Cannot delete Instagram realtime subscriptions

Question

I am running into an issue where I can subscribe to realtime updates on tags but I cannot delete these subscriptions.

Subscribing works fine, and I can prove that the subscription step works by GET'ing the subscription list:

curl -X GET 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/subscriptions?client_secret=SECRET&client_id=ID'


{"meta":{"code":200},
"data":[{"object":"tag",
    "object_id":"winter",
    "aspect":"media",
    "callback_url":"http:\/\/SITE.com:7000\/ig",
    "type":"subscription",
    "id":"4747294"},
    {"object":"tag",
    "object_id":"snow",
    "aspect":"media",
    "callback_url":"http:\/\/SITE.com:7000\/ig",
    "type":"subscription",
    "id":"4747295"}]}

This yields two tag subscriptions (winter and snow, in my case). However, the same code taken from the Instagram Developer instructions for deleting subscriptions is failing:

curl -X DELETE 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/subscriptions?client_secret=SECRET&object=all&client_id=ID'


Oops, an error occurred.

Is this an Instagram-side problem or is my DELETE command erroneous?

Answer 1

I'm getting the same error with code that had been working, so the problem appears to be on their side. I would suggest filing a bug report.