> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.creatoraudit.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Track accounts

> Add Instagram and TikTok accounts and read their metrics in the dashboard

An **account** is a tracked Instagram or TikTok profile. Add one and CreatorAudit starts collecting its post-level metrics and trends automatically. Open the **Accounts** page from the sidebar to add, search, and inspect the accounts your organization tracks.

## Add an account

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the add-account modal">
    On the **Accounts** page, click **Add account**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Enter a username">
    Type the Instagram or TikTok username you want to track.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Optionally assign a creator">
    Pick an existing [creator](/dashboard/creators) or create one to group this account
    with others. You can skip this and assign it later.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Confirm">
    Save the account. It appears in the table right away.
  </Step>
</Steps>

### The first refresh

A newly added account shows a **Scraping…** state until its first refresh completes. Once the first pull lands, its metrics and videos populate and the state clears. You don't need to do anything while it runs.

## The accounts table

The Accounts table is your working view of every tracked profile.

* **Search** by username.
* **Filter** by platform — Instagram or TikTok.
* **Sort** any sortable column.
* **Add or remove columns** with the column picker; your choice is remembered.
* **Paginate** with 50–200 rows per page.
* **Bulk delete** by selecting rows and removing them together.
* **Click a row** to open that account's detail page.

A **time-range selector** (**7d / 30d / 90d / custom**) drives the windowed metric columns, so the numbers always reflect the period you choose.

### Available columns

Columns include followers, total views, average views per video, posting activity, engagement rate, likes, comments, shares, saves, first tracked, last refresh, and any per-account scraping-limit overrides. See [Read analytics](/dashboard/analytics) for what each metric means.

## Account detail

Click a row to open the account detail page. It includes:

* A header with the avatar, username, platform, verified badge, and headline followers, views, and engagement.
* A **7d / 30d / 90d** selector and a time-series chart.
* A stats grid of the account's metrics.
* A sub-table of that account's videos.
* An editable **scraping-limits** panel.

### Per-account scraping limits

The scraping-limits panel lets you override how much CreatorAudit pulls for this account — the maximum posts per account and the lookback days. When you don't set an override, the account inherits your [organization defaults](/dashboard/usage). Overrides are useful when one account needs deeper or shallower history than the rest.

<Tip>
  Group related accounts under a [creator](/dashboard/creators) so their metrics roll up
  into one view — and so pausing the creator pauses every account at once.
</Tip>