How to get historical data from Instagram APIs

Question

I am creating a web analytics app for Instagram. I carefully read all the endpoints of the Instagram API, and I cannot find a way to get historical data (i.e. Followers over time). All I need would be like a date tied to each successor object.

However, there are Instagram analytics sites that offer this, for example, minter.io.

https://minter.io/faq#faq-posting-1

From the link above: "Minter.io provides complete historical data on Instagram accounts and hashtags, with the exception of: Accounts - list of lost Hashtags subscribers - coverage and exposure In these reports, data will be available only from the moment the report is created."

An example of this historical data, from the minter.io report in my account:

At this point, I think either:

• Minter has a special arrangement with Instagram to obtain additional data that is not otherwise provided through the API.
• Something is missing for me ..

I understand how this could be done by comparing user data with previous reports ( as this question SO asked ), but it is clear that Minter does it differently, because the report was created from the very first time I created a trial account record with them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Now, the Facebook API has released the Instagram Insights API, which returns Instagram account details for Instagram Business.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/user#insights

Above is for the understanding of users who has a tracking number. There is a lot of media information that is now available in the graphical API.

Information on how to use this API is recorded in the response at: How to access any user’s Instagram channel with the new Graph API?