Question

I develop a small script on localhost (WAMP server, CURL enabled) to retrieve images from Instagram. Based on this script: see tutorial I have also set up the variables on Instagram. I’m not sure what is wrong more specifically or how to solve it (probably with authentication).

• USER ID
• CLIENT ID
• CLIENT SECRET
• WEBSITE URL
• REDIRECT URI

This is my user
http://instagram.com/krondorl

function fetchData($url){
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
  $result = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  return $result;
}

$result = fetchData("https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/280766222/media/recent/?access_token=df04c6989eaf4490bdac1f82554182bb");
$result = json_decode($result);

var_dump($result);

Answer 1

Try the code below which works for me. Make sure your URL is correct.

$json_url  ='https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/280766222/media/recent/?access_token=df04c6989eaf4490bdac1f82554182bb';

// Initializing curl
$ch = curl_init( $json_url );

// Configuring curl options
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Content-type: application/json') 
);

// Setting curl options
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );

// Getting results
$results =  curl_exec($ch); // Getting jSON result string

$json_decoded = json_decode($results);

By the way I check your URL which happens to be incorrect and give me the below error.

{"meta":{"error_type":"OAuthAccessTokenException","code":400,"error_message":"The \"access_token\" provided is invalid."}}

Before you trying the code, try the URL on the browser and see whether the URL is correct.