Instagram limits access to user data for unofficial apps

If one of the unofficial, third-party Instagram apps you've been using suddenly stopped working properly, it might be because the platform has limited their access to user data in a surprise change to its API. The photo-sharing platform has apparently reduced the number of times developers can pull data from Instagram's API from 5,000 calls per hour to 200 calls per hour. It even cut off some apps' access to its API entirely. Based on discussions posted on Twitter and developer Q&A website Stack Overflow, the change rolled out on Friday last week -- TechCrunch has also confirmed the new limits from a couple of sources.

Via: Recode

Source: TechCrunch

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