Param user_id is not a valid Instagram User ID for HTTP GET

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I am using the Instagram API and I'm having some small roadblocks. I already got my Access Token working on the Graph API but the user_id I'm feeding it seems to not be working, I'm retrieving the ID from Otzberg using the app-linked Instagram account's username, but I'm not sure it's the right one.

Here's the query:

https://graph.facebook.com/ig_hashtag_search?user_id={USER_ID}&q={HASHTAG}&access_token={ACCESS_TOKEN}

Any advice?

hashtag instagram-api userid oauth
2 Answers
  1. You had get legacy instagram user id from Otzberg. This user id had work with old instagram API. When you call your endpoint with this user id you should get message : Param user_id is not a valid Instagram User ID .
  2. For use ig_hashtag_search you should get permission for Instagram Public Content Access
  3. You should use IG User#id with this endpoint. You can search user id from business-discovery(GET /{ig-user-id}/business_discovery).

P.S. new ig-user-id - usually it 17+/- numbers.

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