instagram-id-to-url-segment
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Convert Instagram post IDs into Instagram links, algorithmically
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Instagram Id To URL Segment
Instagram has 2 types of IDs that they use for their posts. One is used in the URLs (it looks like 5n7dDmhTr3
) and the other is used internally in their undocumented API (it looks like 1038059720608660215
).
I didn't think that they would maintain 2 unrelated IDs for each post, just for the purpose of a shorter URL, so I investigated whether or not they were related. It turns out you can convert between them pretty easily (especially in languages where we don't represent integers as floats - like Python).
Usage
Note: the id must be passed in as a string. If it was passed as a number then it would be severely rounded.
CoffeeScript
{instagramIdToUrlSegment, urlSegmentToInstagramId} = require 'instagram-id-to-url-segment'
console.log(instagramIdToUrlSegment('1038059720608660215')) # 5n7dDmhTr3
console.log(urlSegmentToInstagramId('5n7dDmhTr3')) # 1038059720608660215
JavaScript
var ref, urlSegmentToInstagramId, instagramIdToUrlSegment;
ref = require('instagram-id-to-url-segment')
instagramIdToUrlSegment = ref.instagramIdToUrlSegment
urlSegmentToInstagramId = ref.urlSegmentToInstagramId;
console.log(instagramIdToUrlSegment('1038059720608660215')); // 5n7dDmhTr3
console.log(urlSegmentToInstagramId('5n7dDmhTr3')); // 1038059720608660215