Connecting your Instagram
  • 18 Sep 2023
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Connecting your Instagram

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Article Summary

By connecting your Instagram, GRIN can automatically pull in your Instagram posts and engagement numbers to deliver to the brands you are collaborating with. GRIN uses first-party data to sync your content and metrics directly from Meta, ensuring the data your collaborating brands receive is secure, accurate, and collected with your permission.

Note
If you don't connect your Instagram account and your brand requests Instagram content and metrics, you'll need to manually upload and provide those stats for each post on your Live Site. Learn more with our help article Manually uploading content.

What you'll need

Note
For details on how to connect a Facebook Page and an Instagram Professional account, check out our video at GRIN Academy. If you need more help, you can also see our support videos.

How to do it 

  1. Navigate to your Live Site > Networks and select Connect next to Instagram. 
  2. If you already connected your Instagram account on another Live Site, you’ll be prompted with different options to automatically connect the same account on your current Live Site. If you aren’t shown these options, skip this step and move on to Step 3.
    1. If you want to connect your account automatically and you only have one other Live Site to log in to, select Yes, auto connect. This will finish the connection process, and you can skip the rest of the steps in this article. 
    2. If you want to connect your account automatically and you have two or more Live Sites you can log in to, toggle on which brands' Live Sites you want to connect to, then select Yes, auto connect. This will finish the connection process, and you can skip the rest of the steps in this article.
    3. If you want to connect your account manually, select No, proceed to manually connect and continue to Step 3.
  3. Enter your Instagram handle and select Continue. GRIN will check to make sure your account is either a Business or Creator account. 
  4. Once you receive a success message, select Connect. This will open Meta’s login process in a new window. 
An image of the success message and the Connect button highlightedIf you have the right type of Instagram account, you'll get a success message like this. 
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If you don’t get a success message here, this means you haven’t switched your Instagram account to a Business or Creator account. See Meta’s help articles on how to create either a Business or a Creator account.
  1. If you’re not logged in already, log in to your Facebook account. This should be the same account that owns the Facebook Page that you connected to your Instagram account. 
  2. Select Continue as…
An image of GRIN requesting access to your Meta account with the Continue as... button highlightedSelect Continue as... to start connecting to Meta.
  1. Review the permissions you’re granting to GRIN and select Continue.
An image with all the permissions GRIN is requesting from Meta with the Continue button highlightedThese are all the permissions GRIN requests from Meta. 
Note

When reviewing these permissions, make sure you allow all the permissions shown. The easiest way is to keep every option selected for all the Pages and accounts that appear. GRIN needs all of these permissions to connect to your account and share your posts with brands. We do not ask for permissions to post on your behalf or view your sensitive account information. Learn more about each permission with our article Connecting social networks FAQ.

  1. You have now completed the connection process! If you have other Live Sites, you’ll be prompted with options to automatically connect your Instagram to those Live Sites as well. If you aren't prompted with these options, then you can skip this step.
    1. If you want to connect your account automatically and you only have one other Live Site to log in to, select Yes, auto connect.
    2. If you want to connect your account automatically and you have two or more Live Sites you can log in to, toggle on which brands' Live Sites you want to connect to, then select Yes, auto connect.
    3. If you don’t want to connect your account to other Live Sites, select No, I’ll do this later.

Your Instagram account is now connected to GRIN, and your collaborating brand will automatically receive your Instagram posts and metrics. If you need more help connecting to Instagram, check out our GRIN Academy lessons.


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