Is anyone successfully auto-posting to Instagram using the SNAP WP Plugin API?

I am auto-posting to Instagram with SNAP. I never had any problems. Works like a charm.

When I was configuring it, I got a message saying something like “Login error. Don’t use your email, use username”. I changed it to username and it is working perfectly since that.

You must be kidding me.

So how come my PRO version doesn’t post to Instagram, and the plugin support team has been on it for some 3 to 4 days now, and a solution has not yet been figured out?

How come I keep on getting the error:

Array ( [pgID] => [isPosted] => 0 [pDate] => 2016-05-24 05:08:45 [Error] => Something went wrong - ERROR -LOGIN- Array ( [status] => fail [message] => Sorry, there was a problem with your request. ) )

whenever the plugin tries to post to Instagram, even though I also use my real Instagram username (and not my email as username) and password to connect the plugin to my Instagram network?

Something is not consistent here.

@airmailfrance what version of the plugin are you using,if I may ask? In my case, I had it also working like a ‘charm’ , at the very beginning, until I upgraded the plugin to the version 3.6.2 and now to the version 3.6.3

I keep it up to date. I was using 3.5.5, then 3.6.2, now I have 3.6.3. It is still working.

Sorry to say, but error

ERROR -LOGIN- “Sorry, there was a problem with your request”

means “You were abusing our network, your IP is banned”

We don’t have any information is this ban is temporary or permanent.

You should obey terms and conditions for each network you are posting to. Instagram does not accept more posts that’s humanely possible.

Plugin has all necessary tools to avoid it.

How could I have “I have abused your network, and my IP getting banned”?

I posted between 40 and 50 images over a period of 6 to 7 hours, and is that too much to be categorized as abusing your network?

This so called ban cannot be true, for I have posted at least 2 images to Instagram today, May 25th, using another plugin from my WordPress website (and NextScripts can verify this post on Instagram, since I have provided my Instagram identity to their support team) If my ip were banned, the 2 successful posts, wouldn’t have been possible.

This so called ban cannot be true, because a ban could also imply that I wouldn’t be able to post to Instagram at all, even from my phone or tablet, which is not the case now. Instagram will display a message to me if a ban is in place (Ref.: https://help.instagram.com/366993040048856 )

I have been posting with NextScripts plugin to Instagram (until today) . If the NextScripts plugin has all the necessary tools to avoid a ban, then how could this same plugin could have triggered a ban, and resulting in

ERROR -LOGIN- "Sorry, there was a problem with your request"

errors?

There must be some sort of code changes that NextScripts might have done, that is probably causing a conflict with some of the plugins installed on my website. If only NextScripts would provide me with the version 3.6.1 of their plugin, that will prove my point.

Please don’t get me wrong here, for I am not saying that NextScripts has not done a good job (or is not doing a good job) . I am implying here that the upgrade from version 3.6.1 to 3.6.2 is what could have like caused my NextScripts plugin not to post to Instagram anymore.

If only NextScripts would provide me with the version 3.6.1 of their plugin, that will prove my point.

1. The main difference between SNAP and all other autoposting plugins out there is that we don’t act like a middleman between you and your networks.

When you post with your “other” plugin, your post goes to their remote server and then from there to Instagram. Of course it works since their IP is not banned.

2. Your ACCOUNT is not banned. That’s why you other devices work fine. Only your server IP is banned.

3. Open Instagram account in SNAP, click Advanced tab, check “Proxy”, enter some proxy IP:Port. Save settings, make post. Take a look at the successful post in your Instagram account.

I am open to any possible explanation why with exactly the same code and settings it does with proxy IP and does not work from your IP.

I can imagine only one possible explanation – Instagram does not accept posts from your IP.

Wait a minute …

Instagram imposes limits on:

1. Hashtags
2. Following
3. Likes
4. Hashtags
5. Characters

But there are NO limits on the number of

8. Posts

(Reference: https://www.jennstrends.com/limits-on-instagram/ )

My blog currently do not auto-post more than 576 posts per day (that is, in 24 hrs).

People, is the above number of posts per day, humanely unacceptable to Instagram, considering the facts that these posts of mine aren’t abusing any of the above listed 6 Instagram guidelines?

NextScripts is trying to accuse me of abuse (that is, too much posts per day, in less than 8 hrs of successful testing with version 3.6.1 of their plugin). Something is missing here.

(Typo updated)
Wait a minute …

Instagram imposes limits on:

1. Hashtags
2. Following
3. Likes
4. Characters

But there are NO limits on the number of

5. Posts

(Reference: https://www.jennstrends.com/limits-on-instagram/ )

My blog currently do not auto-post more than 576 posts per day (that is, in 24 hrs).

People, is the above number of posts per day, humanely unacceptable to Instagram, considering the facts that these posts of mine aren’t abusing any of the above listed 5 Instagram guidelines?

NextScripts is trying to accuse me of abuse (that is, too much posts per day, in less than 8 hrs of successful testing with version 3.6.1 of their plugin). Something is missing here.

1. Instagram does not imposes limits on posts, because officially you can post to Instagram ONLY from the phone. No sane or insane human can possibly be writing 576 posts per day every day. So from the instagram’s point of view you are not human. You are a spammer. There is no need to announce a specific number of posts. They have spam protection algorithms. if you post more then humanely possible – you are a spammer.

2. I would like to hear your opinion about that:

Open Instagram account in SNAP, click Advanced tab, check “Proxy”, enter some proxy IP:Port. Save settings, make post. Take a look at the successful post in your Instagram account.

I am open to any possible explanation why with exactly the same code and settings it does with proxy IP and does not work from your IP.

I can imagine only one possible explanation – Instagram does not accept posts from your IP.

If you guys are writing like how you are writing, namely:

Instagram does not imposes limits on posts, because officially you can post to Instagram ONLY from the phone. No sane or insane human can possibly be writing 576 posts per day every day. So from the instagram’s point of view you are not human. You are a spammer. There is no need to announce a specific number of posts. They have spam protection algorithms. if you post more then humanely possible – you are a spammer.

and at the same time you issue statements such as

Plugin has all necessary tools to avoid it.

then you are in a way contradicting yourselves. To sum it up, what the above means is that, the plugin is not doing its work well of protecting its users against possible network blockages.

Secondary, please don’t digress from the core issue at stack. If I wrote that our system does not post more that 576 posts per day:

1. It doesn’t mean that we actually posted 567 posts to Instagram, and therefore NextScripts claims that our ip is banned. As a matter of fact, We posted less that 40 different posts, at irregular times, and over a period of 7 to 8 hours to Instagram (, just about 6 days ago and specifically on May 19th, 2016, and some few hours before NextScripts rolled out

version 3.6.2 [05/20/2016]

The plugin worked for us as expected, and started with the plugin version 3.6.1. We started to post for the first time to Instagram using the plugin’s Instagram API on this faithful day of May 19th,2016. Alas! the plugin developers rolled out the version 3.6.2 [05/20/2016], while we were still test-posting to Instagram. And then suddenly, the SNAP plugin, stopped posting to our Instagram account. And instead of NextScripts looking back at what code changes they had made to their Instagram API scripts, they’re trying to say that our ip has been banned, which is an incorrect statement.

Please if you want to know if our ip has been blacklisted, there are several open sources tools to check that (A good start is here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check ). We have checked with several of such tools, and our ip is not listed anywhere as a spammer. Even though we gladly use tools such as SNAP auto-posting, we also apply our common senses, in sending out posts.

2. It doesn’t mean that we post every single post of ours to every single network that we use SNAP to connect to. We are aware of the various limitations that the networks we post to impose on postings.

Once again, would avail your plugin’s version 3.6.1 to us so that we can vindicate ourselves?

Lastly, if SNAP plugin really really have all the necessary tools to control and or avoid spamming, then this claim that our system spammed Instagram and therefore got our ip banned is unfounded. Our reasoning being that we have never used any tool/plugin to post from our system to Instagram, before and on May 19th, 2016, and having used only SNAP plugin on May 19th, 2016, if our ip still gets banned less than 24 hours later, then SNAP’s anti-spam code has a question mark to it

I am trying to configure SNAP for a client site. It has never been able to post to Instagram, not even once. This is the message when trying to submit a test post:

Testing …

Array
(
[pgID] =>
[isPosted] => 0
[pDate] => 2017-02-07 23:40:24
[Error] => Something went wrong – |ERROR -LOGIN- Array
(
[checkpoint_url] => https://i.instagram.com/integrity/checkpoint/checkpoint_logged_out_main/4186525710/GUksiOEmWc/?next=instagram%3A%2F%2Fcheckpoint%2Fdismiss
[message] => checkpoint_required
[error_type] => checkpoint_logged_out
[status] => fail
[lock] => 1
)

)

Array ( [pgID] => [isPosted] => 0 [pDate] => 2017-02-07 23:40:24 [Error] => Something went wrong – |ERROR -LOGIN- Array ( [checkpoint_url] => https://i.instagram.com/integrity/checkpoint/checkpoint_logged_out_main/4186525710/GUksiOEmWc/?next=instagram%3A%2F%2Fcheckpoint%2Fdismiss [message] => checkpoint_required [error_type] => checkpoint_logged_out [status] => fail [lock] => 1 ) )

When I click on the Advanced tab there is no place to put a proxy IP.

I am using the username not email and have verified the PW is correct. Client has the PRO version. Any suggestions?

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by trishahdee.

Why would you need t proxy for that?

Please see the answer in the FAQ – #4.1:
https://www.nextscripts.com/support-faq/#a41