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https://github.com/notslang/instagram-id-to-url-segment

Convert Instagram post IDs into Instagram links, algorithmically
https://github.com/notslang/instagram-id-to-url-segment

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Convert Instagram post IDs into Instagram links, algorithmically

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/notslang/instagram-id-to-url-segment
Owner: notslang
License: gpl-3.0
Created: 2015-07-30T01:34:31.000Z (over 9 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2021-05-11T21:41:01.000Z (over 3 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-12-27T17:23:22.964Z (about 1 month ago)
Language: CoffeeScript
Size: 141 KB
Stars: 71
Watchers: 7
Forks: 16
Open Issues: 4
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

        # Instagram Id To URL Segment

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Instagram has 2 types of IDs that they use for their posts. One is used in the URLs (it looks like `5n7dDmhTr3`) and the other is used internally in their undocumented API (it looks like `1038059720608660215`).

I didn't think that they would maintain 2 unrelated IDs for each post, just for the purpose of a shorter URL, so I [investigated whether or not they were related](http://carrot.is/coding/instagram-ids). It turns out you can convert between them pretty easily (especially in languages where we don't represent integers as floats - like Python).

## Usage

Note: the id must be passed in as a string. If it was passed as a number then it would be severely rounded.

### CoffeeScript

```coffee

{instagramIdToUrlSegment, urlSegmentToInstagramId} = require 'instagram-id-to-url-segment'

console.log(instagramIdToUrlSegment('1038059720608660215')) # 5n7dDmhTr3

console.log(urlSegmentToInstagramId('5n7dDmhTr3')) # 1038059720608660215

```

### JavaScript

```js

var ref, urlSegmentToInstagramId, instagramIdToUrlSegment;

ref = require('instagram-id-to-url-segment');

instagramIdToUrlSegment = ref.instagramIdToUrlSegment;

urlSegmentToInstagramId = ref.urlSegmentToInstagramId;

console.log(instagramIdToUrlSegment('1038059720608660215')); // 5n7dDmhTr3

console.log(urlSegmentToInstagramId('5n7dDmhTr3')); // 1038059720608660215

```