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Instagram user location with api

How can i find user location on intagram api ? instagram endpoints have this uri : https://api.instagram.com/v1/locations/{location-id}?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN

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Solution

  • You can approximate the location of a user by exploiting the location services on the media feed. That is, you can pull the location tag from one or more of the desired user's posted images. You could then use all the user's images to come up with an approximate location or something like that.

    Note that not every image has a location tag, and some user's have location services turned completely off, in which case no images will be tagged. But you can do it like this:

    using the image id for one of @instagram's images that has a location. then connecting to the instagram api using the python library to get info on that image. then accessing the images location.

    image_id = '976907440786573124_25025320'
image_info = api.media(image_id)
lat = image_info.location.point.latitude
lon = image_info.location.point.longitude
print (lat,lon)

    gives the result (51.565501504,-0.089821461)