# Post to Instagram

Now that we have all the tokens, we can start creating posts and sending them to Instagram using the Graph API. The first step is to get the instagram page ID, yes its different from the Facebook page ID.

# Instagram Page ID

You will need:

Facebook page ID: pageID
Long life page access token: pageAccessToken

Send a GET command:

https://graph.facebook.com/v10.0/<pageID>?fields=instagram_business_account&access_token=<pageAccessToken>

You will get in return:

{
    "instagram_business_account": {
        "id": "<instagramPageID>"
    },
    "id": "<pageID>"
}

TIP

You need to convert your Instagram page to a business / professional page and connect it to your facebook page before running this step or you will not get the required results. Sometimes the command only returns the facebook page id - if that happens, double check your connection to the instagram page, and make sure the instagram page has been converted to a business/professional account.

# Post an Image

To post an image, this is what you will need:

Instagram page ID: instagramPageID
HTTPS location of the image you want to post (The image that you want to post needs to be saved in a public location that is accesible via a https link): httpsLocation
A caption for the instagram post: caption
The Facebook page long life access token: pageAccessToken

Send POST request to the following URL

https://graph.facebook.com/v10.0/<instagramPageID>/media

The Payload should be

{
    "image_url": "<httpsLocation>",
    "caption": "<caption>",
    "access_token": "pageAccessToken"
    }

You will get a response with an id, you will need it for the next step.

What you will need:

Instagram page ID
Creation ID - from the last step
Facebook page access token

Send a POST request to the following url:

https://graph.facebook.com/v10.0/<instagramPageID>/media_publish

The payload:

{
  "creation_id": "creation_id",
  "access_token": "pageAccessToken"
}

Now check your instagram, you should see the image and caption posted.

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