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I'm attempting to use the Instagram with Python and I'm running into an issue just using the stock examples on their GitHub page. I'm following the steps exactly in the first unauthenticated request section, and I'm being thrown the following errors.

My code: 

from instagram.client import InstagramAPI

access_token = "..."
client_secret = "..."
client_id = "..."
api = InstagramAPI(client_id=client_id, client_secret=client_secret)
popular_media = api.media_popular(count=20)
for media in popular_media:
    print media.images['standard_resolution'].url

The error: 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/instagram/bind.py", line 197, in _call
    return method.execute()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/instagram/bind.py", line 189, in execute
    content, next = self._do_api_request(url, method, body, headers)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/instagram/bind.py", line 131, in _do_api_request
    raise InstagramClientError('Unable to parse response, not valid JSON.', status_code=response['status'])
instagram.bind.InstagramClientError: (404) Unable to parse response, not valid JSON.

Any help would be appreciated! Again, this code is just straight from the docs so I'm not sure why it's not working.

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According to the Instagram Developers page,

"Instagram Platform and documentation update. Apps created on or after Nov 17, 2015 will start in Sandbox Mode and function on newly updated API rate-limits and behaviors."

As a result, if you created your app before Nov 17, 2015, you will not be able to perform unauthenticated requests.

Those docs from the python-instagram page(Last updated over 9 months ago) are outdated if your app was created before Nov 17, 2015.

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