Can't verify instagram account - says my link is not on my profile page

[voss]

I was trying to connect ownyourgram with my instagram account, but I keep getting told that it can't find the link to my website, from my profile page.

I've tried in the 'website' field and the 'bio' field. I was wondering if this could have something to do with instagram using what looks to be their own URL redirecter so the anchor element on the page looks like this:

blog.voss.co

When trying in the 'bio' field on the page, my address does show up, but ownyourgram still doesn't like it.

If I remove the URL from the bio, then the only place on the page I see my actual URL, protocol and all, is in what looks to be the JSON object called window._sharedData.

Is ownyourgram able to parse the JSON on the page for the URL back to my page?

[aaronpk]

That's really strange, I can't tell why this wouldn't be working. OwnYourGram actually makes a request to this undocumented JSON version of your profile URL:

https://www.instagram.com/l3traset/?__a=1

I see your address in there just fine:

"external_url": "https://blog.voss.co/"

I just did some debugging and it looks like it's working fine now. Did you change anything between filing this issue and about 5 minutes ago? spoke too soon, still working on it.

[aaronpk]

I figured it out :joy:

On your website you link to the instagram account "letraset" with an e instead of a 3.

[voss]

Oh boy do I feel dumb. Thanks Aaron, sorry for wasting your time!

[voss]

All fixed now, and working.

[aaronpk]

I just pushed a change to the error message that shows you the instagram username, so hopefully this will be easier to spot in the future!