How to get media_id of a user

[Oyetomi]

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Describe your Question/Issue:

Hello Guys, I'm trying to get a users last post media_id, like this format 2431422900197522665_1985737254

Paste the output of python -V here: Python 3.8.5

Code:

# Example code that will produce the error reported
from instagram_web_api import Client

sources = ['wofaifada', 'timidakolo', 'auntyshaggi',] 
source = random.choice(sources)
  user_info = api.username_info(source)
  user_id = user_info['user']['pk']
  medias = api.user_feed(user_id,max_id=1)
  print(medias)
  media = medias[user["pk"]['media_id']]
  print(media)
Error/Debug Log:

```File "final.py", line 78, in follow
    media = medias[user["pk"]['media_id']]
NameError: global name 'user' is not defined

[Oyetomi]

@ping @jwtrhs @AndreaOrru please kindly help me out

[rageshhub]

You could take the shortcode and convert it into media id

Code:

def shortcode_to_media_id(shortcode):
    alp = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_'
    id = 0
    for i in range(0, len(shortcode)):
        char = shortcode[i]
        id = (id*64) + alp.index(char)
    return id