How to get information about an instagram account?

Question

API

The essence of the task is as follows, there is a link to the client's instagram account. And you need to get data from the page (for example, a link to an avatar, name, description, etc.). What is the possibility to implement it?

Answer 1

To do this, use the native instagram api
https://www.instagram.com/developer/

Answer 2

Stupidly parse the page with a regular expression

Answer 3

I wrote a small library for such a case ( link to github ). It turned out to be only 2Kb and does not require access_token and client_id from Instagram.