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Re:Instagram deprecates majority of their API by dvt on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:17PM (#16757964)
Everyone knew this was going to happen, it's under the "Graph API" umbrella now: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/overview/

(Not sure if this is related to the Cambridge Analytica situation. Maybe the timeline was sped up, but IG's APIs have been deprecating for the past 2-3 years now.)

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Re:Instagram deprecates majority of their API by bkanber on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:48PM (#16758311)
The problem is that they threw out the deprecation schedule that they originally published and immediately retired/shutdown many endpoints with no prior announcements. Not even Instagram Partners were notified.

For those reasons, I absolutely believe it was related to the Cambridge Analytica situation.

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Re:Instagram deprecates majority of their API by dvt on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:55PM (#16758386)
Gotcha, I do remember seeing the deprecation schedule (some stuff was late 2018), so it was definitely sped up.
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Re:Instagram deprecates majority of their API by openmosix on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:59PM (#16758432)
It seems like - the deprecation has been announced as part of the overall effort of locking users' data - https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access...
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