Instagram oauth api gives {“error_message”: “Matching code was not found or was already used.”, “code”: 400, “error_type”: “OAuthException”}

Question

I am seeing this error from my live server using the Instagram API.

{
\"error_message\": \"Matching code was not found or was already used.\"
, \"code\": 400         


        

Answer 1

I was also facing the same problem. I have tried all the solutions available on the SO. But it didn't work.

When I debugged the that Instagram code in details, I found that Instagram was providing the code something like this after authorization -

AQAbo7gLQMVRqC4NitrEGSj6tPa8UBREsSYDAL7IZcthASbSKaJANrry3HgQnofJuY4nJx9NTuo_eO4SV8ol4-olk0Y4NzhbXkxTw8G9dBq-T3uZuBzRIVJd61LsYHq15tIeDswI82ri6lt7ngc76eoAAAypgGc3cq9DqayVb7oCpfWZEym6KPH_hJMVaoUOAjN9OT1EEtYuUhmUFgJHHEy66ab9LgHZLXiFxugYBkrdKw#_

It started working when I removed the ending 2 charaters #_ from the code. Below is the final code that I used to get the access_token -

AQAbo7gLQMVRqC4NitrEGSj6tPa8UBREsSYDAL7IZcthASbSKaJANrry3HgQnofJuY4nJx9NTuo_eO4SV8ol4-olk0Y4NzhbXkxTw8G9dBq-T3uZuBzRIVJd61LsYHq15tIeDswI82ri6lt7ngc76eoAAAypgGc3cq9DqayVb7oCpfWZEym6KPH_hJMVaoUOAjN9OT1EEtYuUhmUFgJHHEy66ab9LgHZLXiFxugYBkrdKw

This was a simple solution in my case.

I hope this will help people in case they are still facing this issue.