Instagram API deprecation about react-instagram-embed

[iaarnio]

Live demo (https://sugarshin.github.io/react-instagram-embed/) of this library is now returning 400 error.

@sugarshin, any possibility to merge the PR to fix issues people are having with the deprecated API?

[phil-monroe]

I'm actually not a user of this library, but it seems that Facebook is indeed deprecating the embed endpoint that this library is using on October 24, 2020.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram/oembed-legacy

While it looks like it would likely be a simple change to uptake the new OEmbed endpoint, it will require a configured Client Access Token with the requests.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram/oembed/

[iaarnio]

I'm just a user of this library but this Instagram API deprecation does not seem to affect this library. This library uses embedding API which is to be still valid: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram/embedding/

[iaarnio]

I checked the code and this library is using the deprecating API endpoint:

src/index.tsx:
private fetchEmbed(queryParams: string): void {
    this.request = this.createRequestPromise(`https://api.instagram.com/oembed/?${queryParams}`);

Using this API endpoint and the query parameter breaking_change=oembed will result '400 bad request' response.
Also the API endpoint prints out This endpoint is deprecated. Please read https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram/oembed to learn how to migrate your endpoint.

The new API endpoint would be https://graph.facebook.com/v8.0/instagram_oembed/
However, switching to this new API endpoint is a breaking change as it requires access_token to work.
Library user would need to provide it as an URL parameter.

[iaarnio]

There is now PR for this API change too: #242

[sugarshin]

solved: #242