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Getting facebook place id from instagram place

I know from the documentation of the instagram API that instagram has facebook locations mapped so you can search and get the location detail from instagram via facebook place id i.e.

https://api.instagram.com/v1/locations/search?facebook_places_id=273471170716&access_token=[ACCESS-TOKEN]

As you can see I am retreiving the location detail via facebook place id.

But in my scenario, what I want is to get facebook place id using instagram id from the instagram location detail. Below is what I mean:

I have got the instagram location id and can get the detail of the place using the following:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/locations/2862169?access_token=[ACCESS-TOKEN]

But the above call only returns the location name and geographic co-ordinates. Whereas I want the Facebook place id of the location as well. Is there any way for me to get the facebook place id from the instagram as well?

I have checked their documentation on Location endpoints (https://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/locations/) and wasn't able to find any relevant information.

The reason why I want that is, I need to get the location detail such as category etc as well which instagram API doesn't provide, so I plan on using this retrieved facebook place id on facebook graph API to retrieve this additional location details.

Solution

  • I think you can only use the Facebook Graph API search for this. Therefore, you can use the output from the Instagram API for latitude, longitude and name to construct a Graph API call which returns you a list of matching Facebook Place Pages.

    If the Instagram location id is 788029 for example, the API will return the following JSON:

    {
    "id": "788029",
    "latitude": 48.858844300000001,
    "longitude": 2.2943506,
    "name": "Eiffel Tower, Paris"
}

    So, if you take this result and use the data to construct a Facebook Graph API search url, it will result in something like this:

    https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=Eiffel%20Tower,%20Paris&type=place&center=48.858844300000001,2.2943506&distance=100&limit=3&access_token={app_access_token}

    You can choose the distance as well as the limit as you desire. If you set limit=1 you will only receive the place which Facebook deems to be the best match. Replace {app_access_token} with an actual App Access Token.

    The Facebook response will be something like

    {
  "data": [
    {
      "category": "Local business", 
      "category_list": [
        {
          "id": "276651312419490", 
          "name": "Monument"
        }
      ], 
      "location": {
        "street": "", 
        "city": "Paris", 
        "state": "", 
        "country": "France", 
        "zip": "75007", 
        "latitude": 48.858385562198, 
        "longitude": 2.2944861654879, 
        "located_in": "141184112585566"
      }, 
      "name": "Level 2 Eiffel Tower, Paris", 
      "id": "380503552017025"
    }, 
    {
      "category": "Local business", 
      "category_list": [
        {
          "id": "186825111351005", 
          "name": "Tourist Attraction"
        }
      ], 
      "location": {
        "street": "", 
        "city": "Paris", 
        "state": "", 
        "country": "France", 
        "zip": "", 
        "latitude": 48.858205346341, 
        "longitude": 2.2944900587791
      }, 
      "name": "Eiffel Tower Sommett, Paris, France", 
      "id": "1458706024363987"
    }, 
    {
      "category": "Restaurant/cafe", 
      "category_list": [
        {
          "id": "168976549819329", 
          "name": "French Restaurant"
        }
      ], 
      "location": {
        "street": "", 
        "city": "Paris", 
        "state": "", 
        "country": "France", 
        "zip": "75007", 
        "latitude": 48.858532957713, 
        "longitude": 2.2941094631632, 
        "located_in": "141184112585566"
      }, 
      "name": "58 Tour Eiffel (officiel)", 
      "id": "148894855169991"
    }
  ], 
  "paging": {
    "next": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/search?limit=3&type=place&q=Eiffel Tower, Paris&center=48.858844300000001,2.2943506&distance=100&offset=3&__after_id=enc_AdCYS3bVKOc29JFMrqlsouSZCvBxUTYZC7nHvqDHKAiBNrOs2ehUIaOsJ2wL9TxF9KOfgGmqEPOaLwotDM4pIUqyFf"
  }
}

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