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# instagram.container.expired

> An IG media container aged past Instagram's 24-hour window before publish.

Instagram's Graph API requires a two-step publish: create a media container, then publish it. The container stays valid for **24 hours**. If the publish step happens after that window, Instagram rejects with `code 100, error_subcode 2207003` and the container is unrecoverable — you have to start over.

## Why this happens

* A scheduled post was queued more than 24 h after creation.
* The publish job retried so many times that the cumulative delay exceeded 24 h.
* An idempotency replay landed against a stale container.

## How to fix

Re-create the container and publish in one flow. letmepost.dev does this automatically on retry — the worker rebuilds the container if the previous one is older than 24 h, so the only time you see `instagram.container.expired` surfaced to your app is when the post body itself is unrecoverable (e.g., the source media URL is now 404).

## Related

* [Instagram platform docs](/platforms/instagram)
* [Preflight overview](/preflight)