How to fix incorrect follower count in daily trigger

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I’m facing an issue where the daily trigger shows a follower count of 0 for the last 1-2 days. However, when I fetch data for a week, it gives correct data for 5 days, but the last 2 days still show 0. Any ideas on how to fix this?

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Hi Aarti, is it possible to provide the blueprint to troubleshoot it?

Also, most clients want the follower performance metric on a monthly basis. Any reason why you want to extract it on a daily basis?

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We have internal reports that require a daily update of follower counts.
here’s the scenario

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Thanks for the details, Aarti.

I have asked for a blueprint to check if there is a problem with using variables and how the data is flowing.

Without the blueprint, I can only see one problem that could be the cause: Using a deprecated User Insights module. Deprecated modules are often unreliable.

I can help you fix the problem or come up with a new solution if the blueprint is provided.

If you can not provide a blueprint, I am happy to get on a screensharing call to debug together. I don’t want any money. I am just trying to gain more experience with Make.com.

Please let me know what you think.

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Yes, Can we get on call today?

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Hi Aarti, sorry for the delayed reply. Are you available tomorrow by any chance?

Please email me your availability at nareshdevineniofficial@gmail.com.

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Hi @Naresh_Devineni thanks a lot for stepping in so readily to lend a hand to the community :pray:

If you do end up jumping on a call to chat about this, could you please circle back to this thread and share your findings with the rest of the users? You see, our community thrives on sharing knowledge publicly, ensuring that it’s accessible for everyone’s benefit.

Thanks a lot :raised_hands:

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Hi @Michaela, Sure, I will do that :slight_smile:

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The Goal:
Get the total number of new followers for every passed day (yesterday) by running the scenario every day at 7:00 am in the morning (today). Can not use external APIs like RapidAPI or Apify. We must use native Instagram module from Make.com.

The Problem:
The problem is indeed with the usage of deprecated module of Instagram. It was not able pull valid data from Instagram.

But the scenario was dependent on the deprecated module because it provides the total number of new followers count for a particular day instead of “all time” total follower count of the profile since it was created.

The scenario couldn’t use the new Instagram module because it only provides total follower count of the profile. It doesn’t provide yesterday-only insights.

The solution:

  1. Replace the deprecated module with the new Instagram module to trigger it on daily basis as usual. This will get us the total follower count till yesterday.
  2. Imagine the updated scenario already ran “day before yesterday” and the spreadsheet contains the total follower count till the “day before yesterday”.
  3. To extract total number of new followers for yesterday-only, we just need to substract total follower count “till day before yesterday” from substract total follower count “till yesterday”.
  4. This will give us total number of new followers for yesterday.

Formula: total follower count till yesterday - total follower count till day-before-yesterday.

For example: 1910 - 1900 = 10. The new follower count just for yesterday is 10.

That’s all.

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