Check whether an Instagram user follows the account

Resolves the follow relationship between an Instagram user and the connected account, plus their public profile counters.

userId is the Instagram-scoped id (IGSID) Meta gives you on a webhook: sender.id on message.received, comment.author.id on comment.received.

Meta only answers for people who have MESSAGED the account. Commenting grants no consent, so a commenter who has never DMed you is unresolvable - that is a platform rule, not a limitation of this endpoint. When it cannot be resolved the response is still 200 with isFollower: null and an unavailableReason, because "unknown" is a normal state to branch on:

• consent_required - the user has never messaged this account.
• dm_access_disabled - the account owner turned off Instagram Direct API access.
• not_messageable - the id is not a messaging-scoped id.
• error - a transient Graph API failure.

To gate a comment automation on this, use the automation's audience rules instead of calling this per comment - they run the same lookup only on comments that actually match a keyword, and can ask the commenter to confirm with one tap.

Answers are cached briefly per (account, user). Pass refresh=true right after asking someone to follow, so a follow from a moment ago is visible.

import Zernio from '@zernio/node';const zernio = new Zernio({ apiKey: process.env.ZERNIO_API_KEY });const { data } = await zernio.accounts.getInstagramFollowStatus({  path: {    accountId: 'account_abc123',    userId: 'user_abc123',  },});console.log(data);

{
  "userId": "1312733120229708",
  "accountId": "6977a34e77637c5c857c816c",
  "isFollower": true,
  "isFollowedByAccount": false,
  "followerCount": 25,
  "isVerified": false,
  "username": "to.bias8262",
  "name": "Tobi Ma",
  "unavailableReason": null
}

{
  "error": "string",
  "type": "invalid_request_error",
  "code": "string",
  "param": "string",
  "platform": "string",
  "platformError": {},
  "details": {}
}

{
  "error": "Unauthorized"
}

{
  "error": "Not found"
}