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(@azarius)
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Morning folks,

I have a physical dump of a device, and under user accounts it's showing me an Instagram User ID number… IE 18843535

I have found webpages that will show a UID when you input a username, but I want to go the other direction. Input the UID to get a username.

With FB you can just enter the UID in the URL path and it will pull up the profile, not the same for Instagram.

Any help?

tks

 
Posted : 18/07/2017 7:56 pm
(@jasonlee)
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Assuming this is a cellebrite dump, isnt the account information under analyzed data -> accounts ?

 
Posted : 18/07/2017 9:01 pm
(@azarius)
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Neg… All it's showing me is the UID - there's nothing I can find that specifies an actual account name… Weird eh?

 
Posted : 19/07/2017 4:56 pm
(@athulin)
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I have found webpages that will show a UID when you input a username, but I want to go the other direction. Input the UID to get a username.

With FB you can just enter the UID in the URL path and it will pull up the profile, not the same for Instagram.

Have you examined the call

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q=jack&access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN

which returns a list of users matching the query, provided you have a valid access token. I have not found the query syntax documented anywhere, but then I've only looked around very briefly.

An Instagram developer is likely to answer your question much faster.

The Instagram API is documented at https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/

 
Posted : 19/07/2017 7:16 pm
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