Instagram

Developer Documentation

Embedding Endpoints

We provide two simple ways to get information about a shared link in order to display a preview: an OEmbed endpoint and a simple URL append endpoint. Neither requires an access_token or client_id.

GET /oembed

http://api.instagram.com/oembed?url=http://instagr.am/p/BUG/ 
{
    provider_url: "http://instagr.am/"
    title: "Rays"
    url: "http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2010/10/02/7e4051fdcf1d45ab9bc1fba2582c0c6b_7.jpg"
    author_name: "danrubin"
    height: 612
    width: 612
    version: "1.0"
    author_url: "http://instagr.am/"
    provider_name: "Instagram"
    type: "photo"
}

Given a short link, returns information about the media associated with that link.

Parameters
url A short link, like http://instagr.am/p/BUG/.
callback A JSON callback to be invoked.
maxheight Maximum height of returned media.
maxwidth Maximum width of returned media.

GET http://instagr.am/p/shortcode/media

http://instagr.am/p/BUG/media/?size=t 
HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND
Location: http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2010/10/02/7e4051fdcf1d45ab9bc1fba2582c0c6b_6.jpg

Given a short link, issues a redirect to that media's JPG file.

Parameters
size One of t (thumbnail), m (medium), l (large). Defaults to m.