Instagram how to get my user id from username

Question

I m in the process of embedding my image feed in my website using JSON  the URL needs my user id so I can retrieve this feed   So  where can I find get my user id

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Easily Get USER ID and User Details

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q=[ USER NAME ]&client_id=[ YOU APP Client ID ]

For Example:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q=zeeshanakhter2009&client_id=enter_your_id

Result:

{"meta":{"code":200},"data":[{"username":"zeeshanakhter2009","bio":"http://about.me/zeeshanakhter","website":"http://zeeshanakhter.com","profile_picture":"http://images.ak.instagram.com/profiles/profile_202090411_75sq_1377878261.jpg","full_name":"Zeeshan Akhter","id":"202090411"}]}

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Currently there is no direct Instagram API to get user id from user name  You need to call the GET  users search API and then iterate the results and check if the username field value is equal to your username or not  then you grab the id

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Working Solution December 14  2020 For simple usage like 3rd party tools that require an Instagram user ID  like embedding an image feed  I tend to use  https   www thekeygram com find-instagram-user-id  because it makes it really easy to copy and paste the Instagram user ID that I am looking for  Unlike most tools I get the results fast  it s free and there are no ads  I recommend you watch the youtube video before using it so you can see how simple it is and get an idea of how it s used  https   www youtube com watch v 9HvOroY-YBw For more advanced usage I recommend  https   www instagram com  username     a 1  replace username with the requested username  For example to find the user ID of the username  quot instagram quot  you would use  https   www instagram com instagram    a 1 This is the most advanced way which returns a JSON response and it s great if you are building an app that requires the raw data  You can save it in a database or build some type of front end UI to display it  Example  for a dashboard or on a website  Also  using the url is great because you can get additional attributes about users such as their total follower count and profile bio

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Working solution without access token as of October-14-2018   Search for the username   https   www instagram com web search topsearch  query  lt username gt    Example   https   www instagram com web search topsearch  query therock   This is a search query  Find the exact matched entry in the reply and get user ID from the entry

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I tried all the aforementioned solutions and none works  I guess Instagram has accelerated their changes  I tried  however  the browser console method and played around a bit and found this command that gave me the user ID   window  sharedData entry data ProfilePage 0  graphql user id   You just visit a profile s page and enter this command in the console  You might need to refresh the page for this to work though   I had to post this as an answer  because of my low reputation

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Here is how you can retrieve your user id from a username    url    https   api instagram com v1 users search q  username  amp access token  your token     obj   json decode  file get contents  url    echo  obj- gt data 0 - gt id

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Here is a really easy website that works well for me   http   www instaid co uk   Or you can do the following replacing  username  with your Instagram username  https   www instagram com username    a 1  Or you can login to your Instagram account and use google dev tools and look at the cookies that have been stored   ds user id  is your user ID

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Although it s not listed on the API doc page anymore  I found a thread that mentions that you can use self in place of user-id for the users  user-id  endpoint and it ll return the currently authenticated user s info   So  users self is the same as an explicit call to users  some-user-id  and contains the user s id as part of the payload  Once you re authenticated  just make a call to users self and the result will include the currently authenticated user s id  like so          data              id    1574083            username    snoopdogg            full name    Snoop Dogg            profile picture    http   distillery s3 amazonaws com profiles profile 1574083 75sq 1295469061 jpg            bio    This is my bio            website    http   snoopdogg com            counts                  media   1320               follows   420               followed by   3410

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Most of these answers are invalid after the 6 1 2016 Instagram API changes  The best solution now is here  Go to your feed on instagram com  copy the link address for any of your pictures  and paste it into the textbox on that page  Worked like a charm

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Go to the api console   amp  copy link  https   api instagram com v1 users self  in text field and authenticate using your instagram id  amp  password  you will get your id in response

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I wrote this tool for retrieving Instagram IDs by username  Instagram User ID Lookup   It utilizes the python-instagram library to access the API and includes a link to the source code  written on Django   which illustrates various implementations of the Instagram API   Update  Added source code for port to Ruby on Rails

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You can do this by using Instagram API   User Endpoints   users search    how-to in php    function Request  url          ch   curl init        curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   url         curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1         curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  0           result   curl exec  ch        curl close  ch        return  result      function GetUserID  username   access token          url    https   api instagram com v1 users search q      username     amp access token      access token       if  result   json decode Request  url   true              return  result  data   0   id                  example  echo GetUserID  rathienth    access token

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Well you can just call this link  http   jelled com ajax instagram do username amp username  USER NAME GOES HERE  amp format json

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You need to use Instagrams API to convert your username to id   If I remember correctly you use users search to find the username and get the id from there

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If you are using implicit Authentication must have the problem of not being able to find the user id   I found a way for example    Access Token   1506417331 18b98f6 8a00c0d293624ded801d5c723a25d3ec  the User id is 1506417331  would you do a split single seperated by   obtenies to acces token and the first element

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First Create an Application on Instagram and get Client Id for your application  http   instagram com developer   Now just copy paste following Url into browser window by replacing your Username and your Client Id https   api instagram com v1 users search q  Your-username  amp client id  Your-Client-Id   you will get a Json Result containing General Information about your account along with your Numeric user Id

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Enter this url in your browser with the users name you want to find and your access token  https   api instagram com v1 users search q  USERNAME  amp access token  ACCESS TOKEN

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to get your id  make an authenticated request to the Instagram API users self feed endpoint  the response will contain  among other data  the username as well as the id of the user

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Most of the methods are obsolete since June  1 2016 api changes  Below worked for me    access instagram on your browser say chrome  safari or firefox     Launch developer tools  go to console option  on command prompt enter below command and hit enter   window  sharedData entry data ProfilePage 0  user id    If you are lucky  you will get at first attempt  if not  be patient  refresh the page and try again  keep doing until you see user-id  Good luck

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This can be done through apigee com Instagram API access here on Instagram s developer site  After loging in  click on the   users search  API call  From there you can search any username and retrieve its id      data           username    jack        first name    Jack        profile picture    http   distillery s3 amazonaws com profiles profile 66 75sq jpg        id    66        last name    Dorsey            username    sammyjack        first name    Sammy        profile picture    http   distillery s3 amazonaws com profiles profile 29648 75sq 1294520029 jpg        id    29648        last name    Jack            username    jacktiddy        first name    Jack        profile picture    http   distillery s3 amazonaws com profiles profile 13096 75sq 1286441317 jpg        id    13096        last name    Tiddy         If you already have an access code  it can also be done like this  https   api instagram com v1 users search q USERNAME amp access token ACCESS TOKEN

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I think the best  simplest and securest method is to open your instagram profile in a browser  view source code and look for user variable  ctrl f  user      inside main javascript code  The id number inside user variable should be your id    This is the code how it looked in the moment of writing this answer  it can  and probably will be changed in future     user    username         profile picture         id                full name

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https   api instagram com v1 users search q   USERNAME   amp access token  ACCESS TOKEN    Please notice the quotation marks   This does not always return a valid result but more often than non-quoted one   https   api instagram com v1 users search q  self  amp count 1 amp access token  ACCESS TOKEN     returns user  self   id  311176867   https   api instagram com v1 users search q self amp count 1 amp access token  ACCESS TOKEN    returns user  super selfie   id  1422944651

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Instead of using the API  one can examine the Instagram userpage to get the id  Example code in PHP    html   file get contents  http   instagram com  lt username gt      doc   new DOMDocument     doc- gt loadHTML  html     xpath   new DOMXPath  doc    js    xpath- gt query    body script  type  text javascript    - gt item 1 - gt nodeValue    start   strpos  js         end   strrpos  js         json   substr  js   start   end -  start     data   json decode  json  true    data    data  entry data    UserProfile   0     The  userMedia  entry of  data now has the same structure as the  data  field   in Instagram API responses to user endpoints queries  echo  data  user    id      Of course  this code has to be adapted if Instagram changes its page format

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Very late answer but I think this is the best answer of this topic  Hope this is useful   You can get user info when a request is made with the url below   https   www instagram com  username     a 1   E g   This url will get all information about a user whose username is therock  https   www instagram com therock    a 1     Update i June-20-2019  the API is public now  No authentication required   Update in December-11-2018  I needed to confirm that this endpoint still work  You need to login before sending request to this site because it s not public endpoint anymore  The login step is easy also  This is my demo  https   youtu be ec5QhwM6fvc    Update in Apr-17-2018  it s look like this endpoint still working  but its not public endpoint anymore   you must send a request with extra information to that endpoint   Press F12 to open developer toolbar  then click to Network Tab and trace the request    Sorry because I m too busy  Hope this information help you guys   Hmm  feel free to give me a down-vote if you want     Update in Apr-12-2018  cameronjonesweb said that this endpoint doesn t work anymore  When he she trying to access this endpoint  403 status code return

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Working solution  2018  I ve found that  providing you have an access token  you can perform the following request in your browser   https   api instagram com v1 users self access token  VALUE   In fact  access token contain the User ID  the first segment of the token     lt user-id gt  1677aaa aaa042540a2345d29d11110545e2499  You can get an access token by using this tool provided by Pixel Union

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