Link to Instagram profile with user ID

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smilebomb picture smilebomb · Jul 16, 2013 · Viewed 26.7k times · Source

I want to link to a profile/user account on Instagram. I have the user ID, but the I can't find the answer in the developer API documentation. I've tried instagram.com/userID and instagram.com/users/userID but these aren't working. Simple question: I have just a single <a> tag and I want to know what goes in the href to take the user to a specific instagram profile. Or possibly a window.location in javascript.

Or if there's a way to get the username from the ID, I suppose I could also do it in that round-a-bout way...

Answer

Tim Bodeit picture Tim Bodeit · Jul 17, 2013

I am not aware of a solution, that makes it work as a simple link.

You will need to use the Instagram API and sign up your application so that you have a Client-ID.

Next, you will need to do the following request as HTTP GET:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/userID?client_id=YourClientID

This will return a JSON-Result, which will contain the username inside the data section.

Now you can use http://instagram.com/username as your link.

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