topic Re: How to extract data from Instagram in Connectivity & Data Prep

How to extract data from Instagram

gaurav2017 — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 11:32:36 GMT

Hi friends,

I have been using Qlik web connector for Facebook, Twitter and Youtube data but can't find a connector for Instagram.

Is there a way to extract the data from Instagram in Qlik Sense using any other connector. If yes, Can someone please guide me.

Looking forward for positive replies.

Thanks and Best Regards

Re: How to extract data from Instagram

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:18:21 GMT

Yes, there is.

If you are using Amazon Redshift to store your data, you can try Instagram Business IQ connector by Openbridge for collecting account and media data, and connect to Qlik Sense: https://openbridge.com/product/openbridge-instagram-business-iq.

The connector is free and gets you access to the following data:

media metadata including account, media and user identification data and URLs
media insights for video, photo, carousel album and stories include impressions, likes, reach, saved media, video views
business account metadata including account ID, Facebook account ID biography, followers and follow counts, media count, name, profile picture URL, username and website
business account insights including impressions, reach, gender and age distribution, location distribution, audience country distribution, audience city, online followers, followers count, email contacts, phone call clicks, text message clicks, get directions clicks, website clicks and profile views

If you are not using Redshift, Amazon offers free trial. You can sign up and connect it to Qlik Sense.

Be aware, with recent legacy Instagram API changes, you need to transfer to Instagram Business Account in order to get access to performance data. You can read more about the change here: https://blog.openbridge.com/instagram-abruptly-shuts-down-its-legacy-api-ahead-of-schedule-29770a4b2e21.

Hope this helps!

Re: How to extract data from Instagram

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:22:26 GMT

Pls, check post Instagram and look for the answer/advice from stevedark‌ to use the Qlik REST connector for connecting with Instagram data, which I did myself, too.

Re: How to extract data from Instagram

Druidenio — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:42:01 GMT

I’ve run into the same snag before, and since there’s no native Instagram connector, I ended up pulling data through the Instagram Graph API with a small custom script and then loading it into Qlik Sense. It’s a bit of extra wiring, but it works fine once set up. On a side note, I’ve used how to see someone's likes on instagram to sanity-check some public activity, and it gave me cleaner context for my own reports.