Best way to get Instagram image from oEmbed?

• Teun

• October 4, 2016 at 8:59 pm

What would be the best way to just get the image from an oEmbed field with an instagram url?

I tried using preg_match, like this:

<?php		$instagram = get_field( 'instagram' );

preg_match('/href="(.+?)"/', $instagram, $matches_url );
$src = $matches_url[1];	

preg_match('&/p(.*)/&', $src, $matches_id );
$id = $matches_id[1];
$id = str_replace( str_split( '?/' ), '', $id );

?>

<img src="https://instagram.com/p/<?php echo $id; ?>/media/?size=l" />

However, this seems to slow down my site quite a bit. Are there better alternatives for this?

Thanks!

• James

• October 5, 2016 at 11:49 am

Hi @teun

You can also get the URL instead of the embedded code by passing the format value to false like this:

<?php $instagram_url = get_field( 'instagram', false, false ); ?>

<img src="<?php echo $instagram_url; ?>media/?size=l" />

But the best way to get the image would be by using the API instead. This page should give you more idea about it: https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/media/.

I hope this helps 🙂

• Teun

• October 5, 2016 at 5:48 pm

I can’t believe it was that easy. Thanks!