I’m looking to build an app and one of the main things it needs to be able to do is allow users to search for Instagram accounts and then select/save when they’ve found the right Instagram account.
I’ve had a search and not found much on the topic, is this possible at all with glide?
To do this, you would need an endpoint that allows searching via the handle for example, and it seems like Instagram retired that endpoint 6+ years ago.
The only thing remotely close to this is searching business accounts, whilst you yourself are authenticated as a business account.
But this is a direct target search (i.e you know the handle in advance). It’s not an arbitrary search like what you would want, from what I understand about your post.
Thanks for the reply 
The stack overflow post is quite old and I think we’re on v5 of the meta api - from their docs it looks like I can search business accounts and user accounts as long as they have more than 1000 followers.
To be more specific - what I’m looking for is to search business accounts and potentially some user accounts where they actually are a business but using a personal account (so I don’t really care if they are returned in the results).
So to clarify and ask the question in a fuller way (my mistake for not being specific first time).
Do you think it’s possible to use the meta api to search business accounts from glide, the glide app user can find the account they’re looking for, and select/save the Instagram account (most likely the @ handle) to a glide table?
If there’s a direct endpoint to do so, you would want users to tie their search to a user-specific column, and hit a “Search” button when they finish typing to call the API endpoint and get the result back to a column in your database.
The usual experience is searching as they’re typing, but I fear that’s a bit pricey to do in Glide.
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