Get basic information about a user.

GET

/users/{user-id}

users

Get basic information about a user. To get information about the owner of the access token, you can use
self instead of the user-id.

Security scope public_content is required to read information about other users.

Request Example

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

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

Response Example

200 - Example 1

{
    "data": {
        "bio": "string",
        "counts": {
            "followed_by": 0,
            "follows": 0,
            "media": 0
        },
        "full_name": "string",
        "id": "string",
        "profile_picture": "string",
        "username": "string",
        "website": "string"
    },
    "meta": {
        "code": 0
    }
}

Request

Path Params

user-id

string

required

The ID of a user to get information about, or self to retrieve information about authenticated user.

Responses

🟢200User basic information.

application/json

Body

data

object (UserInfo)

optional

bio

string

optional

User biography

counts

object (UserCounts)

optional

full_name

string

optional

User full name

string

optional

User ID

profile_picture

string

optional

URL to user profile picture

username

string

optional

User name, nickname

website

string

optional

URL to user web-site