Question

I’m trying to work with the instagram api, and I’m not seeming to understand one of their request call from the relationship endpoint, so here goes,

GET /users/{user-id}/relationship

“Get information about the current user’s relationship (follow/following/etc) to another user.”

this information comes from this page http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/relationships/

this is what it returns:

{
    "meta": {
        "code": 200
    }, 
    "data": {
        "outgoing_status": "none", 
        "incoming_status": "requested_by"
    }
}

what i don’t understand is if the current user is lets say id 3
and the target user 61

and id 3 does follow id 61

and id 61 deosnt follow 3

what would the instagram api return!! thanks for your help

Answer 1

From the very top of the documentation page you linked to:

• outgoing_status: Your relationship to the user. Can be “follows“, “requested“, “none“.
• incoming_status: A user’s relationship to you. Can be “followed_by“, “requested_by“, “blocked_by_you“, “none“.

So for your scenario it would be:

"data": {
  "outgoing_status": "follows", 
  "incoming_status": "none"
}