If you just want follower counts or verified status for a public Instagram account, the official Instagram API is a lot of ceremony for a single number. You need a Facebook developer app, an app review, a business or creator account, and access tokens that expire and need refreshing. And even then, the Graph API is designed around accounts you own or manage, not arbitrary public profiles.
How Metrika works
Metrika takes the opposite approach. It is a single REST API for public social media datapoints: you send an account identifier, you get JSON back with the metrics we have for it. No OAuth dance, no app review, no token refresh jobs. One bearer token, one endpoint, one consistent response shape.
One API for every platform
Instagram is one of the platforms Metrika supports out of the box, alongside X, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Threads. That means the request you write for Instagram is the same request you write for every other platform, which matters the moment your project needs more than one network.
What Metrika is not
The trade-off is scope. Metrika is not a replacement for the Graph API if you need to publish content, read comments, or manage your own account. It is built for the read-only analytics case: follower counts, following counts, and verified status for public accounts, delivered as clean JSON you can drop into a dashboard, a landing page, or a spreadsheet.
Getting started
The free tier includes up to 500 requests per month with no credit card required. Create an account, generate an API key from your dashboard, and you can be pulling Instagram datapoints in a couple of minutes. See pricing for what the free tier includes.
Get started with Metrika
Create a free account and start pulling social media datapoints in minutes. The free tier includes 500 requests per month, no credit card required.