Instagram user reels
Get an Instagram account's reels with view counts (play_count), likes and comments. Prefer this over instagram_user_posts for ANY question about video performance or covering a date range: it is the only Instagram feed that pages back reliably AND carries a true view count on every item. It sees ONLY reels — for photos and carousels use instagram_user_posts. If a date window you chose returns no items, retry once without date filters before drafting; preserve any source period the user requested.
For a date range pass since and until rather than a large item cap — plus tz, the user's timezone, so the days are cut on THEIR calendar. The walk pages back until it reaches that date, and the tool returns a totals block (posts, views, likes, comments, engagement_rate) computed over exactly that window. Quote those numbers; never add up the rows yourself. Before reporting a total, read these four fields — each one exists because ignoring it produced a wrong report:
partial: true— the walk stopped early, so this is a FLOOR, not a measurement. Say so, or re-run; never present it as the period's total.overlaps— names a sibling feed returning the SAME pieces. Report one feed or the other; adding both counts every piece twice.views_metric— which upstream numberviewscame from. Two feeds on one platform can report different values for the same piece, so only compare or combine totals whoseviews_metricmatches.measured_at— when it was read. Live counts move fast; state it whenever you report a total, and never explain a difference between two runs as a mistake before checking whether the pieces simply gained views between them.
COVERING MORE THAN ONE ACCOUNT OR FEED: never add these totals in your head. Each result carries a receipt — a TSV block with the same five columns on every platform. Paste the receipts into run_code and total them there: dedupe on (platform, id) so a piece returned by two feeds is counted once, keep an empty field as missing rather than 0, and only add views across receipts whose views_metric matches. Report the code's number, not a retyped one, and hand back the per-piece list so the total can be checked by hand.
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curl -X POST "https://example.com/social/instagram_user_reels" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "organization_id": "string", "input": { "username": "string" } }'{ "operation": "instagram_profile", "result": { "summary": "string", "username": "string", "user_id": "string", "totals": { "window": { "since": "string", "until": "string", "tz": "string" }, "posts": -9007199254740991, "views": 0, "likes": 0, "comments": 0, "engagement_rate": 0, "rows_without_views": -9007199254740991, "rows_without_likes": -9007199254740991, "rows_without_comments": -9007199254740991, "views_metric": "string", "measured_at": "string", "partial": true, "overlaps": "string", "oldest": "string", "newest": "string" }, "receipt": "string", "coverage": "string", "items": [ { "pk": "string", "id": "string", "code": "string", "media_type": 0, "product_type": "string", "taken_at": 0, "like_count": 0, "comment_count": 0, "play_count": 0, "view_count": 0, "permalink": "string", "caption_text": "string", "image_url": "string", "carousel_image_urls": [ "string" ] } ] }, "requests": 0, "credits_charged": 0}