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Checking if the user is not a follower or not

  • May 26, 2024
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Kitchen Kravings

Manychat allows me to change my automation flow basis on this condition (Whether the user is a follower or not). Recently while speaking to a fellow Instagram business owner, I got to know there is no official Instagram API to check if the user is a follower of your channel or not and there is a high chance Manychat is scraping our IG account to check for follower status. With this question, I want to clearly ask if Manychat is scraping our account to check for follower status? If not, pls provide with Instagram official documentation through which this is made possible on Manychat. 

 

Nothing can be more harmful to me other than getting my IG blocked, hence this is imp for me to 

Best answer by Fabio Gaulke

Hi, folks!

 

This condition used to be kinda broken in the past, but now it’s working as expected.

You can now build flows like this, and it will check whether the user follows your profile:

 

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dvlana
  • Up-and-Comer
  • 6 replies
  • October 19, 2024

it seems that the function doesn’t return correct results as of this moment, is there any way determine if the person who writes is follower?


kas
  • Up-and-Comer
  • 3 replies
  • February 5, 2025

There is one in the condition section.

From what I see from bigger creators is that they send you a message “make sure you follow me” or “confirm you follow me”, but they don’t actually check it. I guess in many cases it works as people simply follow the instruction and hit that follow button. But then they still run the automation even if you’re not a follower 

 


Fabio Gaulke
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  • September 29, 2025

Hi, folks!

 

This condition used to be kinda broken in the past, but now it’s working as expected.

You can now build flows like this, and it will check whether the user follows your profile: