InsightSocial APIInstagram Following API reference
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Get a free API keycurl "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/instagram/following?handle=mrbeast" \ -H "x-api-key: $INSIGHTSOCIAL_API_KEY"
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: 50–100 credits. We reserve the ceiling when the call starts and charge what it actually used when it finishes.
Paginates by cursor: see Pagination.
Authorization
apiKey Your key from the dashboard. It starts with isk_.
In: header
Query Parameters
Instagram username without the @ symbol. Provide at least one of: handle, user_id.
Instagram numeric user ID. Use this for faster responses. Provide at least one of: handle, user_id.
Pagination cursor. Use the next_cursor from the previous response to fetch the next page.
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"
Set to 1 to get the price of this call without making it: data.dry_run carries credits_min and credits_max. Nothing is charged.
Value in
- "1"
Response Body
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curl -X GET "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/instagram/following"{ "success": true, "platform": "string", "endpoint": "string", "schema_version": "2", "pagination": { "next_cursor": "string", "has_more": true, "page_size": 0, "stopped_at": "since" }, "unavailable": [ "string" ], "credits_used": 0, "credits_remaining": 0, "request_id": "string", "cached": true, "idempotent_replay": true, "charge_reason": "string", "free_call": true, "data": { "items": [ { "author": { "id": "string", "username": "string", "display_name": "string", "avatar_url": "http://example.com", "bio": "string", "verified": true, "followers": 0, "followers_approximate": true, "following": 0, "posts_count": 0, "likes_count": 0, "url": "http://example.com", "location": "string", "external_url": "http://example.com", "private": true, "joined_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z", "last_post_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z", "ext": { "property1": null, "property2": null } } } ], "total": 0, "truncated": true, "ext": { "property1": null, "property2": null } }}