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Neeraj Garg
Neeraj Garg

Reputation: 705

Instagram API not providing more than 100 followers of a user?

I am trying to get followers of a users API using PHP:-

$id= "xxxxxxx";  
$access_token = "xxxxxx";
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/$id/followed-by?access_token=$access_token&count=500

but this only returns with 100 records max.I need to get all the followers and export them in a CSV sheet.

Do I need to purchase any premium plan for this or anything else?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1277

Answers (3)

km13oj
km13oj

Reputation: 54

For large accounts, it's really difficult to get a list of all followers because you can only get them 100 followers at a time (as you're finding). Some automated services will get a list of all your followers by requesting them 100 at a time using multiple tokens (https://www.crowdbabble.com/download-all-instagram-followers/).

Upvotes: 0

lcjury
lcjury

Reputation: 1258

Read the instagram endpoint documentation

Each response sent by Instagram is wrapped on a Envelope, inside of that you will get a "pagination" url that you can use to get the next set of data.

Sometimes you just can't get enough. For this reason, we've provided a convenient way to access more data in any request for sequential data. Simply call the url in the next_url parameter and we'll respond with the next set of data.

The response for the followed_by will return a json like this

{
    "meta": {
        "code": 200
    },
    "data": {
        ...
    },
    "pagination": {
        "next_url": "url for next 100 responses",
        "next_max_id": "13872296"
    }
}

Just make another request for Response->pagination->next_url

Upvotes: 3

krisrak
krisrak

Reputation: 12952

You have use pagination.next_url in API response to get more users.

If you just want to export any user's followers to csv, you can use gramfeed to browse and download as csv.

For example here is followers for instagram account, when u scroll down you will have an option to download as .csv, you can load all users and then download csv: http://www.gramfeed.com/instagram#followers

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Upvotes: 3

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