Social & Media

Instagram Graph API OAuth Integration

Connect Instagram Graph API to your application without building and maintaining the OAuth flow.

The Instagram Graph API is Meta's API for Instagram professional accounts. Each user connects their own Instagram Graph API account through your OAuth app. Pathfix manages the authorization flow, stores and refreshes their tokens, and authenticates the requests your application makes to the Instagram Graph API API. What your integration does with that access is up to your code.

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How Pathfix helps

01
OAuth authorization
Pathfix runs the authorization flow with your Instagram Graph API OAuth app, so users approve access on Instagram Graph API’s own consent screen.
02
Token management
Each user’s access and refresh tokens are stored by Pathfix rather than in your application.
03
Token refresh
Where Instagram Graph API issues refresh tokens, Pathfix refreshes them as they expire, so connections keep working after the first authorization.
04
Authenticated API passthrough
Your application sends Instagram Graph API API requests through Pathfix, which adds the connected user’s credentials before passing them on to Instagram Graph API.

You own the Instagram Graph API OAuth application and its credentials, and your code implements the API logic.

Passthrough endpoint for Instagram Graph APIPOST https://labs.pathfix.com/oauth/method/iggraphapi/call

How to get started

1
Register your app with Instagram Graph API
Create an app in Instagram Graph API’s developer settings to get a Client ID and Client Secret. When asked for a redirect URI, enter https://labs.pathfix.com/integrate/command.
2
Add the credentials in Pathfix
In your Pathfix account, add an application, select Instagram Graph API from the providers and enter the Client ID and Client Secret.
3
Choose your scopes
Add only the scopes your integration needs. Instagram Graph API’s developer documentation lists what each scope allows.
4
Test the connection
Use Test Connection to connect an account in the API Playground and run a sample call.
5
Let your users authorize
Add the connect step to your app. Each user signs in to Instagram Graph API and approves the scopes you requested.
6
Call the Instagram Graph API API
Send requests through the Pathfix passthrough API using the provider reference iggraphapi.