Instagram API

Search for a user by name.

GET

/users/search

users

Request Example

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

curl --location --request GET 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q='

Response Example

{
  "data": [
    {
      "full_name": "string",
      "id": "string",
      "profile_picture": "string",
      "username": "string"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "code": 0
  }
}

Request

Query Params

string

required

A query string.

count

integer

optional

Number of users to return.

Responses

🟢200List of found users.

application/json

Body

data

array[object (UserShortInfo) {4}]

optional

User short information entries

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