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If you want to show content from Instagram, it requires to generate API key on Instagram site and register it on "ARI Social Harvester → Accounts → Instagram accounts" page.



How to generate Instagram access tokens


  1. Open http://instagram.com/developer page and login or register a new account if you don't have it.


  1. Click "Manager Clients" link and then "Register a New Client" link.


  1. Populate fields in the form on the appeared page. Set OAuth redirect_uri parameter to http://localhost value and disabled Disable implicit OAuth parameter:


  1. Copy Client ID parameter:


and open the following link into a browser:



https://instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=CLIENTID&redirect_uri=http://localhost&response_type=token


Just replace CLIENTID with your Client ID.


  1. Click "Authorize" button on the page:



  1. The browser try to load a page with URL which will look like (you can find it in browser's address bar):


http://localhost/#access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN


Copy access token from the URL:



and use client ID and access token to register Instagram account in "ARI Social Harvester" component.