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