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

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The iOS Instagram app has now registered for regular http links to open in the Instagram app and this deeplink methodology is no longer necessary.

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Swift 4 short-code parsing solution

private static func instagramDeepLinkFromHTTPLink(_ link: String) -> String? {
    guard let shortcode = link.components(separatedBy: "/").last else { return nil }

    // algorithm from https://stackoverflow.com/a/37246231/337934
    let alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_"
    var mediaId: Int = 0
    for (_, char) in shortcode.enumerated() {
        guard let index = alphabet.index(of: char) else { continue }
        mediaId = (mediaId * 64) + index.encodedOffset
    }

    return "instagram://media?id=\(mediaId)"
}