Get Instagram profile page from an id

Question

I have been using Factual Places & Crosswalk API to get Social Media links on some specific places on my iOS app. The API returns proper links for Facebook & Twitter. But for Instagram it just return an id, something like this 79471948.

I was wondering how I can make use of this id. I thought I could use it in a URL, something like this. http://instagram.com/79471948, But this does not exists.

Then I thought the id could be a user-id. If it is a user-id I wanna get the username of the corresponding user-id so that I open his profile page something like this http://instagram.com/79471948. But as we know that Instagram does not allow us to directly request for User Data without OAuth we can't get access token. Without getting access token, I cant get the username.

So do you guys have any suggestions? So the whole thing is, I have this id 79471948 and I wanna open up the corresponding profile without doing any OAuth.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

You have to use API to get the user profile from user-id.

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

https://www.picodash.com/@ allows you to search for a user-id and view the full profile or open actual instagram.com/username link and view.