Get Web Profile Info

Retrieve user web profile information by username.

Note: Please be aware that the responses from Get Web Profile Info and Get Info by id endpoints are different.

As of December 2023, this method no longer returns the user’s last 12 publications (the edges[] array is empty). Please consider using Get User Media / Get User Media by username / Get User Clips to retrieve user publications.

Params

Name	Type	Default	Description
username (required)	string	–	Username

Usage

Python

from rocketapi import InstagramAPI


instagram_api = InstagramAPI(token="your-api-key")
print(instagram_api.get_web_profile_info("kyliejenner"))

PHP

<?php
    require('vendor/autoload.php');
    use RocketAPI\InstagramAPI;

    $api = new InstagramAPI('your-api-key');

    $username = 'kanyewest';
    try {
        $user = $api->getWebProfileInfo($username);
        print_r($user);
    } catch (RocketAPI\Exceptions\NotFoundException $e) {
        echo "User $username not found\n";
    } catch (RocketAPI\Exceptions\BadResponseException $e) {
        echo "Can't get $username info from API\n";
    }

cURL

curl --request POST \
    --url https://v1.rocketapi.io/instagram/user/get_web_profile_info \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --header 'Authorization: Token your-api-key' \
    --data '{
        "username": "kyliejenner"
    }'

Response example

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