How to get instagram user details via api using python?

Question

Python

I need to get data about the user having his login. The documentation says this:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN

. But this method returns my own data and I need another user's data. Found this solution on google.

get('https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q=' + login + '/?access_token=' + api_key, verify=True).json()

. When run, the method returns a 400 error: {'meta': {'code': 400, 'error_type': 'OAuthAccessTokenException', 'error_message': 'The access_token provided is invalid.'}}. Is it possible to solve my problem? If yes please tell me how.

Answer 1

You are passing an invalid API access token, which is reported to you in the response from the server: "The access_token provided is invalid." You need to pass a valid token for your application.

Answer 2

To start:
/users/self - points to itself. therefore, you will get nothing but yourself here.
In what you found, there is already a different url.
I would do like this:

import requests

token = 'MY_TOKEN'

def get_user(user):
    params = {
        'access_token': token,
        'q': user
    }
    url = 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search'
    try:
         r = requests.get(url, params=params)
         result = r.json()
         return result
    except:
         return Exception