Users in my web app authenticate with Instagram. After, I query https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/ to fetch recent posts and generate a preview of each using Instgram's oembed endpoint.
This works fine for 99% of my users so far, but now I see for one user, the recent posts endpoint is returning post links that can't be opened (I see same result when pasting URL into browser)
Also, it seems like the post link returned for this user are much longer than a usual Instagram URL like https://www.instagram.com/p/bNd86MSFv6/
What could be the reason for posts not being viewable?
Longer URLs are usually photo links from private profile, so it will not be viewed by just anyone.
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I just can't get it right.
There are docs for instagram api that says do one call, it will redirect user to a page where he authenticate, then you get code from Redirect Url and now using this code you can get token. That is working and it is just fine. But, what if i want to do a website for myself as personal page and show my own instagram photos filtered by tag to ANYONE. I don't need OAuth, any login. I'm ok with creating Node server and make a call smth like this:
http://api.instagram.com/auth?client_id_or_login=vvinog&password=secretpassword
and get token from this call. But it looks like in the internet no one do this, or i dump?
Can you please advice some tutorial, approach that allows me to do that?
Any code snippets are super welcome.
Firstly, there are already questions to this topic, but none cover up my problem, entirely, because it's either not the data I need or it's not working properly.
There are services like InstaDP that are able to show you the HQ version of any profile picture from Instagram. Now, I wonder how this is possible?
I did some research and were able to find a higher quality URL when accessing https://www.instagram.com/instagramforbusiness/?__a=1 (see profile_pic_url_hd, answered here). However, InstaDP seems to have a backend that returns a different url that redirects to a way higher quality image: https://instadp-cors-222621.appspot.com/get-hd?id=1107766105 (see at hd_profile_pic_url_info, I extracted the ID for the URL from the result of the ?__a=1 link). I tested this with my personal profile and was able to get the image of myself in an outstanding quality of 1024x1024. However, the ?__a=1 link seem only to return a link for my profile picture in 320x320.
Since InstaDP seem to not be the only player who is able to fetch HQ profile pictures I went ahead and compared the backends of those players. It seems that each service seem to have a different URL to the HQ profile picture of the same Instagram account. So my conclusion is that the Instagram API is involved in all that.
So I created a client key at https://www.instagram.com/developer/. I was also able to get my auth token and determine my logged in csrftoken for the X-CSRFToken header. Now my question is how to continue?
I found a few answers to this topic stating I should request https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/1107766105/info/, but it always returns the login page as HTML.
I tried a REST client that uses my Chrome cookies and logged into Instagram before, I tried to set my HTTP headers to X-CSRFToken:<mycookietoken> and Content-Type:application/json. (If I don't set the CSRFToken it errors, so I need to add it, but if the header is set I get the HTML again, even when the CSRFToken is correct. I don't get an error when the CSRFToken is wrong.)
I also tried setting the Origin, Referer and Host to trick Instagram in believing the request came from its own window location, without luck. Setting the Host will even cause a 400 bad request. Even adding my access token in the URL had no effect (?access-token=########).
To sum my question up, how do those services obtain the profile pictures in a such a great quality of up to 1024x1024 from the cdninstagram servers?
Although I am late, but this might be of someone's help:
Step 1:
First thing you need to get HD Instagram profile picture is their profile ID. This can be found in the source code of user profile link. For example if you view source of the following link https://www.instagram.com/abdulhaq0/ and search for "logging_page_id" you will get "profilePage_1285389476". The numbers following the profilePage are the ID for this account.
Step 2:
Next you need put ID in the following URL https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/{ProfileID}/info/ and open it in browser. In our case link would be https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/1285389476/info/
Step 3:
Now on the link above search for "hd_profile_pic_url_info". There you can get the URL of HD Instagram profile picture.
Hope this helped.
Steps:
1. Get the instagram post link. Eg : https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo-Jru-g7Wa/
or if you don't have the link, the instagram api provides you with a permalink option in the result array which for the above link is Bo-Jru-g7Wa
Now just follow add media?size=l after the url ie.,
Result: High quality image url:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo-Jru-g7Wa/media?size=l
you can see it in action here: https://jsfiddle.net/nmj1z7wo/fiddle URL
This link can be considered as a shorthand code to instagram image URL's which are very much bigger
I believe those sites like https://instadp.site/ that show the hi-res of the user profile image do not use the official Instagram API.
In the past it was possible to hack Instagram's CDN URLs to change parameters and get the high resolution from them, but nowadays the URLs are signed and if you change any parameters the URL will fail.
So, the only solution they may be using is to emulate a client. There is a popular PHP client for this: https://github.com/mgp25/Instagram-API
The instagram API have updated. Now we will get only the 320x320 sized image from
https://www.instagram.com/{username}/?__a=1
Even if you get the user id from this endpoint the "user info" endpoint does not return the hd url in its response and should pass a header too now.
import requests
def get_user_by_user_id(user_id):
if user_id:
base_url = "https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/{}/info/"
headers = {
'user-agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148 Instagram 105.0.0.11.118 (iPhone11,8; iOS 12_3_1; en_US; en-US; scale=2.00; 828x1792; 165586599)'
}
try:
res = requests.get(base_url.format(user_id),headers=headers)
print(res.json())
except Exception as e:
print("getting user failed, due to '{}'".format(e.message))
get_user_by_user_id(userid)
You can check this code and try. Websites like instadp I guess they does not use instagram's official API
The easiest and most reliable way of getting HD (1080x1080) profile pic is Instaloader CLI.
instaloader USERNAME_OF_INTEREST --no-posts --login YOUR_USERNAME
I'm working on a project which aims to analyse instagram users' posts. I have a list of users and for each of them I have to crawl the recent media with the number of likes, comments and the text of comments.
By using the recent media endpoint I've achieved some user media (of my user, using the access_token associated to my account).
The result only gives the number of comments per media, but not the text. So I selected some media_id from this output and tryied to retrieve the comments associated to the media. But the result is ever
{"meta": {"code": 200}, "data": []}
The endpoint url that I use is
https://api.instagram.com/v1/media/{media-id}/comments?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
the access_token is generated with public_content, follower_list and basic scopes.
My app is in a sandbox, and I am the only one user of the sandbox.
Any suggestion?
thanks in advance
You can use cURL to get 40 comment per 1 request likes this
"linkOfMedia"/?__a=1
and then take comment in graphql->shortcode_media->edge_media_to_comment->edges. If you want more you should take end_cursor at page_info object then add &end_cursor= after the link.
You have to be in live mode and have public_content permission to get comments.
sandbox mode will only give you and your sandbox user's info in API response, if you or your sandbox user have commented on a media then that will only show in response, once u go live mode, all comments will be in response.
Also API will only give you maximum of 150 latest comments for any media, not all.
When I run the following url to access Instagram media search:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/media/search?lat=37.775&lng=-122.4183333&access_token=MyAccessToken
I get the response below from Instagram:
{"meta":{"code":200},"data":[]}
Don't know why I am not getting the detailed media search results back. This url is similar to the example provided in the Instagram/Developer webpage: https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/media/
First question would be, are you running your app in Sandbox mode or Live mode?
If you are running in Sandbox mode and you registered your app after November 17th, then you most likely only have permission to fetch data from users that accepted your invitation to Sandbox. Therefore, you wont be able to get public content even if you specified public_content scope.
Take a look at official documentation page in the top corner you will find the announcement .
Recently, I wrote an app to synchronize photos in my Instagram to another platform. The GET /v1/users/self/media/recent?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN result should contains the links to my pictures, like
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/s640x640/e35/sh0.08/11330602_751572388302808_972254350_n.jpg,
and it went very well. But today after clicking the link, it told me Invalid Request. I'm not sure what happened to this cdn link. Any hints would be appreciated.