Get information about a media object.

GET

/media/{media-id}

media

Get information about a media object. The returned type key will allow you to differentiate between image and
video media.

Note: if you authenticate with an OAuth Token, you will receive the user_has_liked key which quickly tells
you whether the current user has liked this media item.

Request Example

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

curl --location --request GET 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/media/'

Response Example

{
    "data": {
        "attribution": "string",
        "caption": {
            "created_time": "string",
            "from": {
                "full_name": "string",
                "id": "string",
                "profile_picture": "string",
                "username": "string"
            },
            "id": "string",
            "text": "string"
        },
        "comments": {
            "count": 0,
            "data": [
                {
                    "created_time": "string",
                    "from": {
                        "full_name": "string",
                        "id": "string",
                        "profile_picture": "string",
                        "username": "string"
                    },
                    "id": "string",
                    "text": "string"
                }
            ]
        },
        "created_time": "string",
        "filter": "string",
        "id": "string",
        "images": {
            "low_resolution": {
                "height": 0,
                "url": "string",
                "width": 0
            },
            "standard_resolution": {
                "height": 0,
                "url": "string",
                "width": 0
            },
            "thumbnail": {
                "height": 0,
                "url": "string",
                "width": 0
            }
        },
        "likes": {
            "count": 0,
            "data": [
                {
                    "full_name": "string",
                    "id": "string",
                    "profile_picture": "string",
                    "username": "string"
                }
            ]
        },
        "link": "string",
        "location": {
            "id": "string",
            "latitude": 0,
            "longitude": 0,
            "name": "string"
        },
        "tags": [
            "string"
        ],
        "type": "image",
        "user": {
            "full_name": "string",
            "id": "string",
            "profile_picture": "string",
            "username": "string"
        },
        "user_has_liked": true,
        "users_in_photo": [
            {
                "position": {
                    "x": 0,
                    "y": 0
                },
                "user": {
                    "full_name": "string",
                    "id": "string",
                    "profile_picture": "string",
                    "username": "string"
                }
            }
        ],
        "videos": {
            "low_resolution": {
                "height": 0,
                "url": "string",
                "width": 0
            },
            "standard_resolution": {
                "height": 0,
                "url": "string",
                "width": 0
            }
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "code": 0
    }
}

Request

Path Params

media-id

string

required

The ID of the media resource.

Responses

🟢200Media resource information.

application/json

Body

data

object (MediaEntry)

optional

attribution

string

optional

??? Unknown ???

caption

object (CaptionData)

optional

comments

object (CommentsCollection)

optional

created_time

string

optional

Media creation UNIX timestamp

filter

string

optional

Filter of this media entry

string

optional

ID of a media entry

images

object (ImagesData)

optional

likes

object (LikesCollection)

optional

link

string

optional

Fixed URL of this media entry

location

object (LocationInfo)

optional