Instagram Business
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Instagram Business is used by both content creators and businesses to publish posts and stories. You need an Instagram Business account to get insights on how these posts and stories and your account are performing.
Instagram is managed by Facebook. Therefore, each of your Instagram Business accounts must be linked to a Facebook page. However, one Facebook account may be linked to up to five Instagram Business accounts. To fetch your Instagram data, Hevo uses your Facebook login credentials to authenticate the respective Instagram Business account.
You can create Pipelines in Hevo that read your data using Instagram’s Graph API and load it to a Destination system of your choice.
Prerequisites
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An active Facebook account and Facebook page.
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The Instagram Business account is linked to a Facebook page.
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Instagram currently supports linking an Instagram Business account to a Facebook page only via the mobile app.
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Your personal Facebook account must have an
admin
role on the Facebook Page you are connecting to.
Configuring Instagram Business as a Source
Perform the following steps to configure Instagram Business as a Source in Hevo:
Step 1. Add an Instagram Business account
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Click PIPELINES in the Asset Palette.
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Click + CREATE in the Pipelines List View.
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In the Select Source Type page, select Instagram Business.
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In the Configure your Instagram Business account page, click + ADD INSTAGRAM BUSINESS ACCOUNT.
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Log in to Instagram using the Facebook account linked to your Instagram Business account(s). Hevo uses Facebook login to connect to the linked Instagram Business account.
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Select the Instagram Business account(s) whose data you want to replicate and click Next.
Note: Only the Instagram Business account(s) linked to a Facebook page are available for selection.
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For the Instagram Business account(s) you selected in the previous step, select the corresponding Facebook page(s), and then, click Next.
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Enable all the four options to authorize Hevo to access the data and click Done.
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Click OK in the confirmation dialog.
The Instagram Business account is successfully added in Hevo.
Step 2. Configure the Instagram Business Source settings
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In the Configure your Instagram Business Source page, specify the following:
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Pipeline Name: A unique name for the Pipeline, not exceeding 255 characters.
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Instagram Business account: Select the Instagram Business accounts. Default: All.
Note: Only the Instagram Business accounts for which you have selected the linked Facebook pages are available for selection.
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Historical Sync Duration: The duration for which the past data must be ingested. Default: 1 Year.
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Click TEST & CONTINUE.
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Proceed to configuring the data ingestion and setting up the Destination.
Limitations
- Hevo currently does not support the Hashtags object.
Revision History
Refer to the following table for the list of key updates made to this page:
Date | Release | Description of Change |
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Apr-11-2022 | 1.86 | Added a note in section, Data Replication to inform about optimized quota consumption for Full Load objects. |
Dec-20-2021 | 1.78 | Added ‘media_comment_insights’ to the list of objects under Data Replication, Incremental Data section. |
Oct-25-2021 | NA | Added the Pipeline frequency information in the Data Replication section. |
Sep-20-2021 | 1.72 | - Replaced media with media_detail in the Data Replication and Data Model sections. - Updated the section, Source Considerations to include information about the constraints imposed by Instagram on the ingestion of the media_detail object. |
Jul-26-2021 | NA | Added a note in the Overview section about Hevo providing a fully-managed Google BigQuery Destination for Pipelines created with this Source. |
Apr-06-2021 | 1.60 | New document |