I want to link to a profile/user account on Instagram. I have the user ID, but the I can't find the answer in the developer API documentation. I've tried instagram/userID and instagram/users/userID but these aren't working. Simple question: I have just a single <a> tag and I want to know what goes in the href to take the user to a specific instagram profile. Or possibly a window.location in javascript.

Or if there's a way to get the username from the ID, I suppose I could also do it in that round-a-bout way...

I want to link to a profile/user account on Instagram. I have the user ID, but the I can't find the answer in the developer API documentation. I've tried instagram.com/userID and instagram.com/users/userID but these aren't working. Simple question: I have just a single <a> tag and I want to know what goes in the href to take the user to a specific instagram profile. Or possibly a window.location in javascript.

Or if there's a way to get the username from the ID, I suppose I could also do it in that round-a-bout way...

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• instagram

• Do you need any more help with your question or did one of the answers already help you solve it. If so, please remember to accept it. Otherwise I'll try to help. – Tim Bodeit Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 22:10
• @TimBodeit The answers did not help. I ended up using the user name instead of ID. – smilebomb Commented Sep 3, 2013 at 12:54
• Yes there is a quick way. Answered in here – Hapsher Commented Apr 13, 2018 at 12:34
• stackoverflow.com/questions/59526137/… – Amrut Bidri Commented Dec 30, 2019 at 6:27

8 Answers 8

I am not aware of a solution, that makes it work as a simple link.

You will need to use the Instagram API and sign up your application so that you have a Client-ID.

Next, you will need to do the following request as HTTP GET:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/userID?client_id=YourClientID

This will return a JSON-Result, which will contain the username inside the data section.

Now you can use http://instagram.com/username as your link.

1st Method

<a href="http://instagram.com/_u/{USERNAME}/">Link to Instagram Page</a>

• Ask user to select application to launch with

2nd Method

<a href="instagram://user?username={USERNAME}">Link to Instagram Profile</a>

• If user installed instagram application : Directly launch page with native application
• If user not installed instagram application : Do nothing

Tested on Android 4.4 Chrome

try

async function insta(uid) {
  let api = `https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/${uid}/info/`
  let info = await (await fetch(api)).json();
  return `https://www.instagram.com/${info.user.username}`;
}

async function go() {
  let url = await insta(userId.value);
  link.innerText = url;
}

Type instagram user id:
<input id="userId" value=182805585 />
<button onclick="go()">Find username</button><br>
<pre id="link"></pre>

According this starting form 03.12.2019 above solution stops works and returns only

{“message”: “useragent mismatch”, “status”: “fail”}

instead you can try to send request GET

https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/1791879548/info/

with following user-agent header:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148 Instagram 105.0.0.11.118 (iPhone11,8; iOS 12_3_1; en_US; en-US; scale=2.00; 828x1792; 165586599)

https://www.instagram.com/p/" . $social_id . "/"

async function insta(uid) {
  let api = `https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/${uid}/info/`
  let info = await (await fetch(api)).json();
  return `https://www.instagram.com/${info.user.username}`;
}

async function go() {
  let url = await insta(userId.value);
  link.innerText = url;
}

Type instagram user id:
<input id="userId" value=182805585 />
<button onclick="go()">Find username</button><br>
<pre id="link"></pre>

async function insta(uid) {
  let api = `https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/${uid}/info/`
  let info = await (await fetch(api)).json();
  return `https://www.instagram.com/${info.user.username}`;
}

async function go() {
  let url = await insta(userId.value);
  link.innerText = url;
}

Type instagram user id:
<input id="userId" value=182805585 />
<button onclick="go()">Find username</button><br>
<pre id="link"></pre>

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async function insta(uid) {
  let api = `https://https://instagram.com/priyasharma_officle?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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/api/v1/users/${uid}/info/`
  let info = await (await fetch(api)).json();
  return `https://www.instagram.com/${info.user.username}`;
}

async function go() {
  let url = await insta(userId.value);
  link.innerText = url;
}

Type instagram user id:
<input id="userId" value=https://instagram.com/priyasharma_officle?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==/>
<button onclick="go()">Find username</priyasharma_officle><br>
<pre id="link"></pre>

You can also use this: https://instagram.com/user/?id={USER_ID}