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Comment by tcdent | Hacker News Reader

In addition to other major legal restrictions, the latest API update crossed a line for accessing your own posts; now you can only retrieve 20 of the most recent entries and pagination has been disabled.

Yes, Instagram legally owns your data, but now they are actively preventing you from accessing it as well.

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Isn't that only for applications in sandbox mode?

Yes, only in sandbox mode. Once your app goes live, the 20 post limit is removed.

Have you gone through the approval process? The accepted use cases are very restrictive, and specifically do not support allowing you to access more than 20 of your own posts.

    "I want to display hashtag content and public content on my website."

    "This use case is not supported. We do not approve the public_content
    permission for one-off projects such as displaying hashtag based 
    content on your website. As alternative solution, you can show your own 
    Instagram content, or find a company that offers this type of service 
    (content discover, moderation, and display)."

That's kind of bullshit on their part.

This is the kind of thing that causes people to circumvent their API management layer...

Damn. I have several personal scripts related to aggregate and backing up my Instagram account that will break from this. It sucks that accessing your own data is blocked by their approval process [which does not approve everything].

Are you implying that the /users/self/media/recent endpoint now ignores the count, min_id and max_id parameters?

It appears that the result set is overridden in sandbox mode.

https://www.instagram.com/developer/sandbox/

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