title: Historical Followers Count in Instagram Graph Api
body: <p>I wonder how this website among others got followers_count history data so it shows gained and lost followers.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/O6sVU.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Followers Evolution #1</a>
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mg9PW.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Followers Evolution #2</a></p>
  
  <p>I searched in Instagram Graph Api documentation and I found that there is an "insights" api that can be used to get social interaction metrics for IG Users. But, among available metrics a metric called "followers_count" which is the "Total number of <strong>new followers</strong> each day within the specified range". so the api provides <strong>new followers</strong> count not the entire follower count over time. As I said in the beginning how is it possible to draw the followers evolution graph as many IG analytics websites do? am I messing something?</p>