Instagram Business Discovery API：按 ID 检索单个媒体

Question

Is there any way to get data for a single media obtained with business discovery? Here's my use case:

I use business API to get media from certain users. I save all the posts data, including media ID, images, etc. to build a gallery.

Once in a while, some media urls expire and the gallery start to show broken images, so I need a function that refresh the posts that have expired images via API, in order to get the new media urls.

In order to do that, I need to access the single media. I tried with direct media ID

GET /{media-id}

but I got

Unsupported get request. Object with ID '17893828628657031' does not exist, cannot be loaded due to missing permissions, or does not support this operation.

It seems that I don't have direct access to media discovered with business discovery API.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

It seems that I don't have direct access to media discovered with business discovery API.

Yes, that appears to be the case. In the endpoint documentation, in the section titled "Getting Basic Metrics on Media" , it explicitly says:

You can use both nested requests and field expansion to get public fields for a Business or Creator Account's media objects. Note that this does not grant you permission to access media objects directly — performing a GET on any returned IG Media will fail due to insufficient permissions.

So I guess you could only make the original business discovery request again - and then update your data storage with the current URLs this returns. If the account added new media since your last request, you might need to paginate through the results, to find your specific older media item IDs in there again.