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christiangerdes's avatar

Instagram API without users

Hi,

I currently run a site, where users can create items and sell their personal stuff (like ebay). I'm building a feature, that automatically syncs all items to my sites instagram profile, but I'm stuck. Reading through the Instagram docs, I can only see how to authenticate users and gain access to their account, but that's not what I want. I want to connect my application to MY Instagram profile and not the users' profiles.

Kinda like Algolia Search...

I hope you understand?

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christiangerdes's avatar

If instagram doesn't allow for that functionality, is it then possible to automatically login using my business account and post content behind the scenes?

ohffs's avatar

What is the difference between authenticating a 'user' instagram account and authenticating 'your' account? I'm confused what the issue is.

christiangerdes's avatar

I doesn't want to authenticate any of my users, but I want to post content created by my users on my business instagram account. Hope you understand?

alenabdula's avatar

What @ohffs is saying the "users" part is you. The only question is does API support creating new posts?

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