# Instagram API

Python Client for Instagram API

Repository: https://github.com/facebookarchive/python-instagram
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/instagram-api
Homepage: http://instagram.com/developers/
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-10-01T16:22:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5691, "days_push": 2162, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3071, forks 1077 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:41.607078+00:00)

## What it is
A Python 2/3 client library for the Instagram REST and Search APIs, supporting OAuth2 authentication, media access, and real-time subscriptions. It is officially archived and no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- fetch a user's recent instagram media from python
- get popular instagram photos via the api
- authenticate instagram users with oauth2
- set up instagram real-time subscriptions
- build an instagram integration in python

## When to choose
- you need a legacy Python client for the old Instagram REST API and understand it is unmaintained
- you are maintaining an old codebase already using python-instagram

## When to avoid
- you need access to the current Instagram Graph API, which this library does not support
- you need a maintained or supported library
- you are starting a new project

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-client, auth, sdk
- domain: apis, social-media, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: instagram, social-media-api, oauth2, api-client, archived, python2-python3

## Member repositories
- facebookarchive/python-instagram (sdk) score 10
- facebookarchive/instagram-ruby-gem (sdk) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.607078+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:28:00.218367+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/facebookarchive/python-instagram (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.607078+00:00, sha 669faba864d1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.