Instagram API for public profile data

One call. Real response.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $HH_KEY" \
  "https://honesthook.com/api/v1/instagram/profile?handle=nasa"

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "instagram",
  "endpoint": "instagram/profile",
  "data": {
    "author": {
      "id": "17841401474538262",
      "handle": "nasa",
      "name": "NASA",
      "followers": 104357600,
      "following": 91,
      "posts_count": 4923,
      "verified": true,
      "is_private": false
    }
  },
  "error": null,
  "cached": true
}

Recorded response, captured 15 Sep 2026. A live call returns the value at the moment you ask. The same envelope comes back from every other platform — only platform and endpoint change.

What this endpoint does not return.

• No posts. The public profile page does not carry them — measured, not assumed.
• No email, phone or anything behind a login. We read what the page shows a logged-out visitor.
• No engagement rate. It needs reach, and Instagram does not publish reach.

A field we cannot read comes back null, never 0. A zero would be a claim about the account; null is a fact about our collection.

The part you are handing over.

Instagram asks for a login on its own API path, so the profile is read from the public page instead. That path changes without notice, and keeping up with it is the part you are handing over.