Instagram Basic Display API deprecated, all requests return errors

What changed

Meta's Instagram changelog lists the Instagram Basic Display API as deprecated on December 4, 2024, and states that all its requests return errors. The changelog entry does not give an earlier separate announcement date, so the announced date here matches the effective date.

What it means

Any tool that read a personal Instagram account's media through Basic Display stopped working.

Who is affected

Apps and tools that connected personal (non-Business, non-Creator) Instagram accounts through the Basic Display API.

What to do by 4 Dec 2024

Move to the Instagram API with Instagram Login or the Instagram API with Facebook Login, which require a Professional (Business or Creator) account. Personal accounts have no API replacement in this changelog entry.