Instagram API Platform is being deprecated

[olsona]

Per https://www.instagram.com/developer/:
"To continuously improve Instagram users' privacy and security, we are accelerating the deprecation of Instagram API Platform, making the following changes effective immediately. We understand that this may affect your business or services, and we appreciate your support in keeping our platform secure.

These capabilities will be disabled immediately (previously set for July 31, 2018 or December 11, 2018 deprecation). The following will be deprecated according to the timeline we shared previously:

Public Content - all remaining capabilities to read public media on a user's behalf on December 11, 2018
Basic - to read a user’s own profile info and media in early 2020
For your reference, information on the new Instagram Graph API."

[lisad]

It would be good to remove references to the Instagram API in the DTP code. This cleanup would be more documentation and code cleanup rather than a functional change, because the effective code has already moved on from the old Instagram API.

As for an exporter to the new public APIs, that would be possible for somebody to write but it's not on anybody's work list right now, so this issue will be resolved when the old API usage is cleaned up.