Instagram is accelerating the end…

Instagram is accelerating the end of their current APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways..

Per a notice on https://www.instagram.com/developer/ no new clients can register, and soon some basic functionality will be changed.

We will be reviewing plugins that call these functionalities and, if they are not updated, will close them in order to prevent adverse impact on users.

If you know you’re not going to want to fix this, please email plugins@wordpress.org, provide a link to the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, and tell us you’d like us to close it. We know that Instgram (and Facebook) have been difficult to work with this last year, and fully respect and support your decisions here with regards to your plugins.

Here is Instagram’s announcement:

UPDATE: Starting October 15, 2019, new client registration and permission review on Instagram API platform are discontinued in favor of the Instagram Basic Display API.

To continuously improve Instagram users’ privacy and security, we are accelerating the deprecation of Instagram API Platform, making the following changes effective immediately. We understand that this may affect your business or services, and we appreciate your support in keeping our platform secure.

These capabilities will be disabled immediately (previously set for July 31, 2018 or December 11, 2018 deprecation). The following will be deprecated according to the timeline we shared previously:

  • Public Content – all remaining capabilities to read public media on a user’s behalf on December 11, 2018
  • Basic – to read a user’s own profile info and media in early 2020

For your reference, information on the new Instagram Graph API.

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