# SiteCheck Shop & Social – Instagram Related Profiles

> SiteCheck Shop & Social – Instagram Related Profiles is a paid API for AI agents from api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns the list of related/suggested Instagram accounts associated with a public profile, including IDs, usernames, full names, verified and private flags, and profile pictures.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/api/social/instagram-related-profiles?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-shop-social-instagram-related-profiles-f4bde87e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QCdpmqC99Ft_tTqqtO0pZ

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 sitecheck-shop-social-instagram-related-profiles-f4bde87e
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the list of Instagram accounts that are suggested as related to @natgeo — I want to see their usernames, whether they're verified, and if any are private?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover the network of accounts Instagram algorithmically associates with a given public profile — useful for influencer mapping, competitive intelligence, brand network analysis, or social graph research. Prefer this over manual browsing or general Instagram APIs when you need structured, machine-readable account metadata for related profiles at low cost per call.

## Known failure modes

- 404 Not Found – the supplied username does not correspond to a known public Instagram account
- 503 Service Unavailable – Instagram is throttling requests; call is not charged
- Empty result – the account exists but Instagram returns no related profiles for it
- Invalid username format – malformed input may yield unexpected errors

## How this service works

Pay-per-call e-commerce, product, price and social media data tools for AI agents, from public sources. Payment: x402, USDC on Base, Solana, Arc, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad, World Chain, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo or Stellar, or RLUSD/XRP on the XRP Ledger. No signup, no API key; a failed call is not charged.

## Output

A list of up to ~50 related/suggested Instagram accounts as surfaced in Instagram's web profile JSON, each containing: account ID, username, full name, verified flag, private flag, and profile picture URL. No follower counts are included. If the account has no related list, the result is empty. Returns 404 for unknown users and 503 on throttling.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "username"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "username": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Instagram username (with or without @) or instagram.com/<user> URL"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-shop-social-instagram-related-profiles-f4bde87e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/llms.txt)