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

You can do this by using Instagram API ( User Endpoints: /users/search )

how-to in php :

function Request($url) {

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);  
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);  

    $result = curl_exec($ch);

    curl_close($ch);

    return $result;

}

function GetUserID($username, $access_token) {

    $url = "https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q=" . $username . "&access_token=" . $access_token;

    if($result = json_decode(Request($url), true)) {

        return $result['data'][0]['id'];

    }

}

// example:
echo GetUserID('rathienth', $access_token);