Unable to communicate with Instagram – https instead of http?

  • Resolved preload

    (@preload)


    11 years ago

    I was constantly having “Unable to communicate with Instagram” in the past few days. Then i tried changing the remote url from http to https on the scrape_instagram and it works.

    $remote = wp_remote_get('https://instagram.com/'.trim($username));

    Perhaps we should use https instead? When i visit http://instagram.com/someusername it automatically redirects me to the https.

    Oh, awesome plugin btw 🙂 Cheers..

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-instagram-widget/

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  • Plugin Author Scott (@scottsweb)

    (@scottsweb)

    11 years ago

    Thanks for reporting this, I have opened an issue on GitHub (https://github.com/scottsweb/wp-instagram-widget/issues/17) and will do some testing.

    Can you tell me if your own site is served over https. Thanks.

    Thread Starter preload

    (@preload)

    11 years ago

    Hi Scott, both of my sites not served over https.

    But, maybe this is false alarm. I tried to revert back using http on site A and https on site B. Both are working. Strange..

    Plugin Author Scott (@scottsweb)

    (@scottsweb)

    11 years ago

    Very strange, keep an eye on it and let me know if it happens again. I do get the feeling that Instagram is occasionally failing to respond to requests.

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