1080x1080 photos via Instagram API

Question

http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/6/8899807/instagram-1080p-pictures-photo-upload

The Verge recently made known the latest app versions of Instagram are uploading photo

Answer 1

The problem with instagram image URL's is that the URL signatures provided in the json responses expire after some time. My workaround for this problem is as follows:

Steps: 1. Get the instagram post link. Eg : https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo-Jru-g7Wa/

or if you don't have the link, the instagram api provides you with a permalink(image-code) option in the result array which for the above link is Bo-Jru-g7Wa

2. Now just add media?size=l after the url ie.,

Result: High quality image url:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo-Jru-g7Wa/media?size=l

you can see it in action here: https://jsfiddle.net/nmj1z7wo/fiddle URL

This link can be considered as a shorthand code to instagram image URL's which are very much bigger. Supported values for size are t (thumbnail), m (medium), l (large). Defaults to m.