Platform Changelog

Dec 11, 2018

Deprecation of Hashtags and Locations endpoints. For details about Hashtag search feature on Instagram Graph API, check here.
  • Hashtags
    • GET /tags/{tag-name}
    • GET /tags/{tag-name}/media/recent
    • GET /tags/search
  • Locations
    • GET /locations/{location-id}
    • GET /locations/{location-id}/media/recent
    • GET /locations/search
    • GET /media/search

April 4, 2018

The following endpoints are deprecated immediately:
  • Follows and Relationships
    • GET /users/self/follows
    • GET /users/self/followed-by
    • GET /users/self/requested-by
    • GET /users/{user-id}/relationship
    • POST /users/{user-id}/relationship
  • Commenting on Public Content
    • GET /media/{media-id}/comments (Deprecation not relevant when fetching comments for self media)
    • POST /media/{media-id}/comments
    • DEL /media/{media-id}/comments/comment-id
  • Media
    • GET /media/{media-id}
    • GET /media/shortcode/{shortcode}
  • Likes
    • GET /media/{media-id}/likes
    • POST /media/{media-id}/likes
    • DEL /media/{media-id}/likes
  • User Search
    • GET /users/{user-id}
    • GET /users/{user-id}/media/recent
    • GET /users/self/media/liked
    • GET /users/search
  • Subscriptions - to receive notifications when media is posted
  • Some information on Public Content returned through hashtag and location search will be removed - Name, Bio, Comments, Commenters, Follower Count, Following Count, Post Count, and Profile Picture

Oct 1, 2017

  • Updated Permission Review - new apps may only request basic permissions.

August 18, 2017

  • Added is_business field to /users/self.

Apr 18, 2017

  • Support for carousel formats.

Jun 1, 2016

Apr 20, 2016

  • Deprecation of foursquare_id and foursquare_v2_id parameters for /location/search.

Nov 17, 2015

  • Updated Platform Policy
  • Permission Review mandatory for every app
  • Apps created before Nov 17, 2015
    • Unaffected by new API behavior until June 1, 2016
    • Have until June 1, 2016 to be approved, or will be switched to Sandbox mode automatically
  • Apps created on or after Nov 17, 2015
    • Start in Sandbox mode for dev & test
    • Need to be reviewed and permission scopes approved before used in production
    • All API endpoints require a valid access_token
    • All API endpoints require a specific permission scope granted by the user
    • New follower_list permission scope
    • New public_content permission scope
    • New rate limits for Sandbox and Live apps
    • Private content only available to content owner
    • Deprecation of /users/self/feed
    • Deprecation of /media/popular
    • Deprecation of /geographies/media/recent
    • Deprecation of Realtime subscriptions for tags, locations and geographies
    • Deprecation of /users/USER-ID/follows and /users/USER-ID/followed-by
    • New endpoints: /users/self, /users/self/follows, /users/self/followed-by
    • API responses containing media objects no longer return the data field in comments and likes nodes.

Sept 3, 2015

  • Support for landscape and portrait formats

Sept 1, 2015

  • Deprecation of signed-headers

Aug 5, 2015

  • Removing pre-filled captions from mobile sharing

May 5, 2015

  • Removed empty 'bio' and 'website' fields from mini user bundles

Apr 14, 2015

  • New guidelines for POSTing likes and relationships
  • Introducing signed-requests

Oct 6, 2014

  • Update to Embedded posts and oEmbed endpoint

Jul 29, 2014

  • /oembed returns correct images when using maxheight or maxwidth parameters
  • /tags/{tagname}/media/recent returns correct pagination parameters max_tag_id and min_tag_id

Jul 19, 2014

  • New guidelines for POSTing comments
  • Comments API access form

Jun 3, 2014

  • Introducing security options to help better secure API requests
  • Revised rate limits on POSTs
  • Support for HTTP 429 Status Code (Rate limit exceeded).
  • Updated Python and Ruby libraries to support new options and limits

May 16, 2014

  • Instagram Python SDK release

Apr 24, 2014

  • Instagram Ruby SDK release