[InstagramBridge] Track username change ?

[AntoineTurmel]

When an instagram user changes his username, this broke the feed and there is no way to find out who is the new username. Is it possible to parse the id of the account to get the new username if the old one fails ?

[AntoineTurmel]

Ok so it would involve first storing the user id which is fairly simple because it's on the source of the user page, but then if you want to get the username from the ID you need to use either the official API or a scraper who need to login: https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper

[logmanoriginal]

I don't see any credentials in these examples, so it might be possible without authentication:

• https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper/blob/master/examples/getAccountById.php
• https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper/blob/master/examples/getAccountByUsername.php

That being said, changing user names should be very rare, so caching and tracking might not be worth the effort. Especially when taking into consideration that bridges are not supposed to do caching right now.

For now I'll mark this as a blocked feature request. Future changes could make this easier to implement.

[dvikan]

Is this still relevant? Rare event this is.

[logmanoriginal]

This is a use case for #1380

[dvikan]

@Tokariew perhaps you want to take a stab at this

[Tokariew]

@Tokariew perhaps you want to take a stab at this

sorry, my main account was banned, so currently don't have account to test but if this not require authorization i will check on some weekend