How to fetch all followings of a user?

[emreond]

Hello,

I know I asked much but I hope this will be my last :). I am trying to fetch all followings of a user (not the logged one) but It only returns 600. The user I want to fetch followings has 950 following. I am using Friendship.following endpoint for that. Am I doing something wrong?

Endpoint.Friendship.following(identifier)
            .unlocking(with: secret)
            .task(maxLength: .max, by: .default, onComplete: { _ in

[sbertix]

Hey @emreond,

It's either because Instagram rate limited your account (as you're making too many requests), or simply because you're expecting a different number (based on the counter you can see) when 600 it's actually the correct amount.
Actual counters are not immediately updated every time an account is deactivated or suspended, and of course followers/following will not display users who blocked you, etc. This means that for an account with a counter of ~700 followers, you can expect ~600 "real" ones.

If that's not the case, and for instance you're trying to paginate some A-list celebrity account, than rate limiting is at place: the Private API are used for displaying content driven by user interaction. As it is unlikely for a user to scroll even just 10 pages of a followers list, and it's extremely valuable data, followers/following endpoints are among the most limited ones.

[sbertix]

Unfortunately it's not. It's simply the max_id for the starting page.
Meaning you can fetch one page, then get the pagination offset and use that as the argument of the method, and start from the second one instead of from scratch.

[emreond]

Aaa of course. By the way, rank is also didn't solve my problem. I tried to fetch all followings with below code (because It is not date sorted, I needed to fetch all followings) but when I call this method second time It doesn't return same response and this is because on first call It doesn't return all followings but just a part of them.

P.S I can wait more than default request gap If It will solve my problem to fetch all followings or If there is some way to detect couldn't fetched followings, I can retry that page only.

Endpoint.Friendship.following(identifier, matching: nil, startingAt: nil, rank: "followingfetchforuser1") .unlocking(with: secret) .task(maxLength: .max, by: .default, onComplete: { _ in

[sbertix]

Do you mean that if you write this code you get two different sortings?

Endpoint.Friendship.following(identifier, rank: "followingfetchforuser1")
   […]
// And then again with the same exact rank token and starting from the same page…
Endpoint.Friendship.following(identifier, rank: "followingfetchforuser1")
   […]
// … you get two different sortings?

That should not happen

[emreond]

Yes even with one page It returns different response. Let me try to give more detail example;

A user has 802 followings (returned from counter.following and seen on Instagram profile page) and when I fetch only one page of followings (It doesn't matter how many pages I fetch for the diff occur) with below code, It returns 100 value. Lets say in this 100 value, there is a user called "Ronaldo", when I call this function again new 100 value may or may not have "Ronaldo" and have "Emre" for example which is not in the first returned 100 value.

 Endpoint.Friendship.following(identifier, matching: nil, startingAt: nil, rank: "followingfetchforuser1")
            .unlocking(with: secret)
            .task(maxLength: 1, by: .default, onComplete: { _ in

P.S: When I try to fetch all followings with .max page value, It returns 618 value which is less than 802. I tried to fetch followings of accounts with 4, 750 and 802 following and I could only fetch all followings with 4 following account. In addition, I tried this process with two different account (To check If my own account is blocked or something for fetching).

Swiftagram Version: 4.2.10

[emreond]

I will jump from the bridge. It was .following not .followed.