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Asked: 2026-06-13T13:27:58+00:00

I’m writing an application that will integrate with Instagram. In order for me to

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I’m writing an application that will integrate with Instagram. In order for me to access some of the API, Instagram requires me to authenticate with oAuth. I’ve never used oAutho before and am completely lost. Specifically, I’m going to be doing this in Python (not my strong language) and, thus, don’t know where to start.

So I know that, before anything, I need to get an oAuth token. The Instagram site gave me a client_secret and a client_id. But it it also gave me a redirect URI. I know these three things are supposed to be used together but I don’t know how.

Since this is a desktop app, will I be required to use some sort of web component?

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’ll probably want a module like https://github.com/Instagram/python-instagram,

    An example from the site

    from instagram.client import InstagramAPI

api = InstagramAPI(client_id='YOUR_CLIENT_ID', client_secret='YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET')
popular_media = api.media_popular(count=20)
for media in popular_media:
    print media.images['standard_resolution'].url
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