Get basic information of instagram page

Question

I have number of instagram pages/urls of different users like https://instagram.com/xxxxx/ etc etc etc. I want to get following information of that page

name, number of followers, description, bio,

I have searched and all showing using access token. But I am confused if I will take access token from my account, how can I get information of other pages?

Please guide me how can I do that?

Answer 1

You need access token to work with Instagram API. So if you get an access token you can use Instagram API.

To get basic information about a user, use this:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/{user-id}/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN

{user-id} is NOT username. To get {user-id} from username, use this:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q=[USERNAME]&access_token=[ACCESS TOKEN]

To get access token use this:

https://instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=[CLIENT_ID_HERE]&redirect_uri=http://localhost&response_type=token

And finally the response would be something like:

{
    meta: {
        code: 200
    },
    data: {
        username: "lanadelrey",
        bio: "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help",
        website: "http://www.lanadelrey.com",
        profile_picture: "https://igcdn-photos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t51.2885-19/10948781_564619503641170_898618667_a.jpg",
        full_name: "Lana Del Rey",
        counts: {
            media: 114,
            followed_by: 4207076,
            follows: 78
        },
        id: "305506437"
    }
}