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Experimenting with the IG API

Script to use the #Instagram #API to authenticate and pull your media

1. Create an IG app:

   

    pip install [python-instagram](https://github.com/facebookarchive/python-instagram)
   

2. Note this library is not actively maintained. get_access_token.py has a bug:

    $ python get_access_token.py
    ...
    instagram.oauth2.OAuth2AuthExchangeError: You must provide a client_id
   

   Patch with this fix or make your own method, e.g. exchange_code_for_access_token.

   Another required fix: when querying my media I got:

    for comment in entry['comments']['data']:
    KeyError: 'data'
   

   Fix here.

Conclusion: probably need to fork this repo or make own wrapper using requests or something.