You can find a lot of apps on the app store that show you who's blocked you, your followers list, etc.. But how come? The Instagram Basic Display API and even the Instagram GRAPH API are so limited nowadays. I can't find a way to get someone's followers list.
I now know that all of that information is aquired through Web Scraping.
Source: https://socialblade.com/blog/channels-track/
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I am building a website that shows their follower/audience insights to me.
I want to get follower-engagement, audience countries, age group etc for any user who authorized this data to my web-app
I am not finding anything for Instagram, I have found multiple resources for Facebook but not Instagram.
Any feedback on this will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
The Instagram API is not publicly available for the use case outlined in your question.
The available API is intended for Instagram Businesses and Creators who need insight into, and full control over, all of their social media interactions.
This is as far as you can go with it.
I'm a little bit confused about how to use the Instagram Graph API. Do I need a business/creator account as well as register my app to be approved by Facebook to use the API itself? Any other requirements? My goal for the app is to be able to enter in someone's Instagram handle and able to get back some information such as name, id, profile picture, followers, as well as metrics such as engagement rate and average likes. Is that possible without needing to be approved to use it by Facebook? Is there an easy way to get that information?
I am working on an app, which does the below:
A user logins using instagram User creates content and shares it with a subset of her instagram followers ( say 3 out of 200)
Those 3 users get a message in their insta inbox and can click on a link
and sign up on our app.
I am trying to find Insta API documentation, but I am unable to. Can someone experienced with Insta API's please guide to me to specific parts of the Instagram API documentation which can do What I am imagining?
Thanks
The thing that you are trying to create is not possible by using official Instagram APIs. None of the APIs returns the list of followers for given user. It is also not possible to send a Direct message via Instagram API.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api here is the introduction to Instagram Graph API. Right on the top of that page you will find possible use-case scenarios.
There is also more limited Basic Display API which documentation and possible use-cases you can find here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-basic-display-api
is there a way I can use the instagram API and check what users are visiting my instagram profile ?
For example, I'd like to develop something that tells you what users are visiting your profile the most on a weekly basis.
Thanks!
I'm not 100% sure but it might be possible now with the facebook insight graph API. It's basicly a new one where you can find data connection between facebook and instagram accounts. Mainly targeting business account thought.
I am new to instagram api usage but this website really thrills me:
https://web.stagram.com/How can this website access all the users profile details (of course only when they are public but still) ?!
They are most likely using the official Instagram API along with some other logic to find the most popular users and display their profile.
They could also be using the unofficial API (reverse engineered) to have untethered access to instagram.