Instafeed token not working

[monzanifabio]

I have been using Instafeed for nearly a year and from time to time I would have to generate a new token.
Although after trying that yesterday Instafeed seems not to be working and doesn't pull any images.
From the console I get the following errors:
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 ()
Error: api request error: 190 Error validating access token: The session has been invalidated because the user changed their password or Facebook has changed the session for security reasons.

[MattBudz]

I would run into this all the time. At first, I set a schedule where my app would refresh the token once every N days but it would still catch me off guard where the token would expire before the Nth day.

Now, I refresh my token every time the feed loads on the page

    const accessToken = <your API access token here>
    $.ajax({
      type: 'get',
      url:
        'https://graph.instagram.com/refresh_access_token?grant_type=ig_refresh_token&access_token=' +
        accessToken,
    });

To be clear, this doesn't change the token, it just refreshes its validity. Facebook likes to disable/invalidate tokens after N days, this pings FB to refresh the validity of the token. I have been using this method for over a year and haven't had any more errors due to invalid tokens.

[monzanifabio]

@MattBudz nice one!
Thanks for this, I'll try it out.