IG User Media

Represents a collection of IG Media objects on an IG User.

Creating

POST /<YOUR_APP_USERS_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID>/media

• Create an image, carousel, story or reel IG Container for use in the post publishing process. See the Content Publishing guide for complete publishing steps.

Steps to publish a media object include the following:

1. Create a container
2. Upload the media to the container
3. Publish the container

Limitations

General Limitations

• Containers expire after 24 hours
• An Instagram account can only create 400 containers within a rolling 24 hour period
• If the Page connected to the targeted Instagram professional account requires Page Publishing Authorization (PPA), PPA must be completed or the request will fail
• If the Page connected to the targeted Instagram professional account requires two-factor authentication, the Facebook User must also have performed two-factor authentication or the request will fail
• We strongly recommended the HTTP IETF standard character set for URLs, URLs that contain only US ASCII characters, or the request will fail

Reels Limitations

• Reels cannot appear in carousels
• Account privacy settings are respected upon publish. For example, if Allow remixing is enabled, published reels will have remixing enabled upon publish but remixing can be disabled on published reels manually through the Instagram app.
• Music tagging is only available for original audio.

Story Limitations

• Stories expire after 24 hours.
• Support either video URL or Reels URL but not both.
• Publishing stickers (i.e., link, poll, location) is not supported.

Requirements

Image Specifications

• Format: JPEG
• File size: 8 MB maximum.
• Aspect ratio: Must be within a 4:5 to 1.91:1 range
• Minimum width: 320 (will be scaled up to the minimum if necessary)
• Maximum width: 1440 (will be scaled down to the maximum if necessary)
• Height: Varies, depending on width and aspect ratio
• Color Space: sRGB. Images using other color spaces will have their color spaces converted to sRGB.

Reel Specifications

The following are the specifications for Reels:

• Container: MOV or MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14), no edit lists, moov atom at the front of the file.
• Audio codec: AAC, 48khz sample rate maximum, 1 or 2 channels (mono or stereo).
• Video codec: HEVC or H264, progressive scan, closed GOP, 4:2:0 chroma subsampling.
• Frame rate: 23-60 FPS.
• Picture size:

  • Maximum columns (horizontal pixels): 1920
  • Required aspect ratio is between 0.01:1 and 10:1 but we recommend 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space.
• Video bitrate: VBR, 25Mbps maximum
• Audio bitrate: 128kbps
• Duration: 15 mins maximum, 3 seconds minimum
• File size: 1GB maximum

The following are the specifications for a Reels cover photo:

• Format: JPEG
• File size: 8MB maximum
• Color Space: sRGB. Images that use other color spaces will be converted to sRGB.
• Aspect ratio: We recommend 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space. If the aspect ratio of the original image is not 9:16, we crop the image and use the middle most 9:16 rectangle as the cover photo for the reel. If you share a reel to your feed, we crop the image and use the middle most 1:1 square as the cover photo for your feed post.

Story Image Specifications

• Format: JPEG
• File size: 8 MB maximum.
• Aspect ratio: We recommended 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space
• Color Space: sRGB. Images using other color spaces will have their color spaces converted to sRGB

Story Video Specifications

• Container: MOV or MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14), no edit lists, moov atom at the front of the file.
• Audio codec: AAC, 48khz sample rate maximum, 1 or 2 channels (mono or stereo).
• Video codec: HEVC or H264, progressive scan, closed GOP, 4:2:0 chroma subsampling.
• Frame rate: 23-60 FPS.
• Picture size:

  • Maximum columns (horizontal pixels): 1920
  • Required aspect ratio is between 0.1:1 and 10:1 but we recommend 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space
• Video bitrate: VBR, 25Mbps maximum
• Audio bitrate: 128kbps
• Duration: 60 seconds maximum, 3 seconds minimum
• File size: 100MB maximum

Request Syntax

Image Containers

POST https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/<YOUR_APP_USERS_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID>/media
?image_url=<IMAGE_URL>
&is_carousel_item=<TRUE_OR_FALSE>
&caption=<IMAGE_CAPTION>
&location_id=<LOCATION_PAGE_ID>
&user_tags=<ARRAY_OF_USERS_FOR_TAGGING>>
&product_tags=<ARRAY_OF_PRODUCTS_FOR_TAGGING>
&access_token=<USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>

Reel Containers

Standard upload

POST https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/<YOUR_APP_USERS_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID>/media
?media_type=REELS
&video_url=<REEL_URL>
&caption=<IMAGE_CAPTION>
&share_to_feed=<TRUE_OR_FALSE>
&collaborators=<COLLABORATOR_USERNAMES>
&cover_url=<COVER_URL>
&audio_name=<AUDIO_NAME>
&user_tags=<ARRAY_OF_USERS_FOR_TAGGING>>
&location_id=<LOCATION_PAGE_ID>
&thumb_offset=<THUMB_OFFSET>
&share_to_feed=<TRUE_OR_FALSE>
&access_token=<USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>

Resumable upload session

POST https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/<YOUR_APP_USERS_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID>/media
?media_type=REELS
&upload_type=resumable
&caption=<IMAGE_CAPTION>
&collaborators=<COLLABORATOR_USERNAMES>
&cover_url=<COVER_URL>
&audio_name=<AUDIO_NAME>
&user_tags=<ARRAY_OF_USERS_FOR_TAGGING>>
&location_id=<LOCATION_PAGE_ID>
&thumb_offset=<THUMB_OFFSET>
&access_token=<USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>

On success, an ig-container-id and a uri is returned in the response, which will be used in subsequent steps, such as:

{
  "id": "<IG_CONTAINER_ID>",
  "uri": "https://rupload.facebook.com/ig-api-upload/v21.0/<IG_CONTAINER_ID>"
}

Carousel Containers

Carousel containers only. To create carousel item containers, create image or video containers instead (reels are not supported). See Carousel Posts for complete publishing steps.

Standard upload

POST https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/<YOUR_APP_USERS_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID>/media
?media_type=CAROUSEL
&caption=<IMAGE_CAPTION>
&share_to_feed=<TRUE_OR_FALSE>
&collaborators=<COLLABORATOR_USERNAMES>
&location_id=<LOCATION_PAGE_ID>
&product_tags=<ARRAY_OF_PRODUCTS_FOR_TAGGING>
&children=<ARRAY_OF_CAROUSEL_CONTAINTER_IDS>
&access_token=<USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>

Resumable upload session

POST https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/<YOUR_APP_USERS_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID>/media
?media_type=VIDEO
&is_carousel_item=true
&upload_type=resumable
&access_token=<USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>

On success, an ig-container-id and a uri is returned in the response, which will be used in subsequent steps.

Image Story Containers

POST https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/<YOUR_APP_USERS_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID>/media
?image_url=<IMAGE_URL>
&media_type=STORIES
&access_token=<USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>

Video Story Containers

Standard upload

POST https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/<YOUR_APP_USERS_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID>/media
?video_url=<VIDEO_URL>
&media_type=STORIES
&access_token=<USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>

Resumable upload session

POST https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/<YOUR_APP_USERS_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID>/media
?media_type=STORIES
&upload_type=resumable
&access_token=<USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>

On success, an Instagram container ID and a URI is returned in the response, which will be used in subsequent steps.

Upload a video through resumable upload protocol

• All media_type shares the same flow to upload the video.
• ig-container-id is the ID from the resumable reels, carousel and video container upload session examples above.
• access-token is the same one used in other steps.
• offset is set to the first byte being upload, generally 0.
• file_size is set to the size of your file in bytes.
• Your_file_local_path sets to the file path of your local file, for example, if uploading a file from the Downloads folder on macOS, the path is @Downloads/example.mov.

curl -X POST "https://rupload.facebook.com/ig-api-upload/v21.0/<IG_CONTAINER_ID>" \
     -H "Authorization: OAuth <USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
     -H "offset: 0" \
     -H "file_size: Your_file_size_in_bytes" \
     --data-binary "@Your_local_file_path.extension"

On success, you should see response like this example:

{
  "success":true,
  "message":"Upload successful. ..."
}  

Upload a video from a hosted URL

This service can also support video upload from a hosted URL.

curl -X POST "https://rupload.facebook.com/ig-api-upload/v21.0/<IG_CONTAINER_ID>" \
     -H "Authorization: OAuth <USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
     -H "file_url: <VIDEO_URL>"

Path Parameters

Query String Parameters

Response

A JSON-formatted object containing an IG Container ID which you can use to publish the container.

Video uploads are asynchronous, so receiving a container ID does not guarantee that the upload was successful. To verify that a video has been uploaded, request the status_code field on the IG Container. If its value is FINISHED, the video was uploaded successfully.

{
  "id":"<IG_CONTAINER_ID>"
}

Sample Request

POST graph.facebook.com/17841400008460056/media
  ?image_url=curls//www.example.com/images/bronzed-fonzes.jpg
  &caption=#BronzedFonzes!
  &collaborators= [‘username1’,’username2’]
  &user_tags=[
    {
      username:'kevinhart4real',
      x: 0.5,
      y: 0.8
    },
    {
      username:'therock',
      x: 0.3,
      y: 0.2
    }
  ]

Sample Response

{
  "id": "17889455560051444"
}

Reading

GET /<YOUR_APP_USERS_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID>/media

Get all IG Media on an IG User.

Limitations

• Returns a maximum of 10K of the most recently created media.
• Story IG Media not supported, use the GET /<YOUR_APP_USERS_INSTAGRAM_USER_ID>/stories endpoint instead.

Requirements

Time-based Pagination

This endpoint supports time-based pagination. Include since and until query-string parameters with Unix timestamp or strtotime data values to define a time range.

Sample Request

GET graph.facebook.com/v21.0/17841405822304914/media

Sample Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "17895695668004550"
    },
    {
      "id": "17899305451014820"
    },
    {
      "id": "17896450804038745"
    },
    {
      "id": "17881042411086627"
    },
    {
      "id": "17869102915168123"
    }
  ]
}

Updating

This operation is not supported.

Deleting

This operation is not supported.

See Also

• Error Codes