Where do I find the Instagram media ID of a image

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I m am looking for the MediaID of an Instagram image which has been uploaded  It should look like      1234567894561231236 33215652   I have found out the last set of integers are the usersID  For example  this is the link for the image directly  however I see no mediaID in the correct format   http   distilleryimage11 ak instagram com d33aafc8b55d11e2a66b22000a9f09de 7 jpg   while this is the link  http   instagram com p Y7GF-5vftL    I don t wish to use the API as all I need the MediaID from a selected image

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You can actually derive the MediaId from the last segment of the link algorithmically using a method I wrote about here: http://carrot.is/coding/instagram-ids. It works by mapping the URL segment by character codes & converting the id into a base 64 number.

For example, given the link you mentioned (http://instagram.com/p/Y7GF-5vftL), we get the last segment (Y7GF-5vftL) then we map it into character codes using the base64 url-safe alphabet (24:59:6:5:62:57:47:31:45:11_64). Next, we convert this base64 number into base10 (448979387270691659).

If you append your userId after an _ you get the full id in the form you specified, but since the MediaId is unique without the userId you can actually omit the userId from most requests.

Finally, I made a Node.js module called instagram-id-to-url-segment to automate this conversion:

convert = require('instagram-id-to-url-segment');
instagramIdToUrlSegment = convert.instagramIdToUrlSegment;
urlSegmentToInstagramId = convert.urlSegmentToInstagramId;

instagramIdToUrlSegment('448979387270691659'); // Y7GF-5vftL
urlSegmentToInstagramId('Y7GF-5vftL'); // 448979387270691659

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Here s an even better way   No API calls   And I threw in converting a media id to a shortcode as an added bonus   Based on slang s amazing work for figuring out the conversion   Nathan s work converting base10 to base64 in php   And rgbflawed s work converting it back the other way  with a modified alphabet    teameffort  function mediaid to shortcode  mediaid        if strpos  mediaid           false            pieces   explode       mediaid            mediaid    pieces 0            userid    pieces 1               alphabet    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-         shortcode           while  mediaid  gt  0            remainder    mediaid   64           mediaid     mediaid- remainder    64           shortcode    alphabet  remainder     shortcode              return  shortcode      function shortcode to mediaid  shortcode         alphabet  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-          mediaid   0       foreach str split  shortcode  as  letter             mediaid     mediaid 64    strpos  alphabet   letter              return  mediaid

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Your media ID is  448979387270691659 45818965 This is how to get it    Go to instgram com username  Click the photo you want the id of   Chrome instructions  right click on the photo  should be a popup image  Inspect element Search through the selected text  you should see something like this photo448979387270691659 45818965   There should be your photo ID   For some reason  this only seems to work with the popup  and not the actual image URL

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If you add    a 1 at the end of Instagram public URLs  you get the data of the public URL in JSON   For the media ID of an image from post URL  simply add the JSON request code at the post URL   http   instagram com p Y7GF-5vftL    a 1  The response will look like this below  You can easily recover the image ID from the  id  parameter in the reply        graphql      shortcode media        typename    GraphImage    id    448979387270691659    shortcode    Y7GF-5vftL    dimensions      height   612   width   612     gating info   null   fact check information   null   media preview   null   display url    https   scontent-cdt1-1 cdninstagram com vp 6d4156d11e92ea1731377ef53324ce28 5E4D451A t51 2885-15 e15 11324452 400723196800905 116356150 n jpg  nc ht scontent-cdt1-1 cdninstagram com amp  nc cat 109    display resources

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For a period I had to extract the Media ID myself quite frequently  so I wrote my own script  very likely it s based on some of the examples here   Together with other small scripts I used frequently  I started to upload them on www findinstaid com for my own quick access    I added the option to enter a username to get the media ID of the 12 most recent posts  or to enter a URL to get the media ID of a specific post   If it s convenient  everyone can use the link  I don t have any adds or any other monetary interests in the website - I only have a referral link on the  Audit  tab to www auditninja io which I do also own  but also on this site  there are no adds or monetary interests - just hobby projects

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So the most up-voted  Better Way  is a little deprecated so here is my edit and other solutions   Javascript   jQuery    ajax       type   GET       url   http   api instagram com oembed callback  amp url   Url    You must define  Url  for yourself     cache  false      dataType   json       jsonp  false      success  function  data           var MediaID   data media id             PHP   your url        Input your url  api   file get contents  http   api instagram com oembed callback  amp url     your url          media id   json decode  api true   media id      So  this is just an updated version of  George s code and is currently working  However  I made other solutions  and some even avoid an ajax request     Shortcode Ajax Solution  Certain Instagram urls use a shortened url syntax  This allows the client to just use the shortcode in place of the media id if requested properly   An example shortcode url looks like this  https   www instagram com p Y7GF-5vftL   The Y7GF-5vftL is your shortcode for the picture   Using Regexp   var url    https   www instagram com p Y7GF-5vftL      Define this yourself var Key    p            exec url  1     In the same scope  Key will contain your shortcode  Now to request  let s say  a low res picture using this shortcode  you would do something like the following         ajax           type   GET           dataType   json           url   https   api instagram com v1 media shortcode     Key     access token     access token    Define your  access token          success  function  RawData                var LowResURL   RawData data images low resolution url                      There is lots of other useful information  including the media id  in the returned RawData structure  Log it or look up the api documentation to see     Shortcode Conversion Solution  You can actually convert your shortcode to the id fairly easily  Here s a simple way to do it in javascript   function shortcodeToInstaID Shortcode          var char        var id   0        var alphabet    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-          for  var i   0  i  lt  Shortcode length  i                char   Shortcode i             id    id   64    alphabet indexOf char                 return id        Note  If you want a more robust node js solution  or want to see how you would convert it back  check out  Slang s module on npm     Full Page Solution  So what if you have the URL to a full Instagram page like  https   www instagram com p BAYYJBwi0Tssh605CJP2bmSuRpm Jt7V S8q9A0   Well  you can actually read the HTML to find a meta property that contains the Media ID  There are also a couple other algorithms you can perform on the URL itself to get it  but I believe that requires too much effort so we will keep it simple  Either query the meta tag al ios url or iterate through the html  Since reading metatags is posted all over  I ll show you how to iterate    NOTE  This is a little unstable and is vulnerable to being patched  This method does NOT work on a page that uses a preview box  So if you give it the current HTML when you click on a picture in someone s profile  this WILL break and return a bad Media ID   function getMediaId HTML String      var MediaID         var e   HTML String indexOf  al ios url     42    HTML String is a variable that contains all of the HTML text as a string for the current document  There are many different ways to retrieve this so look one up     for  var i   e  i  lt   e   100  i        100 should never come close to being reached       if  request source charAt i                    break        MediaID    request source charAt i         return MediaID        And there you go  a bunch of different ways to use Instagram s api to get a Media ID  Hope one fixes your struggles

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Here is python solution to do this without api call   def media id to code media id       alphabet    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-       short code          while media id  gt  0          remainder   media id   64         media id    media id-remainder  64         short code   alphabet remainder    short code     return short code   def code to media id short code       alphabet    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-       media id   0      for letter in short code          media id    media id 64    alphabet index letter       return media id

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Try the solution from this question  How can I get an direct Instagram link from a twitter entity      You can get just the image by appending  media  to the URL  Using your           You can even specify a size          One of t  thumbnail   m  medium   l  large   Defaults to m       So for a thumbnail  http   instagr am p QC8hWKL 4K media  size t

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Instagram deprecated their legacy APIs in support for Basic Display API during the late 2019 In Basic Display API you are supposed to use the  following API endpoint to get the media id  You will need to supply a valid access token  https   graph instagram com me media fields id caption amp access token  access-token   You can read here on how to configure test account and generate access token on Facebook developer portal  Here is another article which also describes about how to get access token

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You can use the shortcode media API from instagram  If you use php you can use the following code to get the shortcode from the image s URL    matches        preg match   instagram  com  p           i    url   matches    if  count  matches   gt  1         shortcode    matches 1       Then send a request to the API using your access token  Replace ACCESS-TOKEN with your token    apiUrl   sprintf  https   api instagram com v1 media shortcode  s access token ACCESS-TOKEN    shortcode

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Same thing you can implement in Python-   import requests json  def get media id media url      url    https   api instagram com oembed  callback  amp url     media url    response   requests get url  json      print response  media id     get media id  MEDIA URL

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edit  The iOS Instagram app has now registered for regular http links to open in the Instagram app and this deeplink methodology is no longer necessary   old  Swift 4 short-code parsing solution  private static func instagramDeepLinkFromHTTPLink   link  String  - gt  String        guard let shortcode   link components separatedBy       last else   return nil           algorithm from https   stackoverflow com a 37246231 337934     let alphabet    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-       var mediaId  Int   0     for     char  in shortcode enumerated             guard let index   alphabet index of  char  else   continue           mediaId    mediaId   64    index encodedOffset            return  instagram   media id   mediaId

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Here s a better way   http   api instagram com oembed url http   instagram com p Y7GF-5vftL    Render as json object and you can easily extract media id from it ---  For instance  in PHP   api   file get contents  http   api instagram com oembed url http   instagram com p Y7  GF-5vftL            apiObj   json decode  api true          media id    apiObj  media id      For instance  in JS    ajax            type   GET            url   http   api instagram com oembed callback  amp url http   instagram com p Y7GF-5vftL               cache  false           dataType   jsonp            success  function data                       try                            var media id   data 0  media id                     catch err

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In pure JS  provided your browser can handle XHRs  which every major browser  including IE   6  can    function igurlretrieve url       var urldsrc    http   api instagram com oembed url     url       fetch data from URL data source   var x   new XMLHttpRequest      x open  GET   urldsrc  true     x send         load resulting JSON data as JS object   var urldata   JSON parse x responseText        reconstruct data as  instagram     URL that can be opened in iOS app   var reconsturl    instagram   media id     urldata media id    return reconsturl       Provided this is your goal -- simply opening the page in the Instagram iOS app  which is exactly what this is about -- this should do  especially if you don t want to have to endure licensing fees

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Right click on a photo and open in a new tab window  Right click on inspect element  Search for      instagram   media id    This will give you      instagram   media id                   the ID   The full id construct from  photoID userID  To get the user id  search for      instapp owner user id Will be in content

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