Where do I find the Instagram media ID of a image

Question

I\'m am looking for the MediaID of an Instagram image which has been uploaded. It should look like

1234567894561231236_33215652

Answer 1

Here is python solution to do this without api call.

def media_id_to_code(media_id):
    alphabet = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_'
    short_code = ''
    while media_id > 0:
        remainder = media_id % 64
        media_id = (media_id-remainder)/64
        short_code = alphabet[remainder] + short_code
    return short_code


def code_to_media_id(short_code):
    alphabet = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_'
    media_id = 0;
    for letter in short_code:
        media_id = (media_id*64) + alphabet.index(letter)

    return media_id