Known Issues

Instagram made some very big changes in its workflow causing many major troubles.

1. “checkpoint_required” issue. It has been fixed in the plugins version 4.1.1 and API 4.0.37. Please update both plugin and API. More info about the fix here
2. “{“message”: “login_required”, “logout_reason”: 3, “status”: “fail”}” – Fixed in the API 4.0.42.
3. “{“message”: “Bad request”, “status”: “fail”}” – – Fixed in the plugin version 4.1.2 and API 4.0.39
4. “{“authenticated”: true, “user”: true, “status”: “ok”}” – Fixed in the API 4.0.38
5. “{“message”: “login_required”, “error_title”: “You Were Logged Out”, “error_body”: “Please log back in.”, “logout_reason”: 8, “status”: “fail”}” – Fixed in the API 4.0.42
6. “{“authenticated”: false, “user”: true, “status”: “ok”} “ – Fixed in the API 4.0.44

Update [Dec 18, 2017] All known issues are fixed. Please see the “Instagram issues” post for more info.

Critical Changes – As usually Facebook made a silent change to it’s API on October 4, 2017. All apps created since Oct 4, 2017 come with “Strict Mode” enebled by default and must have website URL in the “Valid OAuth redirect URIs” field. Otherwise you will get this error:

Please see here for instructions how to fix this error: [October 2017] Facebook Changes