title: Instagram Graph API Get Follower Count
body: <p>I'm currently playing inside the Graph API Explorer to retrieve some data from the Instagram API.  My app is set up in Facebook Developer. All I want is to retrieve <strong>followers_count</strong> from a given username.</p>
  <p>Inside the Graph API Explorer, I have connected my App, have an access token, and set up permissions per the Instagram API Reference page (<a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/ig-user/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/ig-user/</a>).</p>
  <p>When I run my query inside the tool I'm getting an error that says I'm still missing permissions:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>&quot;message&quot;: &quot;(#100) Missing permissions&quot;,
  &quot;type&quot;: &quot;OAuthException&quot;,
  &quot;code&quot;: 100,</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I currently have set some extra permissions just to see if perhaps their documentation isn't up-to-date but still no luck:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>read_insights</li>
  <li>pages_show_list</li>
  <li>business_management</li>
  <li>instagram_basic</li>
  <li>instagram_manage_insights</li>
  <li>pages_read_engagement</li>
  </ul>