How to get all followers of a user with a lot of followers?

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Question

I would like to get all the followers of a user, but as there are many, I think the only alternative would be to split requests between multiple accounts.

For example, one account would have followers from 0 to 10,000, while another would have followers between 10,000 and 20,000. But I couldn’t find any way to do this in the documentation, is it possible?

Code

async function getFollowers(
  username: string,
  ig: IgApiClient,
  { delay, limit, savePath }: GetFollowersOptions
): Promise<AccountFollowersFeedResponseUsersItem[]> {

  const id = await ig.user.getIdByUsername(username);
  const followersFeed = await ig.feed.accountFollowers(id);

  let followers: AccountFollowersFeedResponseUsersItem[] = [];
  let reqId = 0;
  do {
    reqId += 1;
    const items = await followersFeed.items();
    followers = [...followers, ...items];

    if (limit && limit !== -1) {
      if (followers.length >= limit) {
        break;
      }
    }

    await waitInSeconds(delay);
  } while (followersFeed.isMoreAvailable());
return followers
}

[iitsuraj]

You can use recursion Like this @khanakhun

  const id = await ig.user.getIdByUsername(username);
  const followersFeed = await ig.feed.accountFollowers(id);
  const followers = [];
  const e = async () => {
    let items = await followersFeed.items();
    // Save to database or append in json file
    followers.push(items);
    const isMore = await followersFeed.isMoreAvailable();
      if (isMore) {
        await delay(20 * 1000)  // delay 20 sec anti ban mode
        e();
      } else {
        console.log("=====> All Followers Extracted");
      }
  };
  await e()
};

[iitsuraj]

Duplicate #988