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Generate a personal access token for Instagram
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  1. Register a client at https://www.instagram.com/developer/ (redirect_uri can be something simple such as http://localhost)
  2. Go to the 'Security' tab for your client (under manage) and untick 'Disable implicit OAuth'
  3. Take the following URL, subsitute the [client_id] with your own and the [redirect_uri] with one you specified during the registration process: https://api.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=[client_id]&redirect_uri=[redirect_uri]&response_type=token
  4. Navigate to the URL in the browser (while logged in as the same user), after accepting any prompts you should be redirected to your specified redirect_uri with the access token appended
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