Interest graphs for a target account
What a person follows describes what they care about far better than their bio does. It is the fastest way to categorise an account you know nothing about.
Instagram API / Following
Instagram Following API — The Full Following List for a Public Account
Who an account follows — usually a sharper signal than who follows it, because following is a deliberate choice.
1 credit per request · request metadata included · errors are never charged
GET /v1/instagram/following1 creditcurl "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/instagram/following?handle=iamsydneythomas" \
-H "x-api-key: $INSCRAPE_KEY"Parameters
handlestringrequiredInstagram username, without the @cursorstringnext_cursor returned by the previous call
What you get
What the Instagram Following API returns.
- Handle, display name and profile picture per followed account
- Verification and privacy flags
- next_cursor for deep pagination
Use cases
Instagram Following API use cases.
Lookalike discovery
Take the accounts your best customers follow, count frequency across the set, and the top of that list is your next partnership shortlist.
Detecting follow-for-follow behaviour
An account following forty thousand others is not building an audience, it is farming one. This endpoint makes that instantly visible.
FAQ
Instagram Following API FAQ.
Why is this more useful than followers?
Following is intentional and small; followers is passive and large. For classification work, the following list gives you more signal per credit.
Same 2-credit cost as followers?
Yes, for the same reason — list pages are heavier to fetch than a single profile.
Is the ordering meaningful?
It matches what Instagram serves publicly, which is roughly recency-weighted. Do not treat it as a ranking.
Related endpoints
APIs commonly paired with following.
Instagram Followers Scraper
Paginate the real follower list of a public Instagram account, not just the count. Cursor based, 2 credits per page.
Instagram Profile Scraper
Get follower counts, bio, verification status and external links for any public Instagram profile. One REST call, no login, no Meta app review.
Instagram Search API
Search public Instagram accounts by keyword and get them ranked the way the app ranks them. One call, no login.
Back to the full Instagram API overview, or read the following endpoint documentation.