Get user profile — Instagram API

Returns profile information for an Instagram user including bio, follower counts, profile picture, and account metadata. Look up any public Instagram account by username, or pass ?userId= to look up by numeric user ID instead.

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GET/v1/instagram/users/{username}1 credit per request

Example response200OK

{
  "data": {
    "@context": [
      "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
      "https://konbiniapi.com/ns/social#"
    ],
    "type": "Person",
    "id": "https://www.instagram.com/khaby00/",
    "url": "https://www.instagram.com/khaby00/",
    "entityId": "779085683",
    "name": "Khabane Lame",
    "preferredUsername": "khaby00",
    "summary": "Just a guy who reacts",
    "attachment": [
      {
        "type": "Link",
        "name": "the tallest basketball player",
        "href": "https://linktr.ee/khabylame",
        "rel": "preferred"
      }
    ],
    "isPrivate": false,
    "isVerified": true,
    "isPaidVerified": false,
    "isBusiness": false,
    "isProfessional": true,
    "category": "Public figure",
    "pronouns": [
      "he/him"
    ],
    "hasVideos": true,
    "hasChannel": false,
    "hasMicroblog": true,
    "followerCount": 77560380,
    "followingCount": 1004,
    "mediaCount": 626,
    "videoCount": 120,
    "highlightCount": 10,
    "icon": {
      "type": "Image",
      "url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/avatar.jpg"
    },
    "image": [
      {
        "type": "Image",
        "url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/avatar.jpg"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Make the request.

One authenticated GET to /v1/instagram/users/{username}. Authentication and error conventions stay consistent across endpoints. This page shows the path, parameters, response shape, limits, and credit rule for this operation.

Built for

Influencer audience size and engagement rate verification
Brand account competitive intelligence and monitoring
Creator discovery for partnership and sponsorship vetting

Full reference for this endpoint

const response = await fetch("https://api.konbiniapi.com/v1/instagram/users/khaby00", {
  headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
});

const data = await response.json();

Parameters2

usernamerequiredIn · PathType · stringInstagram username (with or without @ symbol)
userIdIn · QueryType · stringLook up the account by its numeric Instagram user ID instead of its username. If you already have the ID (e.g. from a post or comment's attributedTo field in another response), passing it here returns the profile faster than a username lookup. When set, it overrides the username in the URL — any placeholder there works.

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