### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/1 "2020-01-08T11:42:12Z")
why does [this instagram link](https://www.instagram.com/p/B3jG277hve9/) onebox like this?
[https://www.instagram.com/p/B3jG277hve9/](https://www.instagram.com/p/B3jG277hve9/)
it also links to nowhere if I don’t use hyperlinked text (you can click on the one-boxed link above)!
the link:
`https://www.instagram.com/p/B3jG277hve9/`
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/3 "2020-01-09T06:34:35Z")
My guess is it is a private account?
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### Author:  [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/4 "2020-01-09T07:00:55Z")
Nope, that’s not a private account. Here’s another example from a fully public post:
[https://www.instagram.com/p/B6gUJwDl-lQ/](https://www.instagram.com/p/B6gUJwDl-lQ/)
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Wow, I posted `https://www.instagram.com/p/B6gUJwDl-lQ/` but the onebox redirects to this topic itself…
(edit my post to repro this in the composer)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 7:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/5 "2020-01-09T07:05:30Z")
What’s different about this photo versus others?
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### Author:  [@Hector](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hector)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/6 "2020-01-10T13:22:49Z")
It seems that some Instagram pages have a canonical link with a different url that requires login. The code in the onebox library prefers the canonical url.
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For example, these are the canonical urls of the instagrams in this topic:
https://www.instagram.com/shaparakgroup.ir/p/B3jG277hve9/caption/backhand\_index\_pointing\_right-chp-shprkh-ok\_hand-black\_small\_square-khrt-wyzyt-hy-brsh-khs
https://www.instagram.com/dogsofinstagram/p/B6gUJwDl-lQ/caption/happy-holidays-writes-konaandcamper-misslolathegoldendoodle-camera\_with\_flash-by-sh
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### Author:  [@WaitroseCarpark](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WaitroseCarpark)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/7 "2020-01-13T07:12:08Z")
I’m getting this issue as well. Upgrading my installation now to see if it fixes.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 9:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/8 "2020-01-13T09:15:15Z")
@techAPJ can you fix this please? Basically we have to ignore canonical metadata for Instagram now..
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/10 "2020-01-13T15:01:07Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> ignore canonical metadata for Instagram
Done via:
[https://github.com/discourse/onebox/commit/0d88354b4b85c572a7f2431bd01d849392625b5c](https://github.com/discourse/onebox/commit/0d88354b4b85c572a7f2431bd01d849392625b5c)
Example link:
[https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Cz042qSxv/](https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Cz042qSxv/)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/11 "2020-01-14T00:20:55Z")
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/12 "2020-05-21T18:06:55Z")
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/13 "2020-05-21T18:07:25Z")
Looks like we’ve regressed here, or Instagram changed something again. We’re back to just showing “Login • Instagram”. cc @techAPJ
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### Author:  [@cvx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cvx)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/15 "2020-05-22T00:35:52Z")
Weird, that image on Instagram doesn’t have any `og:` meta tags anymore. 😬 Couldn’t find any other that would have them missing…
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/16 "2020-05-22T08:20:25Z")
The weird thing is Instagram onebox is working okay for me locally (on latest Discourse version). And I do see OpenGraph (`og`) tags in incognito mode.
Reproducing this issue locally will be tricky.. investigating more.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/17 "2020-05-22T23:18:32Z")
Is it specific to that one image? 🤔
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/18 "2020-05-22T23:51:49Z")
No, I tried multiple images from multiple accounts and all were oneboxing fine locally.
Here’s an image from [an hour ago](https://www.instagram.com/p/CAgdFv7IhtH) on NatGeo oneboxing fine locally.
Might be geographical issue?
FWIW, Instagram oneboxing is failing on [discourse.codinghorror.com](http://discourse.codinghorror.com) as well, so this issue is not specific to meta.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/19 "2020-05-23T04:16:11Z")
Maybe the user agent changes the response?
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### Author:  [@znedw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/znedw)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/20 "2020-05-26T04:55:12Z")
[https://www.instagram.com/p/CAojxzfjO0y/](https://www.instagram.com/p/CAojxzfjO0y/)
this is broken on our forum as well
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 5:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/21 "2020-05-26T05:11:17Z")
I don’t think so. We use same user agent for all the requests made from Discourse codebase as per:
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### Author:  [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/22 "2020-05-26T10:28:07Z")
> [@techAPJ](#):
>
> Might be geographical issue?
> [@znedw](#):
>
> this is broken on our forum as well
Same issue on ours now here in the UK too.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 10:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047/23 "2020-05-26T10:34:20Z")
I am updating Instagram onebox to use [official oEmbed](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram/embedding/) endpoints. I have this change working locally and expect to push a fix later today. Hopefully the Instagram oEmbed endpoints will not have geographical restrictions.
[Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-instagram-link-onebox-like-this/138047.md?page=2)