Get an Instagram location by id · Instagram API
Return an Instagram location page by its ID, including its name, coordinates, and category. Useful for resolving a place before pulling its tagged posts or nearby locations.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/instagram/locations/{id} \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"Parameters
- idpathrequired
- Numeric Instagram location id.
This operation is part of the Instagram API in the social platforms category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs Instagram public data alongside other social networks, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Look up public Instagram data for agents that need reliable open-web context.
- Give an AI agent a stable Instagram data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize Instagram responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
- The operation has a 10 credits ($0.01) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- A not-found or invalid-input condition uses the unified UnifAPI error shape, so callers do not need special handling for each source platform.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 10 credits ($0.01) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields in the data object
A successful Get an Instagram location by id call returns one data object with these fields.
- idstring
- namestring
- categorystring
- latnumber | null
- lngnumber | null
- citystring
- addressstring
- phonestring
- media_countnumber
Agents & Skills built on Instagram
You rarely call Get an Instagram location by id by hand. These prebuilt agents and skills already read Instagram data inside Claude or Codex — start from one of them, or call this endpoint yourself.
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