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