nuget documentation for my nuget package solrevdev.instagrambasicdisplay

Solrevdev.InstagramBasicDisplay

A netstandard2.0 library that consumes the new Instagram Basic Display API.

Installation

To install via nuget using the dotnet cli

dotnet add package Solrevdev.InstagramBasicDisplay

To install via nuget using Visual Studio / Powershell

Install-Package Solrevdev.InstagramBasicDisplay

Examples and GitHub

For sample code showing how to implement this library head over to the GitHub repository.

Facebook and Instagram Setup

Before you begin you will need to create an Instagram client_id and client_secret by creating a Facebook app and configuring it so that it knows your https only redirect_url.

App Configuration

In your .NET Core library or application create an appsettings.json file if one does not already exist and fill out the InstagramSettings section with your Instagram credentials such as client_id, client_secret and redirect_url as mentioned above.

appsettings.json

{
  "Logging": {
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Information",
      "Microsoft": "Warning",
      "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information"
    }
  },
  "AllowedHosts": "*",
  "InstagramCredentials": {
    "Name": "friendly name or your app name can go here - this is passed to Instagram as the user-agent",
    "ClientId": "client-id",
    "ClientSecret": "client-secret",
    "RedirectUrl": "https://localhost:5001/auth/oauth"
  }
}

Common Uses

Get an Instagram User Access Token and permissions from an Instagram user

private readonly InstagramApi _api;

public IndexModel(InstagramApi api)
{
    _api = api;
}

public ActionResult OnGet()
{
    var url = _api.Authorize("anything-passed-here-will-be-returned-as-state-variable");
    return Redirect(url);
}

Then in your RedirectUrl page

private readonly InstagramApi _api;
private readonly ILogger<IndexModel> _logger;

public IndexModel(InstagramApi api, ILogger<IndexModel> logger)
{
    _api = api;
    _logger = logger;
}

// code is passed by instagram, state is whatever you passed in _api.Authorize sent back to you
public async Task<IActionResult> OnGetAsync(string code, string state)
{
    // this returns an access token that will last for 1 hour - short-lived access token
    var response = await _api.AuthenticateAsync(code, state).ConfigureAwait(false);

    // this returns an access token that will last for 60 days - long-lived access token
    // var response = await _api.AuthenticateAsync(code, state, true).ConfigureAwait(false);

    // store in session - see System.Text.Json code below for sample
    HttpContext.Session.Set("Instagram.Response", response);
}

If you want to store the OAuthResponse in HttpContext.Session you can use the new System.Text.Json namespace like this

using System.Text.Json;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
public static class SessionExtensions
{
    public static void Set<T>(this ISession session, string key, T value)
    {
        session.SetString(key, JsonSerializer.Serialize(value));
    }

    public static T Get<T>(this ISession session, string key)
    {
        var value = session.GetString(key);
        return value == null ? default : JsonSerializer.Deserialize<T>(value);
    }
}

Get an Instagram user's profile

private readonly InstagramApi _api;
private readonly ILogger<IndexModel> _logger;

public IndexModel(InstagramApi api, ILogger<IndexModel> logger)
{
    _api = api;
    _logger = logger;
}

// code is passed by instagram, state is whatever you passed in _api.Authorize sent back to you
public async Task<IActionResult> OnGetAsync(string code, string state)
{
    // this returns an access token that will last for 1 hour - short-lived access token
    var response = await _api.AuthenticateAsync(code, state).ConfigureAwait(false);

    // this returns an access token that will last for 60 days - long-lived access token
    // var response = await _api.AuthenticateAsync(code, state, true).ConfigureAwait(false);

    // store and log
    var user = response.User;
    var token = response.AccessToken;

    _logger.LogInformation("UserId: {userid} Username: {username} Media Count: {count} Account Type: {type}", user.Id, user.Username, user.MediaCount, user.AccountType);
    _logger.LogInformation("Access Token: {token}", token);
}

Get an Instagram user's images, videos, and albums

private readonly InstagramApi _api;
private readonly ILogger<IndexModel> _logger;

public List<Media> Media { get; } = new List<Media>();

public IndexModel(InstagramApi api, ILogger<IndexModel> logger)
{
    _api = api;
    _logger = logger;
}

// code is passed by instagram, state is whatever you passed in _api.Authorize sent back to you
public async Task<IActionResult> OnGetAsync(string code, string state)
{
    // this returns an access token that will last for 1 hour - short-lived access token
    var response = await _api.AuthenticateAsync(code, state).ConfigureAwait(false);

    // this returns an access token that will last for 60 days - long-lived access token
    // var response = await _api.AuthenticateAsync(code, state, true).ConfigureAwait(false);

    // store and log
    var media = await _api.GetMediaListAsync(response).ConfigureAwait(false);

    _logger.LogInformation("Initial media response returned with [{count}] records ", media.Data.Count);

    _logger.LogInformation("First caption: {caption}, First media url: {url}",media.Data[0].Caption, media.Data[0].MediaUrl);

    //
    //  toggle the following boolean for a quick and dirty way of getting all a user's media.
    //
    if(false)
    {
        while (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(media?.Paging?.Next))
        {
            var next = media?.Paging?.Next;
            var count = media?.Data?.Count;
            _logger.LogInformation("Getting next page [{next}]", next);

            media = await _api.GetMediaListAsync(next).ConfigureAwait(false);

            _logger.LogInformation("next media response returned with [{count}] records ", count);

            // add to list
            Media.Add(media);
        }

        _logger.LogInformation("The user has a total of {count} items in their Instagram feed", Media.Count);
    }
}

Exchange a short-lived access token for a long-lived access token

private readonly InstagramApi _api;
private readonly ILogger<IndexModel> _logger;

public IndexModel(InstagramApi api, ILogger<IndexModel> logger)
{
    _api = api;
    _logger = logger;
}

// code is passed by instagram, state is whatever you passed in _api.Authorize sent back to you
public async Task<IActionResult> OnGetAsync(string code, string state)
{
    // this returns an access token that will last for 1 hour - short-lived access token
    var response = await _api.AuthenticateAsync(code, state).ConfigureAwait(false);
    _logger.LogInformation("response access token {token}", response.AccessToken);

    var longLived = await _api.GetLongLivedAccessTokenAsync(response).ConfigureAwait(false);
    _logger.LogInformation("longLived access token {token}", longLived.AccessToken);
}