Instagram Posts API

Access Instagram posts and media for content analysis, trend spotting, and social media strategy.

Python

Instagram User Posts

1	import requests
2
3	root = "https://ensembledata.com/apis"
4	endpoint = "/instagram/user/posts"
5	params = {
6	"user_id": 18428658,
7	"depth": 1,
8	"oldest_timestamp": 1666262030,
9	"chunk_size": 10,
10	"start_cursor": "",
11	"alternative_method": False,
12	"token": "YOUR-TOKEN-HERE"
13	}
14
15	res = requests.get(root+endpoint, params=params)
16	print(res.json())
17

Parameters

user_id (integer) ID of the user. REQUIRED

depth (integer) Abstraction of the API pagination. Depth 1 returns X results, depth N returns N * X results. Note that the exact number of results per depth (X) may differ per endpoint. Please refer to the specific endpoint description for more information. REQUIRED

oldest_timestamp (integer) This parameter is used as a stopping condition for fetching posts. If a post older than the provided `oldest_timestamp` is found, the system will stop fetching posts and return the results. For instance, if depth is 10, the system will aim to send 10 requests. However, if an `oldest_timestamp` is set, and we find a post which is older than the `oldest_timestamp`, the system will not send any more requests and return the results. Note: we do not filter out posts older than the provided `oldest_timestamp` before returning the results. Please do this filtering in your own integration if required.

chunk_size (integer) The number of posts to fetch per depth. If alternative_method=False, the maximum allowed chunk_size is 20. If alternative_method=True, the maximum chunk_size is 12.

start_cursor (string) Parameter to manually handle pagination. Each response contains a `last_cursor` which can be used to retrieve the next page of results by sending it as the next `start_cursor`. If the `last_cursor` is not present in the response, it means that there are no more results to retrieve.

alternative_method (boolean) If true, use a different method to fetch the user posts from the ID (this method returns at least 1 non pinned post when `start_cursor` is an empty string). The response JSON will be differ from the default method.

token (string) Private token assigned to each client to access the APIs. REQUIRED

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