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althonos / InstaLooter

Another API-less Instagram pictures and videos downloader.
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[Question] Getting information for an instagram id #81

Closed just1random closed 7 years ago

just1random commented 7 years ago

I know its possible to get user id for an username with python api, but can this be done vice-versa? Some instagram users change their username and im wondering if there is anyway to get their new username with their user id? (Or get their media with id instead of username?) Thank you very much for this great tool.

althonos commented 7 years ago

No, you can't do that in that order, since Instagram uses the username <-> id map internally. You could do it with an access to the IG API, but that's out of the scope of this program.

You can check this endpoint if you really need that feature.

just1random commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the replay. I was looking around and i found this php scraper and they wrote in description: "Instagram PHP Scraper. Get account information, photos, videos and comments without any authorization"

https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper

It has a "getAccountById" method which returns username I dont know php that much and i was wondering if they are using api for this or not. Please take a look if you have some time. Thank you. (sorry for poor english)