# API - Instagram

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/api-instagram/37909
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [January 31, 2022, 2:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/api-instagram/37909 "2022-01-31T02:38:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Wander\_Ferreira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/wander_ferreira/32/26408_2.png) [@Wander\_Ferreira](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Wander_Ferreira)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 2:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/api-instagram/37909/1 "2022-01-31T02:38:13Z")

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I was thinking of getting metric data from my Instagram account, but I don’t know if it’s possible with Glide. Has anyone tried something like this?

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### Author: ![Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gregory/32/21180_2.png) [@Gregory](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Gregory)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/api-instagram/37909/2 "2022-01-31T13:32:16Z")

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Hi @Wander_Ferreira ,

maybe you can use integromat’s “instagram for business” integration and trigger it with a webhook in glide so that insta fills your google sheet:  
[Instagram for Business Integrations | Integromat](https://www.integromat.com/en/integrations/instagram-business)

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### Author: ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/api-instagram/37909/3 "2022-02-01T01:09:16Z")

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What kind of metrics do you want?

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### Author: ![Wander\_Ferreira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/wander_ferreira/32/26408_2.png) [@Wander\_Ferreira](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Wander_Ferreira)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/api-instagram/37909/4 "2022-02-03T12:55:22Z")

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The data would be the insights, for example:

- Total followers by age group and gender
- Total followers by country

Instagram even shows this data in the app, and they even have an API, but I don’t know if it would be possible to use their API as it needs to authenticate to get data.

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### Author: ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/api-instagram/37909/5 "2022-02-03T14:33:56Z")

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I did some search, it seems like their API endpoint for getting followers info was disabled in 2018 due to the Cambridge Analytica issue.

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32407851/instagram-api-how-can-i-retrieve-the-list-of-people-a-user-is-following-on-ins>

I’m not sure if they have replaced it with another endpoint, or at this point, it’s illegal to get that data from Instagram.

> [@Wander\_Ferreira](#):
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> - Total followers by age group and gender
> - Total followers by country

However, these seems to be included in their Insights API, with an Instagram Business account.

> **[Instagram Graph API – Part 2: Fetching data with the Insights API](https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2019/06/22/instagram-graph-api-part-2-fetching-data-with-the-insights-api/)**
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> In Part 1 of this min-series I introduced the Instagram Graph API, what is was, and how you could connect to it.
> In Part 2 we look at an API that belongs to the Instagram Graph API – the Insights API.  Specifically, we’ll:
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> 
> introduce the...
