Re:Instagram deprecates majority of their API
by bkanber on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:04PM
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Yes -- the headline of this post does not accurately convey how extreme this move was. It should have read "abruptly shut down".
We've been scrambling to get migrated to the Instagram Graph API, as we have a lot of paying businesses using our app to manage their Instagram presence, and that's now not possible with the 'deprecation' of the API.
What's worse is, we can't even migrate to the Instagram Graph API, as Facebook has: 1. Temporarily stopped app reviews, so there's no way for us to go live with our Instagram Permissions on FB Graph API. 2. Blocked access to the Instagram Graph API, even for our development and staging apps.
So they expect us to migrate to the new Graph API, but there's no way to do it since we can't even develop and test the API given that access is blocked.
Their change log reads "deprecated immediately" which is silly, but should be read as "we don't know what 'deprecated' means and are retiring these APIs immediately."