# fetcher.sh Instagram User Followings

> fetcher.sh Instagram User Followings is a paid API for AI agents from fetcher.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves the list of accounts that a given Instagram user is following

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fetcher.sh/api/instagram/user/%7Bid%7D/followings
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-instagram-user-followings-6098b889
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rLVoUGDCgMhDqUJudOrlp

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability fetcher-sh-instagram-user-followings-6098b889
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the list of accounts that Instagram user with ID 123456789 is following? I want to see who they follow.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need programmatic access to an Instagram user's following list without setting up OAuth, managing Instagram API credentials, or maintaining a developer account. Ideal for AI agents that need one-off or pay-per-call social data extraction billed in USDC on Base, especially for influencer research, competitive intelligence, or social graph mapping at low cost ($0.004 per call).

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent Instagram user ID returns an error or empty result
- Private/restricted accounts may return limited or no followings data
- Rate limiting or Instagram anti-scraping measures may cause transient failures
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) returns HTTP 402
- Malformed user ID path parameter returns a 400-level error

## How this service works

fetcher.sh is an x402 web-data and scraping API: 111 endpoints for Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, Google, App Store, and Yelp — paid per call in USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad or Solana, or with prepaid credits. Built for AI agents: no accounts, no OAuth, no subscriptions.

## Output

Returns a list of Instagram accounts that the specified user is following, including profile data such as usernames, display names, profile picture URLs, and follower counts for each followed account.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-instagram-user-followings-6098b889/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from fetcher.sh](https://www.zero.xyz/host/fetcher.sh/llms.txt)