Instagram Creator Marketplace API
Updated: Jun 11, 2026
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Instagram’s creator marketplace is where you can discover and evaluate Instagram creators for partnership ads. The API offers personalized creator recommendations and search using authenticated first-party data to help your brand find the right creators for your partnership ad campaigns. You can evaluate creators for partnership ads using authenticated, real-time first-party data.
Before you begin
Permissions
To use these APIs, permissions must be granted using Facebook Login. These permissions are required to access the creator marketplace API:
instagram_creator_marketplace_discoveryinstagram_basicpages_manage_metadatapages_show_listbusiness_management
Note: For the
instagram_creator_marketplace_discovery permission, your app must have advanced access, which requires app review. When you first get access to instagram_creator_marketplace_discovery permission, you will be auto-granted standard access. Standard access will give you access to test data for testing and implementation purposes.Eligibility
In the brand onboarding flow, Meta will check if your brand is eligible for Instagram’s creator marketplace. If your brand is eligible but has not onboarded to the creator marketplace, you will need to accept the Instagram Creator Marketplace Terms of Service.
Access Tokens
This API requires a Page access token for a Page that is connected to your brand’s Instagram business account and is either eligible to onboard or has onboarded to Instagram’s creator marketplace as a brand.
Rate Limits
The creator marketplace APIs enforce rate limits at both the Instagram account level and the application level.
- Account-level limits: Requests are capped at 1000 per user per hour.
- Application-level limits: The number of calls an app can make within a rolling one-hour window is calculated as:
Calls per hour = 1000 * Number of Effective Users. Number of Effective Users is determined by the app’s number of unique daily active users (DAUs). If your app experiences fluctuating usage, such as higher activity on weekends and lower activity during weekdays, the calculation may use weekly or monthly active users to better reflect typical usage patterns instead.
App Review
Instructions for Developers
Your app review should clearly demonstrate how your app authenticates users and accesses data from Instagram’s creator marketplace.
1. Authentication Process
- UI (user-facing) apps:
- Before you begin recording your demo for app review, ensure that you have included the
instagram_creator_marketplace_discoverypermission in your configuration. You can access this permission by using the existing Instagram Creator Marketplace template during setup. - Show the complete, end-to-end Facebook Login flow inside your app. The login flow should match the video in the Login Flow Experience section below as closely as possible.
- Show the user connecting their Instagram account via a linked Facebook Page.
- Clearly show where the user (brand) reviews and grants consent for creator search. Your app review video should clearly show the list of permissions and ensure that “Discover content creators on the Instagram Creator Marketplace platform” is visible.
- Example screencast: How to produce a screencast for app review
- Before you begin recording your demo for app review, ensure that you have included the
- Server-to-server (S2S, no UI) apps:
- Explain your backend authentication setup (system users, tokens, permissions).
- Clearly state that your app is server-to-server in your submission.
- Confirm in the screencast that the app operates as S2S.
- If direct testing isn’t possible, provide detailed use cases and evidence supporting the S2S workflow.
2. End-to-End Permission Usage
- Explain and demonstrate how you use the
instagram_creator_marketplace_discoverypermission to discover creators. Include the specific purpose for why the app needs this functionality. - In your recorded video, demonstrate how you perform a creator search on your app UI using the Instagram Creator Marketplace API.
- Show how your app retrieves and processes creator insights, such as creator bio, follower count, and account reach.
- Explain and demonstrate how you use the
Login Flow Experience

Discovery API
The Discovery API provides personalized creator recommendations to your authenticated brand by leveraging existing data from all over Instagram, thus allowing you to discover relevant creators personalized to your brand and ad campaigns.
Instagram’s creator marketplace prioritizes creators who will perform well in your brand’s partnership ads campaigns.
Example request
curl -G \ -d 'access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>' \ 'https://graph.facebook.com/v25.0/<IG_USER_ID>/creator_marketplace_creators'
API Parameters
- When a creator username is specified, other filter parameters (e.g.,
creator_countries) cannot be applied. - When
similar_to_creatorsis used, keyword search (query) cannot be used. querycan be combined with other filters (e.g.,creator_age_bucket).- If the searched username (
username) matches the username of an eligible professional account, that account will be returned regardless of its creator marketplace onboarding status.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
creator_countries | Filter creators based on their country. Input will be the country ISO code. For example: creator_countries=['US'] |
creator_min_followers | Minimum follower count for creators.
Values: 0, 10000, 25000, 50000, 75000, 100000, 250000, 1000000. |
creator_max_followers | Maximum follower count for creators.
Values: 10000, 25000, 50000, 75000, 100000, 250000, 1000000. |
creator_age_bucket | Filter creators based on their age range.
Values: 18_to_24, 25_to_34, 35_to_44, 45_to_54, 55_to_64, 65_and_above. |
creator_interests | Filter creators based on category list input.
Values: ANIMALS_AND_PETS, BOOKS_AND_LITERATURE, BUSINESS_FINANCE_AND_ECONOMICS, EDUCATION_AND_LEARNING, BEAUTY, FASHION, FITNESS_AND_WORKOUTS, FOOD_AND_DRINK, GAMES_PUZZLES_AND_PLAY, HISTORY_AND_PHILOSOPHY, HOLIDAYS_AND_CELEBRATIONS, HOME_AND_GARDEN, MUSIC_AND_AUDIO, PERFORMING_ARTS, SCIENCE_AND_TECH, SPORTS, TV_AND_MOVIES, TRAVEL_AND_LEISURE_ACTIVITIES, VEHICLES_AND_TRANSPORTATION, VISUAL_ARTS_ARCHITECTURE_AND_CRAFTS |
creator_gender | Filter creators based on their gender.
Values: male, female. |
creator_states | Filter creators based on their state location. Input will be the state ISO code list. Note that we only support US states at this time. creator_countries=['US'] must be defined. |
creator_min_engaged_accounts | Minimum engagement metric of the audience for a creator’s content.
Values: 0, 2000, 10000, 50000, 100000. |
creator_max_engaged_accounts | Maximum engagement metric of the audience for a creator’s content.
Values: 2000, 10000, 50000, 100000 |
major_audience_age_bucket | Filter creators based on their audience’s age group.
Values: 18_to_24, 25_to_34, 35_to_44, 45_to_54, 55_to_64, 65_and_above |
major_audience_gender | Filter creators based on their audience’s gender.
Values: male, female |
major_audience_countries | Filter creators based on the location of their audience. Input will be the country ISO code list. |
major_audience_states | Filter creators based on the state location of their audience. Input will be the state ISO code list. Note that we only support US states at this time. major_audience_countries=['US'] must be defined. |
query | A free-text search to find creators based on a list of keywords (e.g., username or content-related terms).
For example: to find travel-related accounts, use query=travel. |
similar_to_creators | A list of creators similar to the specified creator. Limited to only onboarded creators, input can be a list of usernames and the maximum username input is 5. |
recommendation_type | The recommendation type based on information including creative style, partnership experience, follower demographics and more for your brand. We support the following values:
|
username | The creator’s Instagram username |
custom_audience_id | ID of the custom audience (obtained from the creator_marketplace_brand_info endpoint) to filter creators whose follower base overlaps with the specified audience. |
reels_interaction_rate | The percentage of views that liked, commented, shared and saved this creator’s recent reels. This is calculated as the number of views that engaged with the reels divided by the total number of initial views. |
major_audience_device_type | Filter creators based on their audience’s primary device type. Results are filtered to only include creators whose majority audience uses the specified device type(s). Accepts an array of values.
Values: ios, android |
creator_latest_post_activity | Filter creators who recently created a public post or reel. Results are filtered to only include creators who have posted within the specified time window. Accepts a single value.
Values: last_7_days, last_30_days, last_90_days |
creator_follower_growth | Filter creators with top follower growth within the last 30 days, compared with similar creators. Results are filtered to only include creators whose follower growth ranks in the specified percentile. Accepts a single value.
Values: top_10_percent, top_30_percent, top_50_percent |
Response fields
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
username | The Instagram handle or username of the creator. |
is_account_verified | Indicates whether the creator’s Instagram account is verified. |
biography | The bio or description provided by the creator on their Instagram profile. |
country | The country in which the creator is based. |
gender | The gender of the creator (only available for onboarded creators). |
age_bucket | The age range or bucket to which the creator belongs, only available for onboarded creators. 18-24, 25-34. |
insights | Metric insights of a creator, such as account_engaged_count:30 |
onboarded_status | Whether a creator has been onboarded to the creator marketplace. |
id | Instagram ID |
email | Creator’s email, if available |
badges | The badges of the creator |
portfolio_url | Creator’s portfolio URL, if available |
profile_picture_url | The URL of the creator’s profile picture, if available. |
has_brand_partnership_experience | Whether the creator has branded content or partnership ads collaboration experience in the past year. For this field to return values, username has to be specified in the API call. |
past_brand_partnership_partners | The brands the creator has collaborated with on branded content or partnership ads in the past year. For this field to return values, username has to be specified in the API call. |
branded_content_media | Returns the 30 most recent branded content organic media of a particular creator. See insights section for supported fields. For this field to return values, username has to be specified in the API call. |
recent_media | Returns the top 30 recent media of a particular creator. See insights section for supported fields. For this field to return values, username has to be specified in the API call. |
past_partnership_ads_media | Returns media where this creator has partnered with advertisers to co-create ads. Only includes partnership ads that have been active within the past year. For this field to return values, username has to be specified in the API call.Note: Insights are not available for past_partnership_ads_media. |
Example request
curl -G \ -d 'creator_countries=["US"]' \ -d 'fields=id,username,country,gender' \ -d 'access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>' \ 'https://graph.facebook.com/v25.0/<IG_USER_ID>/creator_marketplace_creators'
Example response
{ "data": [ { "id": "178414869381437360", "username": "xxx", "country": "BR", "gender": "female" }, { "id": "178414965628223823", "username": "xxx", "country": "IN", "gender": "male" } ] }
Error codes
| Error Code | Description |
|---|---|
10 Permission Denied
App Missing Permission
| The app lacks the required instagram_creator_marketplace_discovery permission. |
10 Permission Denied | Brand Eligibility
The brand is not eligible to onboard to the creator marketplace, so the API call cannot be made.
|
100 Invalid Parameter Input | General message for invalid API parameter inputs (e.g., account follower count minimum bound exceeds the upper bound, category exceeds the limit of 5). |
Creator Insights API
The Creator Insights API allows you to access performance metrics for individual creators, including follower counts, audience engagement, and reach data. Use the
username parameter to query insights for a specific creator.Creator Insights Metrics
The following metrics are available when querying creator insights. Each metric supports specific time periods, ranges, and granularity breakdowns.
| Metric | Supported Periods | Supported Time Range | Supported Granularity |
|---|---|---|---|
total_followers | Overall | Lifetime | NA |
creator_engaged_accounts | Day, Overall | this_week, last_14_days, this_month | follow_type, gender, age, top_countries, top_cities |
creator_reach | Day, Overall | this_week, last_14_days, this_month | follow_type, media_type |
reels_interaction_rate | Overall | last_90_days | NA |
reels_hook_rate | Overall | last_90_days | NA |
Example request
curl -G \ -d 'username=<CREATOR_USERNAME>' \ -d 'fields=insights.metrics(creator_reach).breakdown(follow_type)' \ -d 'access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>' \ 'https://graph.facebook.com/v25.0/<IG_USER_ID>/creator_marketplace_creators'
Media Insights Metrics
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
id | Media id of the content Example: 17841463918802342 |
product_type | The media product type Example: Reels |
media_type | The media type Example: Image |
permalink | The permalink of the media Example: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_Tlbb-sGMi/ |
thumbnail_url | The thumbnail URL of the media Example: https://scontent-sjc3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t...6A251557 |
creation_time | The time the media was created Example: 2024-08-30T19:36:26+0000 |
caption | The caption of the media Example: Test Caption |
tagged_brand | The brand that the organic media has been paid to partner with. If the media is not a branded content with partnership, the field will not be returned. Example: instagram |
likes | Total number of likes the media receives. Example: 1000 |
comments | Total number of comments the media receives. Example: 500 |
views | Total number of views on the media (only available for video media). Example: 30000 |
shares | Total number of shares the media gets. Example: 800 |
Example request
curl -G \ -d 'username=<CREATOR_USERNAME>' \ -d 'fields=branded_content_media{media_type,insights.metrics(views)},recent_media{media_type,insights.metrics(views)}' \ -d 'access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>' \ 'https://graph.facebook.com/v25.0/<IG_USER_ID>/creator_marketplace_creators'
Error codes
| Error Code | Description |
|---|---|
100 Invalid Parameter Input | General message for invalid API parameter inputs (e.g., the input period is not supported by the provided metrics). |
Creator Marketplace Brand Information API
The Creator Marketplace Brand Information API allows brands and agencies to retrieve custom audiences that are eligible for creator discovery filtering. This is the first step in the Custom Audience-based discovery workflow — call this endpoint to list available audiences, then pass the selected
custom_audience_id to the discovery API to filter creators.Permissions
To use this API, permissions must be granted using Facebook Login. These permissions are required to access the creator marketplace brand information API:
instagram_creator_marketplace_discoveryinstagram_basicads_management
Example request
curl -G \ -d 'access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>' \ 'https://graph.facebook.com/v25.0/<IG_USER_ID>/creator_marketplace_brand_info'
API Parameters
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
acting_business_id | The agency Business ID when accessing on behalf of a client. Required for agencies to see custom audiences from ad accounts shared via Business Suite. Without this parameter, only audiences from the IG user’s directly owned ad accounts are returned. |
Response fields
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
custom_audiences_access_status | Indicates whether the brand has access to custom audiences for creator filtering. |
custom_audiences | List of custom audiences available for creator filtering. |
id | The unique ID of the custom audience. Pass this value as custom_audience_id to the creator_marketplace_creators endpoint. |
name | The display name of the custom audience. |
Example request
curl -G \ -d 'acting_business_id=123456' \ -d 'access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>' \ 'https://graph.facebook.com/v25.0/<IG_USER_ID>/creator_marketplace_brand_info'
Example response
{ "custom_audiences_access_status": "HAS_ACCESS", "custom_audiences": [ { "id": "12354465435359", "name": "High Value Customers Q1" }, { "id": "5645451351544564", "name": "Website Visitors 30d" } ] }
Error codes
| Error Code | Description |
|---|---|
10 Authorization Error | The app lacks the required ads_management permission against the targeted ad account. |
100 Invalid Parameter Input | The acting_business_id does not have access to the specified IG user’s ad accounts. |
Learn More
- App Review process
- Facebook Login