---
swagger: '2.0'
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# API Information #
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info:
version: v1
title: Instagram API
description: |
The first version of the Instagram API is an exciting step forward towards
making it easier for users to have open access to their data. We created it
so that you can surface the amazing content Instagram users share every
second, in fun and innovative ways.
Build something great!
Once you've
[registered your client](http://instagram.com/developer/register/) it's easy
to start requesting data from Instagram.
All endpoints are only accessible via https and are located at
`api.instagram.com`. For instance: you can grab the most popular photos at
the moment by accessing the following URL with your client ID
(replace CLIENT-ID with your own):
https://api.instagram.com/v1/media/popular?client_id=CLIENT-ID
```
You're best off using an access_token for the authenticated user for each
endpoint, though many endpoints don't require it.
In some cases an access_token will give you more access to information, and
in all cases, it means that you are operating under a per-access_token limit
vs. the same limit for your single client_id.
## Limits
Be nice. If you're sending too many requests too quickly, we'll send back a
`503` error code (server unavailable).
You are limited to 5000 requests per hour per `access_token` or `client_id`
overall. Practically, this means you should (when possible) authenticate
users so that limits are well outside the reach of a given user.
## Deleting Objects
We do our best to have all our URLs be
[RESTful](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer).
Every endpoint (URL) may support one of four different http verbs. GET
requests fetch information about an object, POST requests create objects,
PUT requests update objects, and finally DELETE requests will delete
objects.
Since many old browsers don't support PUT or DELETE, we've made it easy to
fake PUTs and DELETEs. All you have to do is do a POST with _method=PUT or
_method=DELETE as a parameter and we will treat it as if you used PUT or
DELETE respectively.
## Structure
### The Envelope
Every response is contained by an envelope. That is, each response has a
predictable set of keys with which you can expect to interact:
```json
{
"meta": {
"code": 200
},
"data": {
...
},
"pagination": {
"next_url": "...",
"next_max_id": "13872296"
}
}
```
#### META
The meta key is used to communicate extra information about the response to
the developer. If all goes well, you'll only ever see a code key with value
200. However, sometimes things go wrong, and in that case you might see a
response like:
```json
{
"meta": {
"error_type": "OAuthException",
"code": 400,
"error_message": "..."
}
}
```
#### DATA
The data key is the meat of the response. It may be a list or dictionary,
but either way this is where you'll find the data you requested.
#### PAGINATION
Sometimes you just can't get enough. For this reason, we've provided a
convenient way to access more data in any request for sequential data.
Simply call the url in the next_url parameter and we'll respond with the
next set of data.
```json
{
...
"pagination": {
"next_url": "https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/puppy/media/recent?access_token=fb2e77d.47a0479900504cb3ab4a1f626d174d2d&max_id=13872296",
"next_max_id": "13872296"
}
}
```
On views where pagination is present, we also support the "count" parameter.
Simply set this to the number of items you'd like to receive. Note that the
default values should be fine for most applications - but if you decide to
increase this number there is a maximum value defined on each endpoint.
### JSONP
If you're writing an AJAX application, and you'd like to wrap our response
with a callback, all you have to do is specify a callback parameter with
any API call:
```
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/coffee/media/recent?access_token=fb2e77d.47a0479900504cb3ab4a1f626d174d2d&callback=callbackFunction
```
Would respond with:
```js
callbackFunction({
...
});
```
name: Relationships
description: |
Relationships are expressed using the following terms:
outgoing_status: Your relationship to the user. Can be "follows",
"requested", "none".
incoming_status: A user's relationship to you. Can be "followed_by",
"requested_by", "blocked_by_you", "none".
name: Media
description: |
At this time, uploading via the API is not possible. We made a conscious
choice not to add this for the following reasons:
Instagram is about your life on the go – we hope to encourage photos
from within the app.
We want to fight spam & low quality photos. Once we allow uploading
from other sources, it's harder to control what comes into the Instagram
ecosystem. All this being said, we're working on ways to ensure users
have a consistent and high-quality experience on our platform.
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securityDefinitions:
oauth:
type: oauth2
flow: implicit
authorizationUrl: https://instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=CLIENT-ID&redirect_uri=REDIRECT-URI&response_type=token
scopes:
basic: |
to read any and all data related to a user (e.g. following/followed-by
lists, photos, etc.) (granted by default)
comments: to create or delete comments on a user’s behalf
relationships: to follow and unfollow users on a user’s behalf
likes: to like and unlike items on a user’s behalf
key:
type: apiKey
in: query
name: access_token
security:
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parameters:
user-id:
name: user-id
in: path
description: The user identifier number
type: number
required: true
tag-name:
name: tag-name
in: path
description: Tag name
type: string
required: true
Users
description: Get basic information about a user.
responses:
200:
description: The user object
schema:
type: object
properties:
data:
$ref: '#/definitions/User'
/users/self/feed:
get:
tags:
Users
description: See the authenticated user's feed.
parameters:
name: count
in: query
description: Count of media to return.
type: integer
name: max_id
in: query
description: Return media earlier than this max_id.s
type: integer
name: min_id
in: query
description: Return media later than this min_id.
Users
responses:
200:
description: |
Get the most recent media published by a user. To get the most recent
media published by the owner of the access token, you can use self
instead of the user-id.
schema:
type: object
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/Media'
parameters:
name: count
in: query
description: Count of media to return.
type: integer
name: max_timestamp
in: query
description: Return media before this UNIX timestamp.
type: integer
name: min_timestamp
in: query
description: Return media after this UNIX timestamp.
type: integer
name: min_id
in: query
description: Return media later than this min_id.
type: string
name: max_id
in: query
description: Return media earlier than this max_id.
type: string
/users/self/media/liked:
get:
tags:
Users
description: |
See the list of media liked by the authenticated user.
Private media is returned as long as the authenticated user
has permissionto view that media. Liked media lists are only
available for the currently authenticated user.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/Media'
parameters:
name: count
in: query
description: Count of media to return.
type: integer
name: max_like_id
in: query
description: Return media liked before this id.
type: integer
/users/search:
get:
tags:
Users
description: Search for a user by name.
parameters:
name: count
in: query
description: Number of users to return.
type: string
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/MiniProfile'
/users/{user-id}/follows:
parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/user-id'
get:
tags:
Relationships
description: Get the list of users this user follows.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/MiniProfile'
/users/{user-id}/followed-by:
parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/user-id'
get:
tags:
Relationships
description: Get the list of users this user is followed by.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/MiniProfile'
/users/self/requested-by:
get:
tags:
Relationships
description: |
List the users who have requested this user's permission to follow.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
properties:
meta:
properties:
code:
type: integer
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/MiniProfile'
/users/{user-id}/relationship:
parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/user-id'
post:
tags:
Relationships
description: |
Modify the relationship between the current user and thetarget user.
security:
oauth:
relationships
parameters:
name: action
in: body
description: One of follow/unfollow/block/unblock/approve/ignore.
schema:
type: string
enum:
name: media-id
in: path
description: The media ID
type: integer
required: true
get:
tags:
Media
description: |
Get information about a media object.
The returned type key will allow you to differentiate between image
and video media.
Note: if you authenticate with an OAuth Token, you will receive the
user_has_liked key which quickly tells you whether the current user
has liked this media item.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
$ref: '#/definitions/Media'
/media1/{shortcode}: #FIXME: correct path is /media/{shortcode}
parameters:
name: shortcode
in: path
description: The media shortcode
type: string
required: true
get:
tags:
Media
description: |
This endpoint returns the same response as GET/media/media-id.
A media object's shortcode can be found in its shortlink URL.
An example shortlink is http://instagram.com/p/D/
Its corresponding shortcode is D.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
$ref: '#/definitions/Media'
/media/search:
get:
tags:
Media
description: |
Search for media in a given area. The default time span is set to 5
days. The time span must not exceed 7 days. Defaults time stamps cover
the last 5 days. Can return mix of image and video types.
parameters:
name: LAT
description: |
Latitude of the center search coordinate. If used, lng is required.
type: number
in: query
name: MIN_TIMESTAMP
description: |
A unix timestamp. All media returned will be taken later than
this timestamp.
type: integer
in: query
name: LNG
description: |
Longitude of the center search coordinate. If used, lat is required.
type: number
in: query
name: MAX_TIMESTAMP
description: |
A unix timestamp. All media returned will be taken earlier than this
timestamp.
type: integer
in: query
name: DISTANCE
description: Default is 1km (distance=1000), max distance is 5km.
type: integer
maximum: 5000
default: 1000
in: query
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
description: List of all media with added distance property
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
allOf:
$ref: '#/definitions/Media'
properties:
distance:
type: number
/media/popular:
get:
tags:
Media
description: |
Get a list of what media is most popular at the moment.
Can return mix of image and video types.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/Media'
/media/{media-id}/comments:
parameters:
name: media-id
in: path
description: Media ID
type: integer
required: true
get:
tags:
Comments
description: |
Get a list of recent comments on a media object.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
properties:
meta:
properties:
code:
type: number
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/Comment'
post:
tags:
Comments
Media
description: |
Create a comment on a media object with the following rules:
The total length of the comment cannot exceed 300 characters.
The comment cannot contain more than 4 hashtags.
The comment cannot contain more than 1 URL.
The comment cannot consist of all capital letters.
security:
oauth:
comments
parameters:
name: TEXT
description: |
Text to post as a comment on the media object as specified in
media-id.
in: body
schema:
type: number
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
properties:
meta:
properties:
code:
type: number
data:
type: object
delete:
tags:
Comments
description: |
Remove a comment either on the authenticated user's media object or
authored by the authenticated user.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
properties:
meta:
properties:
code:
type: number
data:
type: object
/media/{media-id}/likes:
parameters:
name: media-id
in: path
description: Media ID
type: integer
required: true
get:
tags:
Likes
Media
description: |
Get a list of users who have liked this media.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
properties:
meta:
properties:
code:
type: number
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/Like'
post:
tags:
Likes
description: Set a like on this media by the currently authenticated user.
security:
oauth:
comments
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
properties:
meta:
properties:
code:
type: number
data:
type: object
delete:
tags:
Likes
description: |
Remove a like on this media by the currently authenticated user.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
properties:
meta:
properties:
code:
type: number
data:
type: object
/tags/{tag-name}:
parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/tag-name'
get:
tags:
Tags
description: Get information about a tag object.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
$ref: '#/definitions/Tag'
/tags/{tag-name}/media/recent:
parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/tag-name'
get:
tags:
Tags
description: |
Get a list of recently tagged media. Use the max_tag_id and
min_tag_id parameters in the pagination response to paginate through
these objects.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/Tag'
/tags/search:
get:
tags:
Tags
parameters:
name: q
description: |
A valid tag name without a leading #. (eg. snowy, nofilter)
in: query
type: string
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
properties:
meta:
properties:
code:
type: integer
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/Tag'
Location
description: Get information about a location.
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
properties:
data:
$ref: '#/definitions/Location'
Media
description: Get a list of recent media objects from a given location.
parameters:
name: max_timestamp
in: query
description: Return media before this UNIX timestamp.
type: integer
name: min_timestamp
in: query
description: Return media after this UNIX timestamp.
type: integer
name: min_id
in: query
description: Return media later than this min_id.
type: string
name: max_id
in: query
description: Return media earlier than this max_id.
type: string
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/Media'
/locations/search:
get:
tags:
Location
description: Search for a location by geographic coordinate.
parameters:
name: distance
in: query
description: Default is 1000m (distance=1000), max distance is 5000.
type: integer
name: facebook_places_id
in: query
description: |
Returns a location mapped off of a Facebook places id. If used, a
Foursquare id and lat, lng are not required.
type: integer
name: foursquare_id
in: query
description: |
returns a location mapped off of a foursquare v1 api location id.
If used, you are not required to use lat and lng. Note that this
method is deprecated; you should use the new foursquare IDs with V2
of their API.
type: integer
name: lat
in: query
description: |
atitude of the center search coordinate. If used, lng is required.
type: number
name: lng
in: query
description: |
ongitude of the center search coordinate. If used, lat is required.
type: number
name: foursquare_v2_id
in: query
description: |
Returns a location mapped off of a foursquare v2 api location id. If
used, you are not required to use lat and lng.
type: integer
responses:
200:
description: OK
schema:
type: object
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/definitions/Location'
/geographies/{geo-id}/media/recent:
parameters:
name: geo-id
in: path
description: Geolocation ID
type: integer
required: true
get:
description: |
Get recent media from a geography subscription that you created.
Note: You can only access Geographies that were explicitly created
by your OAuth client. Check the Geography Subscriptions section of the
real-time updates page.
When you create a subscription to some geography
that you define, you will be returned a unique geo-id that can be used
in this query. To backfill photos from the location covered by this
geography, use the media search endpoint
.
parameters:
name: count
in: query
description: Max number of media to return.
type: integer
name: min_id
in: query
description: Return media before this min_id.
type: integer
responses:
200:
description: OK
* Version:
* Browser/OS:
**Issue**
On the sample Instagram API, clicking "Generate Server > Rails" results in the following README file:
```markdown
# Swagger for Rails 5
This is a project to provide Swagger support inside the [Sinatra](http://rubyonrails.org/) framework.
...
The offending part sentence is "... support inside the [Sinatra](http://rubyonrails.org/) framework" .. pretty sure you meant "Rails".
Swagger File
termsOfService: http://instagram.com/about/legal/terms/api
################################################################################
Host, Base Path, Schemes and Content Types
################################################################################ host: api.instagram.com basePath: /v1 schemes:
################################################################################
Tags
################################################################################ tags:
name: Relationships description: | Relationships are expressed using the following terms:
outgoing_status: Your relationship to the user. Can be "follows", "requested", "none". incoming_status: A user's relationship to you. Can be "followed_by", "requested_by", "blocked_by_you", "none".
name: Media description: | At this time, uploading via the API is not possible. We made a conscious choice not to add this for the following reasons:
################################################################################
Security
################################################################################ securityDefinitions: oauth: type: oauth2 flow: implicit authorizationUrl: https://instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=CLIENT-ID&redirect_uri=REDIRECT-URI&response_type=token scopes: basic: | to read any and all data related to a user (e.g. following/followed-by lists, photos, etc.) (granted by default) comments: to create or delete comments on a user’s behalf relationships: to follow and unfollow users on a user’s behalf likes: to like and unlike items on a user’s behalf key: type: apiKey in: query name: access_token security:
################################################################################
Parameters
################################################################################ parameters: user-id: name: user-id in: path description: The user identifier number type: number required: true tag-name: name: tag-name in: path description: Tag name type: string required: true
################################################################################
Paths
################################################################################ paths: /users/{user-id}: parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/user-id' get: security:
/users/self/feed: get: tags:
name: min_id in: query description: Return media later than this min_id.
type: integer responses: 200: description: OK schema: type: object properties: data: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/Media'
/users/{user-id}/media/recent: parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/user-id' get: tags:
self
instead of theuser-id
. schema: type: object properties: data: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/Media' parameters:/users/self/media/liked: get: tags:
/users/search: get: tags:
/users/{user-id}/follows: parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/user-id' get: tags:
/users/{user-id}/followed-by: parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/user-id' get: tags:
/users/self/requested-by: get: tags:
/users/{user-id}/relationship: parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/user-id' post: tags:
name: action in: body description: One of follow/unfollow/block/unblock/approve/ignore. schema: type: string enum:
responses: 200: description: OK schema: properties: data: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/MiniProfile'
/media/{media-id}: parameters:
name: media-id in: path description: The media ID type: integer required: true get: tags:
Media description: | Get information about a media object. The returned type key will allow you to differentiate between
image
andvideo
media.Note: if you authenticate with an OAuth Token, you will receive the
user_has_liked
key which quickly tells you whether the current user has liked this media item. responses: 200: description: OK schema: $ref: '#/definitions/Media'/media1/{shortcode}: #FIXME: correct path is /media/{shortcode} parameters:
name: shortcode in: path description: The media shortcode type: string required: true get: tags:
Media description: | This endpoint returns the same response as GET
/media/media-id
.A media object's shortcode can be found in its shortlink URL. An example shortlink is
http://instagram.com/p/D/
Its corresponding shortcode is D.responses: 200: description: OK schema: $ref: '#/definitions/Media'
/media/search: get: tags:
Media description: | Search for media in a given area. The default time span is set to 5 days. The time span must not exceed 7 days. Defaults time stamps cover the last 5 days. Can return mix of image and video types.
parameters:
distance
property properties: data: type: array items: allOf:/media/popular: get: tags:
/media/{media-id}/comments: parameters:
name: media-id in: path description: Media ID type: integer required: true get: tags:
Comments description: | Get a list of recent comments on a media object. responses: 200: description: OK schema: properties: meta: properties: code: type: number data: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/Comment' post: tags:
Comments
Media description: | Create a comment on a media object with the following rules:
The total length of the comment cannot exceed 300 characters.
The comment cannot contain more than 4 hashtags.
The comment cannot contain more than 1 URL.
The comment cannot consist of all capital letters. security:
oauth:
name: TEXT description: | Text to post as a comment on the media object as specified in media-id. in: body schema: type: number responses: 200: description: OK schema: type: object properties: meta: properties: code: type: number data: type: object delete: tags:
Comments description: | Remove a comment either on the authenticated user's media object or authored by the authenticated user. responses: 200: description: OK schema: type: object properties: meta: properties: code: type: number data: type: object
/media/{media-id}/likes: parameters:
name: media-id in: path description: Media ID type: integer required: true get: tags:
/tags/{tag-name}: parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/tag-name' get: tags:
/tags/{tag-name}/media/recent: parameters:
$ref: '#/parameters/tag-name' get: tags:
max_tag_id
andmin_tag_id
parameters in the pagination response to paginate through these objects. responses: 200: description: OK schema: properties: data: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/Tag'/tags/search: get: tags:
/locations/{location-id}: parameters:
name: location-id description: Location ID in: path type: integer required: true get: tags:
/locations/{location-id}/media/recent: parameters:
name: location-id description: Location ID in: path type: integer required: true get: tags:
/locations/search: get: tags:
Location description: Search for a location by geographic coordinate. parameters:
name: distance in: query description: Default is 1000m (distance=1000), max distance is 5000. type: integer
name: facebook_places_id in: query description: | Returns a location mapped off of a Facebook places id. If used, a Foursquare id and lat, lng are not required. type: integer
name: foursquare_id in: query description: | returns a location mapped off of a foursquare v1 api location id. If used, you are not required to use lat and lng. Note that this method is deprecated; you should use the new foursquare IDs with V2 of their API. type: integer
name: lat in: query description: | atitude of the center search coordinate. If used, lng is required. type: number
name: lng in: query description: | ongitude of the center search coordinate. If used, lat is required. type: number
name: foursquare_v2_id in: query description: | Returns a location mapped off of a foursquare v2 api location id. If used, you are not required to use lat and lng. type: integer responses: 200: description: OK schema: type: object properties: data: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/Location'
/geographies/{geo-id}/media/recent: parameters:
min_id
. type: integer responses: 200: description: OK################################################################################
Definitions
################################################################################ definitions: User: type: object properties: id: type: integer username: type: string full_name: type: string profile_picture: type: string bio: type: string website: type: string counts: type: object properties: media: type: integer follows: type: integer follwed_by: type: integer Media: type: object properties: created_time: description: Epoc time (ms) type: integer type: type: string filter: type: string tags: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/Tag' id: type: integer user: $ref: '#/definitions/MiniProfile' users_in_photo: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/MiniProfile' location: $ref: '#/definitions/Location' comments:: type: object properties: count: type: integer data: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/Comment' likes: type: object properties: count: type: integer data: type: array items: $ref: '#/definitions/MiniProfile' images: properties: low_resolution: $ref: '#/definitions/Image' thumbnail: $ref: '#/definitions/Image' standard_resolution: $ref: '#/definitions/Image' videos: properties: low_resolution: $ref: '#/definitions/Image' standard_resolution: $ref: '#/definitions/Image' Location: type: object properties: id: type: string name: type: string latitude: type: number longitude: type: number Comment: type: object properties: id: type: string created_time: type: string text: type: string from: $ref: '#/definitions/MiniProfile' Like: type: object properties: user_name: type: string first_name: type: string last_name: type: string type: type: string id: type: string Tag: type: object properties: media_count: type: integer name: type: string Image: type: object properties: width: type: integer height: type: integer url: type: string MiniProfile: type: object description: A shorter version of User for likes array properties: user_name: type: string full_name: type: string id: type: integer profile_picture: type: string
The offending part sentence is "... support inside the [Sinatra](http://rubyonrails.org/) framework" .. pretty sure you meant "Rails".