title: Using Instagram Graph Api with permanent page access token only works for some accounts
body: <p>I try to fetch some images from an instagram business account through the instagram graph api by means of a permanent <strong>page access token</strong> (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17197970/facebook-permanent-page-access-token/28418469#28418469">facebook: permanent Page Access Token?</a>). These specific tokens seem to be the only possibility to get permanent access to the graph api for a <strong>server-side app</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>On the other side I found a hint in the fb documentation that only user accesss tokens can be used to access instagram business accounts.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"Page access tokens are not supported."</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/overview/?locale=en_US" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/overview/?locale=en_US</a></p>
  
  <p>Funny enough I was using page tokens so far without any problems. After resetting the database of my project and generating new tokens I observered that some accounts weren't able to fetch the data while others had no problems.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"Unsupported get request. Object with ID 'XXX' does not exist, cannot be loaded due to missing permissions, or does not support this operation."</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I had 2 instagram accounts: 1 was working with page access tokens the other didn't. So, I checked it in the fb graph explorer. Using the user access token I have no problem with both accounts. Using the page access token respectivly for both accounts one is working fine for the query while the other isn't. A third account that I created has the same problem.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Things I tried to resolve the issue:</strong></p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>deleting all permanent page access tokens from my database and generate them again</li>
  <li>generate the permanent page access tokens manually by means of the fb graph explorer tool</li>
  <li>turn my instagram account back into personal and then again into a business account through the app</li>
  <li>turn my instagram account back into personal and then again into a business account through the facebook page</li>
  <li>create a new instagram account and a new facebook page to connect (repeating 3. and 4.)</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p><strong>My questions now:</strong></p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Can I use permanent page access tokens for the instagram graph api?</li>
  <li>If not, how do I get permanent server side access to the instagram graph api?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I am now searching the internet and stackoverflow for days and getting crazy because I seem to be the only person experiencing this problem. So, help will be highly appreciated by my fellow developers. Tia.</p>