{"id":15343,"date":"2011-02-25T12:11:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T11:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=15343"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:04:04","slug":"instagram-releases-official-public-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/instagram-releases-official-public-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram releases official public API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photo-sharing mobile app <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.en.softonic.com\/phones\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a>, launched only a few months ago has just released its <strong>official real-time API<\/strong>. Instagram is not the first of its kind to open a public API \u2013 its direct competitor <a href=\"http:\/\/picplz.en.softonic.com\/phones\">PicPlz<\/a> already took this step \u2013 but in any case this is great news for the two million people who are sharing pictures and comments on the popular photo sharing network.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15344\" title=\"instagram\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/instagram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/instagram.jpg 400w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/instagram-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Instagram API, third-party developers will be able to create new apps and tools based on the photos that are being published to Instagram. The API is read-only at the moment, and enables developers to grab images according to tags, locations and geographies as they\u2019re posted to the network.<\/p>\n<p>The Instagram API is an important stage in the spreading of this app \u2013 currently only available for the iPhone \u2013 to other platforms and applications. You can already see it in action in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodspotting.com\">Foodspotting<\/a>, a food-sharing app, and <a href=\"http:\/\/dropbox.en.softonic.com\/\">Dropbox<\/a>, a file-storage service. The first one will display all your Instagram photos tagged with <em>#food<\/em> or <em>#foodspotting<\/em>, while the second one will create an automatic backup copy of your Instagram images in the cloud. Other apps and services that plan to make use of Instagram\u2019s API soon are <a href=\"http:\/\/flipboard.en.softonic.com\/phones\">Flipboard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/\">About.me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe really wanted to push our API to the next level to support a new kind of interaction around photos \u2014 one that supported the real-time nature of the content that people create on Instagram. We\u2019re really excited about creating a more open platform. We will continue to focus on building our own application for Android, but we see the API as a way to reach more users on more platforms right now\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photo-sharing mobile app Instagram, launched only a few months ago has just released its official real-time API. Instagram is not the first of its kind to open a public API \u2013 its direct competitor PicPlz already took this step \u2013 but in any case this is great news for the two million people who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/instagram-releases-official-public-api\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instagram releases official public API&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2354],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-15343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectioninstagram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334413,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions\/334413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=15343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}