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GET /api/v1/identity/user-id-from-username

User ID from username

Wandelt einen Username in die Instagram-User-ID um. Query: username.

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/instagram-api/api/v1/identity/user-id-from-username" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/instagram-api/api/v1/identity/user-id-from-username", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/instagram-api/api/v1/identity/user-id-from-username");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/instagram-api/api/v1/identity/user-id-from-username",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "user_id": "305701719",
        "username": "jlo"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-04T14:00:09.529Z",
        "request_id": "0c97d400-4954-4ba8-b871-67b02d01f70e"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "User ID retrieved successfully",
    "success": true
}