Threads Insights API
Updated: Jan 30, 2026
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The Threads Insights API allows you to read the insights from users’ own Threads.
Permissions
The Threads Insights API requires an appropriate access token and permissions based on the node you are targeting. While you are testing, you can easily generate tokens and grant your app permissions by using the Graph API Explorer.
threads_basic— Required for making any calls to all Threads API endpoints.threads_manage_insights— Required for makingGETcalls to insights endpoints.
Limitations
- The user insights
sinceanduntilparameters do not work for dates before April 13, 2024 (Unix timestamp1712991600).
Media Insights
To retrieve the available insights metrics, send a
GET request to the /{threads-media-id}/insights endpoint with the metric parameter containing a comma-separated list of metrics to be returned.Note:
- Returned metrics do not capture nested replies’ metrics.
- An empty array will be returned for
REPOST_FACADEposts because they are posts made by other users.
Available Metrics
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
views | The number of times your post was played or displayed. Note: This metric is in development. |
likes | The number of likes on the post. |
replies | The number of replies on the post. Note: When the requested media is a root post, this number includes total replies. If the media is itself a reply, this number includes only direct replies. |
reposts | The number of times the post was reposted. |
quotes | The number of times the post was quoted. |
shares | The number of shares of your Threads posts. Note: This metric is in development. |
Example Request
curl -s -X GET \
-F "metric=likes,replies" \
-F "access_token=<THREADS_ACCESS_TOKEN>"
"https://graph.threads.com/v1.0/<THREADS_MEDIA_ID>/insights"
Example Response
{
"data": [
{
"name": "likes",
"period": "lifetime",
"values": [
{
"value": 100
}
],
"title": "Likes",
"description": "The number of likes on your post.",
"id": "<media_id>/insights/likes/lifetime"
},
{
"name": "replies",
"period": "lifetime",
"values": [
{
"value": 10
}
],
"title": "Replies",
"description": "The number of replies on your post.",
"id": "<media_id>/insights/replies/lifetime"
}
]
}
User Insights
To retrieve the available user insights metrics, send a
GET request to the /{threads-user-id}/threads_insights endpoint with the metric parameter, and optionally, the since and until parameters.User insights are not guaranteed to work before June 1, 2024.
Parameters
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
since | Optional. Used in conjunction with the until parameter to define a range. If you omit since and until, it defaults to a 2-day range: yesterday through today.Note: The earliest Unix timestamp that can be used is 1712991600, any timestamp before that will be rejected.Format: Unix Timestamp |
until | Optional. Used in conjunction with the since parameter to define a range. If you omit since and until, it defaults to a 2-day range: yesterday through today.Note: The earliest Unix timestamp that can be used is 1712991600, any timestamp before that will be rejected.Format: Unix Timestamp |
metric | Required. A comma-separated list of the metrics to be returned. Must be at least one of the user metrics values. |
User Metrics
| Name | Response Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
views | Time Series | The number of times your profile was viewed. |
likes | Total Value | The number of likes on your posts. |
replies | Total Value | The number of replies on your posts. Note: This number includes only top-level replies. |
reposts | Total Value | The number of times your posts were reposted. |
quotes | Total Value | The number of times your posts were quoted. |
clicks | Link Total Values | The number of times people clicked on URLs you shared. |
followers_count | Total Value | Your total number of followers on Threads. Note:
|
follower_demographics | Total Value | The demographic characteristics of followers, including countries, cities, and gender distribution. Note:
|
Example Request
curl -s -X GET \
-F "metric=views" \
-F "access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
"https://graph.threads.com/v1.0/<THREADS_USER_ID>/threads_insights"
Example Time Series Metric Response
{
"data": [
{
"name": "views",
"period": "day",
"values": [
{
"value": 10,
"end_time": "2024-07-12T08:00:00+0000"
},
{
"value": 20,
"end_time": "2024-07-15T08:00:00+0000"
},
{
"value": 30,
"end_time": "2024-07-16T08:00:00+0000"
}
],
"title": "views",
"description": "The number of times your profile was viewed.",
"id": "37602215421583/insights/views/day"
}
]
}
Example Total Value Metric Response
{
"data": [
{
"name": "views",
"period": "day",
"total_value" : {
"value": 1
}
"title": "views",
"description": "The number of times your profile was viewed.",
"id": "37602215421583/insights/views/day"
}
]
}
Example Link Total Value Response
{
"data": [
{
"name": "clicks",
"period": "day",
"link_total_values": [
{
"value": 11,
"link_url": "https://ai.meta.com/blog/"
}
],
"title": "clicks",
"description": "The number of times users clicked on a link.",
"id": "37602215421583/insights/clicks/day"
}
]
}