I recently created a PHP-Instagram API called phpinstagram and published it on github. I also set up this API on my own webserver and got quite high response as far as stats are concerned. Yesterday my service stopped to work and it seems as if Instagram is blocking my webservers IP-address.
My blog post about instagram was nothing new as @mislav already documented the unofficial instagram api very detailled.
Today @rennie72 tweeted me that my instagram api is not working anymore (thanks about that!). I then started to try to fix the issue but unfortunately i could not reproduce the error locally. I put my code up on another server and tried to check if the error is because I made a mistake. But as the service works on my local machine and on another webserver I expect instagram to block my original webservers ip-address.
Instagram says in its faq that they are “interested in helping developers build on top of our platform”. But as it seems as if they block ip-addresses I cannot see how they help devs to build on their platform.
I looked onto my AWStats and found that i got 4.4k requests only to my api! I never got that much requests any time before! 🙂
Then i found out that my api was mentioned several times on the net (which I also didn’t know):
http://getsatisfaction.com/instagram/topics/do_i_have_to_have_the_app_to_follow_someone
http://getsatisfaction.com/instagram/topics/links_to_all_my_instagram_photos
Somebody even wrote a request on instagrams zendesk which i cannot access.
All this motivates me to further improve the php-api! I will try to get some time free for this the next months! Lets home Instagram removes my Webservers IP from their block list 🙁
Did you found somthing That help you to fix it?
I still trying and i dont know what to do. All other apps help me for now to see my feeds and my photos but i cant post photos anymore and i cant log to my profile on my iphone. But! From friends iphones it working great im tap my mail and password and its work awesome. I miss it to post from my iphone ind im got crazy. What did you do to fix it? Email me please with some answer?
Thanks alot!
Simply download “UDID faker” from Cydia and change your UDID for the instagram app …. Hope this helps 🙂
where can u dl cydia and is it safe?
where do you get cydia and is there a step by step way of doing it?
Is there a udid faker for androids? The same thing happened to me and I don’t know what to to. I researched and the cydia udid faker is for iPhone, ipad and ipod.