Long lived user access token

Default User and Page access tokens are short-lived, expiring in hours, however, you can exchange a short-lived token for a long-lived token.

If you need a long-lived User access token you can generate one from a short-lived User access token. A long-lived token generally lasts about 60 days.

You will need the following:

• A valid User Access Token

• Your App ID

• Your App Secret

App id & secret

User access token

GET https://us-central1-appgregator.cloudfunctions.net/instagram/access-token/

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
name*	String	ft-4
client_id*	String	600957674560496
connection_name*	String	insta-ft-4
client_secret*	String	5732d9f01465...
fb_exchange_token*	String	EAAIikVy3mZCABAE4V0KBCK84ddzqfgXoCGQ0uJoyqr5LQZBZCC5Rn0VLCwRCpn4XvVLltxMZAEZAyCyVThbnwnaOdHR3GuQYZCQjH4PxHo8lu1amZAr4jvGo9Qyvj8azftV5RPRwPkQZAGxxSjnu9nF56pGIeRA75ZAPjGZCfI77fxTxuj9mmAfvrowvqijMT4BaZBmqFw1tHIaw6iJuiWAsNiSDm17lFxN5PZBvypknZB92R4rbSwiUZCwPHRE82WEm4oEZBgZD

Headers

Name	Type	Description
x-api-key*	String	43c464439b5507293ba7b315c9875907

200: OK Success

{
    "access_token": "EAAIikVy3mZCABAMxVG4bnFssvj5TPUFPaYxI690bVTZBKK6oeuAXiIGTmDN7esIqZCwplXPSsMLPX0vKH60bePt0l33xzBoxaYhIhiafcTMU5hbU6Et9asBUmEnxW51uwRAvDNl1uUOCO6AiG9Hkwz158E7Lra5sTXiokAUD02vjCJwAvQZBW3bYRjFCZBqYZD",
    "token_type": "bearer",
    "expires_in": 5180419
}

cURL

curl --location --request GET 'https://us-central1-appgregator.cloudfunctions.net/instagram/access-token?name=ft-4&connection_name=insta-ft-4&client_id=600957674560496&client_secret=600957674560496|NlYvfu75GsFPT5-i04NgpKxftC4&fb_exchange_token=SHORT-LIVED-USER-ACCESS-TOKEN' \
--header 'x-api-key: U2Fsd...'

NodeJs - Axios

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'get',
  url: 'https://us-central1-appgregator.cloudfunctions.net/instagram/access-token?name=ft-4&connection_name=insta-ft-4&client_id=600957674560496&client_secret=600957674560496|NlYvfu75GsFPT5-i04NgpKxftC4&fb_exchange_token=SHORT-LIVED-USER-ACCESS-TOKEN',
  headers: { 
    'x-api-key': 'U2Fsd...'
  }
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

PHP - cURL

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://us-central1-appgregator.cloudfunctions.net/instagram/access-token?name=ft-4&connection_name=insta-ft-4&client_id=600957674560496&client_secret=600957674560496%7CNlYvfu75GsFPT5-i04NgpKxftC4&fb_exchange_token=SHORT-LIVED-USER-ACCESS-TOKEN',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'x-api-key: U2Fsd...'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;