How to hide access token without API proxy server

I'm trying to display images of Instagram on HTML page and deploy on a hosting website.
I only know HTML, CSS and a bit of JS.
I tried using the API proxy server by following youtube tutorial, but I'm getting a lot of errors.
is there any way I can avoid that?

ErickO•2/15/23, 7:35 PM

that API key is either in the front end or it isn't, you can't hide it on the Front-end that's just not possible, obfuscate it perhaps but anyone half decent would be able to get it anyway

ErickO•2/15/23, 7:36 PM

so you either need your own API or a proxy

EErickO that API key is either in the front end or it isn't, you can't hide it on the Fr...

Abdul Ahad⚡OP•2/15/23, 8:36 PM

Which one is the easiest.
API or Proxy?

ErickO•2/15/23, 8:44 PM

eh more or less the same

ErickO•2/15/23, 8:44 PM

https://youtu.be/nCWE6eonL7k

YouTubeCoding Garden

Hide API Keys with a Node.js API Proxy + Caching, Rate Limiting and...

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ErickO•2/15/23, 8:47 PM

it's really just a uh...semantics, proxy would be something that all is doing is forwarding requests an API has more uses than that but same technology being used