Instagram API Reels total_interactions: how it is calculated

Instagram's insights reference says total_interactions for a Reel is likes, saves, comments and shares, minus unlikes, unsaves and deleted comments. The page marks total_interactions, views and reels_skip_rate as in development, so their methods may change.

From the IG Media insights reference, read 2026-10-02.

The Reels metrics on the page

Definitions as the page words them.

What the changelog adds

The April 22, 2026 changelog entry lists reposts_count, saved_count and shares_count, plus aggregated total_like_count, total_comments_count and total_views_count. The insights page says the total_likes, total_comments and total_views style metrics include promoted content and are for Facebook Login only. Field names differ between the two pages, so test a real call before you hard-code a column.

A reporting habit that survives changes

Three habits.

• Store the metric name and the date you pulled it. A definition marked in development can move.
• Do not add total_interactions and its parts together. It already contains them.
• Report views and total_interactions side by side, not one as a stand-in for the other.

Where Sume fits

Sume's docs do not list an Instagram insights reader, so pull these numbers from Instagram itself. Where Sume helps is the file side: if you make several cuts of one Reel with video trim, record the job id and your Idempotency-Key next to each published media id. Later you can tie a cut to its numbers.