Instagram Following List (by Username or User ID)

omnial/instagram-fetch-user-following

Given an Instagram username or numeric user id, returns one page of the accounts that user follows: each followed account's id, username, display name, verification and privacy status, and a handful of platform flags, plus a pagination token to fetch the next page.

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Price

Up to $0.0041 per call; you pay what the call used

You pay the price shown. If a call turns out to cost more than its quote, you pay the actual price, capped at twice the quote. No monthly minimum. Top-ups start at $5.00.

Data source

Instagram

Data from Instagram.

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// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "omnial/instagram-fetch-user-following" })

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omnial_learn({ tool: "omnial/instagram-fetch-user-following" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "omnial/instagram-fetch-user-following", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "omnial/instagram-fetch-user-following", input: { /* ... */ } })

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Pricing

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Charge	Price
Per call	$0.0041

Updated: Nov 6, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema

input_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "anyOf": [
    {
      "required": [
        "username"
      ]
    },
    {
      "required": [
        "user_id"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "properties": {
    "user_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "18527"
      ],
      "description": "User ID"
    },
    "username": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "instagram"
      ],
      "description": "Username"
    },
    "pagination_token": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pagination token"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

output_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "data": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "count": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Number of accounts in this page's `items` array (50 on the one real page observed)."
        },
        "items": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "id": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "The followed account's numeric Instagram user id, as a string."
              },
              "username": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "The followed account's public handle."
              },
              "full_name": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "The followed account's own public display name."
              },
              "is_private": {
                "type": "boolean"
              },
              "is_favorite": {
                "type": "boolean",
                "description": "Whether the queried account has favorited this followed account inside Instagram's own client -- a setting on the queried account, not the followed one."
              },
              "is_verified": {
                "type": "boolean"
              },
              "account_badges": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {},
                "description": "Usually empty; item shape not documented."
              },
              "profile_pic_url": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "The followed account's avatar image URL. Value withheld (stripped to `null`) in this tool's output -- only whether an avatar is set is observable (`has_anonymous_profile_picture`), not the image itself."
              },
              "latest_reel_media": {
                "type": "number",
                "description": "A Unix-seconds-shaped timestamp of the account's latest Reels activity, or 0 when none."
              },
              "has_anonymous_profile_picture": {
                "type": "boolean",
                "description": "True when the account has not set a custom avatar."
              },
              "third_party_downloads_enabled": {
                "type": "number",
                "description": "Typically 1 or 2; a per-account platform content setting."
              }
            },
            "additionalProperties": true
          }
        },
        "total": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Total number of accounts the queried user follows."
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "pagination_token": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Opaque token; pass it as this tool's own `pagination_token` input to fetch the next page. An already-exhausted or invalid token returns an empty result outside this schema's evidenced shape -- see usage.md."
    }
  },
  "description": "One page of the queried account's following list.",
  "additionalProperties": true
}