[SOLVED] Instagram Profile Picture Access Denied

Instagram Profile Picture Access Denied

I get my client-id from instagram. It says CLİENT STATUS Live . But when I type this into browser it does not give me sample output in the website.

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN

I replaced ACCESS-TOKEN with my client id. And I get this error.

{"meta": {"code": 400, "error_type": "OAuthAccessTokenException", "error_message": "The access_token provided is invalid."}}

Am I doing something wrong? I wanna get this response.

{
  "data": {
    "id": "1574083",
    "username": "snoopdogg",
    "full_name": "Snoop Dogg",
    "profile_picture": "http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/profiles/profile_1574083_75sq_1295469061.jpg",
    "bio": "This is my bio",
    "website": "http://snoopdogg.com",
    "is_business": false,
    "counts": {
      "media": 1320,
      "follows": 420,
      "followed_by": 3410
    }
  }
}

Solution

The ACCESS-TOKEN and CLIENT ID is not the same thing. You need to use your CLIENT ID to retrieve an access token using OAuth: https://www.instagram.com/developer/authentication