Is there a way to tell if its an Instagram creator or business account?

Question

Recently Instagram introduced their new Creator profiles. Your Instagram account can now be one of the following: personal account, business account or creator account.

Not everything which is possible with a business account is also possible with a creator account. So I need a way in my application to determine if it's one or the other.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Thanks @RaideR for the question and the support in the comment.

Just to help everyone out there who doesn't want to scrape just to get such a basic info, it's actually possible to extract this by simulating an empty POST call to the /userid/media endpoint and catching the exception with code = 10, which indicates the account is a Creator. All other cases are Business Acccounts.

POST /userid/media 
CATCH FacebookResponseException

Below you can find my PHP code as reference, but you can apply the same logic in any language with any framework:

public function isBusiness() {
    try {
        $this->conn->post("/".$this->fb_id."/media", [], $this->getToken());
        return true;
    } catch (FacebookResponseException $e) {
        if ($e->getCode() == 10) {
        return false;
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
        return true;
    }
 }

I wrote a more extensive article here if you want more info.