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I have made an android application that enables advertisers to count the posts each one of their followers/followings have liked. this way they'll be able to understand which one of them is more active and which one is not, I also have added another feature for sending like requests to the followers/followings by leaving a like on their most recent post and leaving a comment that tells them "I liked your posts come and like my posts". I registered a submission and explained everything as they wanted, but they declined my submission :( Now my question is How should I explain it for them or WHAT CHANGES should I apply to my application so they approve it.

This is their answer:

General issues:

Invalid Use Case: The use case described in your submission notes, screencast and website is not a valid use case. If you are trying to build analytics for personal use or one-off projects, note that we do not support one-off and single use projects. We recommend that you use a third-party platform that powers this use case. If you are building a platform for this use case, we will only approve one client ID for all your integrations. For more information, please see: https://www.instagram.com/developer/review/ Policy Violation ("Like", "Follow", "Comment" Exchange Program): Your app shouldn't participate, enable or promote any “like”, “share”, “comment” or “follower” exchange programs. In working to build a high quality platform experience, we ask that you comply with our Platform Policy (http://wwww.instagram.com/about/legal/terms/api/).

I have to say my application is not a ONE-OFF application, as the number of liked posts vary from time to time, so the user will check this application almost every day.

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I also have added another feature for sending like requests to the followers/followings by leaving a like on their most recent post and leaving a comment that tells them "I liked your posts come and like my posts".

This is against the API policy:

Your app shouldn't participate, enable or promote any “like”, “share”, “comment” or “follower” exchange programs.

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  • Now the question is If our app shouldn't like/comment any posts from the user side, so why does Instagram provide like/comment post APIs?? @krisrak – inverted_index Feb 25 '17 at 11:03