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How does Storrito integrate with Instagram

How does Storrito integrate with Instagram



Regrettably, Instagram (or rather Meta, the company behind Instagram) does not offer story posting via its API yet. The same is true for many other important Instagram features at the moment. 

Nevertheless, companies need to automate parts of their social media activities to stay cost-effective. Paying your staff to post on social media in the evening or on the weekends is expensive and decreases the employee satisfaction. Instagram Stories create even more work, since they cannot be prepared in advance (and saved as draft for example).

Therefore, Storrito and any other service on the market that offers Instagram Stories automation, needs to use other technical solutions to integrate with Instagram, until Instagram will finally offer those features via their API.

In comparison to many other social media formats, Instagram Stories have a high technical obstacle, since they can contain so many interactive elements like Mentions, Hashtags, Question Sliders, Polls, Music stickers etc. The team at Storrito has a hard time to keep up with the newest Instagram Stories stickers, since we need to re-implement every sticker in our story editor. It is unclear if Instagram will ever publish all story features via their API and if competitors will invest the money to create a complex editor to create Instagram stories (like Storrito did).

Storrito offers to connect your Instagram account with Username and Password:

Storrito will technically automate the Instagram app for Android to do the story posting. It makes no difference, if you use Storrito or the official Instagram Android app. Therefore you do not put your Instagram account at risk. We encrypt your Instagram credentials to make our service as secure as possible. The risk of getting hacked is not substantially higher than a service that would use the Instagram API (that does not exist yet). Instagram has many security layers to protect your account. That is the reason why it is sometimes so hard to connect your Instagram account to Storrito. We recommend all users to activate the 2-factor-authentication of Instagram (which is also supported by Storrito). You can disconnect Storrito from your Instagram account at any time by changing your Instagram password.

Updated on: 22/08/2023

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