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Does anyone have any clue why Instagram has reduced their hourly API request limit from 5000 to just 200? Is this a bug or the new normal? Do instagram partners undergo the same lowering of rate limit?
The page on rate limits in the documentation is a broken link.
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To summarize, Basically Instagram API is shutting down faster than speed of light right now. Migrate your apps to FB-instagram-API to keep your business or apps running
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Instagram gives every third-party application connected to its API a limit of how many times it can call their data. They have now reduced their API limit from 5,000 calls per hour to 200 calls per hour.
When a rate limit is exceeded, the manager does not process requests until the call rate falls below all rate limits. When a call is made and an API rate limit is exceeded, the response code is 429 with the message Too many API requests .
Instagram has changed the number of requests that any company using the INstagram API, including Livefyre, can make from 5,000 requests per hour per token to 200 requests an hour per token. This is known as rate limiting. A token is the same as an Instagram account.
Yes, from what I think are updated Facebook docs.
Rate Limiting
The Instagram API uses the same rate limiting as the Graph API (200 calls per user per hour) with one exception: the /media/comments edge limits writes to 60 writes per user per hour. Please refer to the Graph API's rate limiting documentation for more information.
Facebook documentation
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Seems to be in relation to trying to clean up privacy and user data usage.
TechCrunch article - https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/02/instagram-api-limit/
Without warning, Instagram has broken many of the unofficial apps built on its platform. This weekend it surprised developers with a massive reduction in how much data they can pull from the Instagram API, shrinking the API limit from 5,000 to 200 calls per user per hour. Apps that help people figure out if their followers follow them back or interact with them, analyze their audiences or find relevant hashtags are now quickly running into their API limits, leading to broken functionality and pissed off users.
Two sources confirmed the new limits to TechCrunch, and developers are complaining about the situation on StackOverflow.
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