Get Follower Info

These function returns all of the followers or users that a specific user is following

ig_get_followers(user_id, max_id = NULL, return_df = TRUE,
  paginate = TRUE, max_pages = 10, verbose = FALSE)

ig_get_following(user_id, max_id = NULL, return_df = TRUE,
  paginate = TRUE, max_pages = 10, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

user_id	numeric; the unique id to identify an Instagram user which can be found in the "pk" field on a user object
max_id	integer; the unique id identifying the oldest post that you would want to retrieve in this function call
return_df	logical; do you want to return the results as a tbl_df with one row per entity or as a list with one element per entity?
paginate	logical; do you want to paginate through results or just return the first page?
max_pages	integer; a limit to the number of pages to retrieve from paginated endpoints. Instagram feeds have the potential to paginate forever, so by default we stop after pulling 10 pages. If you would like more or less pages returned, then modify this argument.
verbose	logical; do you want informative messages?

Examples

bieber_user_id <- ig_get_user_id("justinbieber")
#> Error: Status: fail
#> Message: login_required

# By default, ig_get_followers will retrieve the top 10 pages of follower data. 
# This is because IG users like Justin Bieber have 100M+ followers, so it could 
# take a long time to pull. If you would really like to get all users, then set
# the max_pages argument to Inf.
bieber_followers <- ig_get_followers(bieber_user_id)
#> Error in check_user_id(user_id): object 'bieber_user_id' not found
bieber_following <- ig_get_following(bieber_user_id)
#> Error in check_user_id(user_id): object 'bieber_user_id' not found