GhostPeek
See who they just followed on Instagram, instantly
7 followers
See who they just followed on Instagram, instantly
7 followers
GhostPeek lets you instantly see who someone recently followed on Instagram — anonymously and without logging in. It only works on public profiles but reveals what Instagram used to show: a live peek into someone’s latest activity.
Hi there,
I heard once that Instagram’s API does not allow access to another user’s recent follows even for developers.
How can you're service detect that then ?
@stuckrl Hey Joe — you're absolutely right. Instagram's API doesn't provide access to recent follows, so we had to build a workaround.
After testing a few approaches, we landed on a method that captures and logs public follow lists periodically — roughly once per minute — and then compares timestamps. If a new username appears in the latest snapshot that wasn't in the previous one, we can reasonably assume that's the most recent follow.
It took some trial and error, but this method gives us a close approximation of real-time follow activity without relying on any private API access.