Instagram oneboxing

[bts (Brendan Schlagel)]

Server has space, but looks like we did not have that setting enabled, I will turn it on now and run the rebake again. Thanks for the help here!

[bts (Brendan Schlagel)]

Following up here, I found that after enabling download remote images to local (with plenty of disk space free) and rebaking, the Instagram onebox preview images were still breaking.

EDIT: ahhh as I’m writing this I think I see what’s going on.

Newer Instagram posts did have the correct image URLs from our domain, while older ones still had the expiring Instagram ones. When I did the rebake for all old embeds, I didn’t realize the site setting download remote images max days old (default 30 days) was limiting this.

So I changed that setting to 9999 and did the rebake again, seems to be working now! (Leaving this rubber-ducking post here just in case this helps clarify for anyone else…)

[Anatolia]

Instagram onebox doesn’t have video playing and showing album images seperetaly (or sliding) features. Twitter onebox have both. Maybe these could be improved.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Not possible due to IG policies. They are owned by Facebook, who are a-holes about this stuff.

[Anatolia]

I didn’t know that. Thank you.

[Dmitry_Krasnoperov]

Looks like Instagram oneboxing is broken?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Let’s see

[Album] G2 Drops

Looks fine to me?

[Dmitry_Krasnoperov]

@dastereo.ru

doesn’t work for me when I try to put it.

[Remah (Just another happy Discourse user)]

doesn’t work for me

But it looks fine for me so have you got a browser/extension problem?

[Stephen]

Might be useful to show us which site it isn’t working on as it’s fine here on meta.

[Dmitry_Krasnoperov]

this one
https://www.dastereo.ru/t/treklist-moej-zhizni/10911/194?u=dmitre

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

If it works here, then Instagram has possibly blacklisted your server or IP range?

[bts (Brendan Schlagel)]

Just reporting anecdotally, we’ve seen some weird inconsistent Instagram oneboxing lately. A couple cases recently where we see the preview image failing to display and then a day later or something seems to work. This happened even for one of our own IG videos that we’d recently posted and displayed perfectly fine on instagram.com

I suspect there may just be some jankiness with the Instagram API unfortunately…

[rlauriston (Robert Lauriston)]

III Mas BBQ

[rlauriston (Robert Lauriston)]

I see it now. Some weird latency?

[dylanb (Dylan Burkhardt)]

I’ve been having an issue on my site with IG One Boxes not showing up. Any ideas of where to look to start debugging why?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Instagram recently changed the rules, we are working on some fixes here, but it will take some time.

[thesequel]

Flarum found a way to fix it. Maybe it helps some of you guys to keep it working for discourse:

Testing Some Functions - Flarum Community

[jamie.wilson]

Instagram and Facebook oEmbed API to stop working, what about Onebox?

If you’re running an up-to-date Discourse instance you should now be able to add a token that will allow oneboxes to be generated using the new API. I’ve not yet written up step-by-step instructions on how to generate the token, but if you are comfortable in Facebook’s developer site you can go through the ‘Requirements’ listed here: to generate a token. That token can then be entered as the value for the facebook_app_access_token SiteSetting.