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I would like to know how I can retrieve the list of people a user is following on Instagram. This is given that this particular user is someone that I follow. So I have access to his/her photos and his followers on the Instagram app.
How can I use the Instagram API to do this? Is this legal to do?
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You just go to the list of someone's followers/following and it will appear at the top of the page — you can't miss it. Then just type in the name of the person you're looking for, and it'll show up if they're in the list.
With Instagram's current app update, there's no way for you to know who someone recently followed as the list's categorized based on who that person knows the most. But, you can use third-party sites like Snoopreport and IG Export to keep track of who an Instagram user follows.
Select or input the IG user you want to export, choose the export type then click 'GO'. 3. Check 'Profile' if you want to extract profiles, be aware that the extraction of profiles will cost much time.
The only way to see someone's recent followers is by using a monitoring third-party app. These apps keep track of someone's activity on Instagram, and most of them are apps that users must pay for.
Shiva's answer doesn't apply anymore. The API call "/users/{user-id}/follows" is not supported by Instagram for some time (it was disabled in 2016).
For a while you were able to get only your own followers/followings with "/users/self/follows" endpoint, but Instagram disabled that feature in April 2018 (with the Cambridge Analytica issue). You can read about it here.
As far as I know (at this moment) there isn't a service available (official or unofficial) where you can get the followers/followings of a user (even your own).
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