Instagram how to get my user id from username?

Question

I\'m in the process of embedding my image feed in my website using JSON, the URL needs my user id so I can retrieve this feed.

So, where can I find/get my user id?

Answer 1

Working solution without access token as of October-14-2018:

Search for the username:

https://www.instagram.com/web/search/topsearch/?query=

Example:

https://www.instagram.com/web/search/topsearch/?query=therock

This is a search query. Find the exact matched entry in the reply and get user ID from the entry.