InsightSocial API
Instagram

Following

GET
/v1/instagram/following

Returns the accounts a user follows, each with username, display name, avatar URL, verification status, and profile URL.

Use it for the other side of the graph from followers: the accounts this user chose to follow.

Metered: 100–200 credits. We reserve the ceiling when the call starts and charge what it actually used when it finishes.

Re-running the exact same call within 6h is free.

Paginates by cursor — see Pagination.

Authorization

apiKey
x-api-key<token>

Your key from the dashboard. It starts with isk_.

In: header

Query Parameters

handle?string

Instagram username without the @ symbol. Provide at least one of: handle, user_id.

user_id?string

Instagram numeric user ID. Use this for faster responses. Provide at least one of: handle, user_id.

cursor?string

Pagination cursor. Use the next_cursor from the previous response to fetch the next page.

coverage?"full"

Send full to walk a merged list: accounts are added from several reads of the list and no account appears twice inside a page, until the rows reach the profile's count in data.total. On the pages one source covered on its own a handful of accounts can repeat across consecutive pages; wherever that source cannot cover the list the merged walk runs instead, and it never returns an account it has already given you. Requires handle. A page usually takes about 8 seconds and can take up to about 45, and a 503 is retried with the same cursor. A cursor from this mode only continues this mode.

Value in

  • "full"

Response Body

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curl -X GET "https://example.com/v1/instagram/following"
{  "success": true,  "platform": "instagram",  "endpoint": "/v1/instagram/profile/posts",  "data": {    "items": [      "…"    ],    "dropped": 0  },  "pagination": {    "next_cursor": "is2.eyJwIjoyfQ",    "has_more": true,    "page_size": 12  },  "credits_used": 20,  "credits_remaining": 9980,  "request_id": "req_1a2b3c4d5e6f",  "cached": false,  "idempotent_replay": false,  "charge_reason": "miss",  "free_call": false}

Followers GET

Returns the accounts that follow a user, each with username, display name, avatar URL, verification status, and profile URL. Use it to walk an account's follower list, passing either handle or user_id and paging deeper with the cursor it returns. **Metered: 100–200 credits.** We reserve the ceiling when the call starts and charge what it actually used when it finishes. Re-running the exact same call within 6h is free. Paginates by `cursor` — see [Pagination](/docs/pagination).

Highlight › Detail GET

Returns the individual stories saved inside one highlight, with their media URLs, timestamps, and interaction counts. Use it after highlights: pass the id it returned to see the contents of a single collection. **20 credits** per call. Re-running the exact same call within 6h is free.