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On technical side: I wonder what APIs this service (and others like Zapier) use. Original Instagram API is all but closed to devs, and the new Facebook APIs are limited and reduced to "business accounts". Any good APIs I've seen are libs that reverse-engineer Instagram's internal APIs and use those.

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Instagram's new API is open to regular users as well (that's what Tweet Photo uses), but I believe it's read-only.

Zapier etc probably have special deals with Facebook.

Thank you! Last time a looked at it a few years ago I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I'll take a look again.

There’s an approval process you need to go through. I wouldn’t recommend it if you can avoid it as you’ll be at the mercy of Facebook.

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