Try to get the instagram API
I need help, I am trying to get the instagram api in my application (windows forms) but not successful. My code looks like this:
using (var wb = new WebClient())
{
var data = new NameValueCollection();
data["client_id"] = "client_id";
data["client_secret"] = "client_secret";
data["username"] = "user"
data["password"] = "pass"
data["grant_type"] = "password";
var response = wb.UploadValues("https://api.instagram.com/oauth/access_token", "POST", data);
string json = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(response);
But after running, give me error:
{
"code": 400,
"error_type": "OAuthException",
"error_message": "This client is not xAuth enabled"
}
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From the error description, the values you pass for data["client_id"]
and data["client_secret"]
are not allowed to use the API. Make sure you have your application registered and that you are using the correct two values given to you during registration.
Also make sure your application is eligible to use data["grant_type"] = "password";
. From reading their API password based authentication is not allowed, you must use redirect based authentication to be able to authenticate with your API.
EDIT: Found this in the documentation for Step 3 for Server Side Authentication
grant_type: authorization_code is currently the only supported value
So your grant type password
and passing username and password is definitely a problem.
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