# Instagram Location Scraper - Posts & Place Details (`aolmo/instagram-location`) Actor

Public Instagram location pages by id or URL without login: place name, category, address, coordinates, phone and total posts, plus about 15 featured posts with author, caption, date, likes, comments, plays and media. New posts flagged on scheduled runs. $0.002 per location.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aolmo/instagram-location.md
- **Developed by:** [Antonio del Olmo Tena](https://apify.com/aolmo) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 location scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

Scrape public Instagram location pages by id or URL without logging in, without API keys and without cookies. Paste location ids or URLs and get the place details (name, category, address, coordinates, phone, total number of posts) and one row per featured post (about 15 per location) with author, caption, hashtags, date, likes, comments, plays and media. Schedule it and new posts are flagged: local marketing, venue and event monitoring, tourism research and influencer discovery by place at $0.002 per location.

The Actor reads exactly what Instagram shows to a logged-out visitor on the location page, through residential connections that Instagram does not block.

### What you get

**Place** (on every row): `locationId`, `name`, `slug`, `locationUrl`, `category`, `address`, `city`, `postalCode`, `phone`, `latitude`, `longitude`, `mediaCount` (total posts tagged at the place), `priceRange`, `businessUsername` (the Instagram account of the business, when linked).

**Post** (one row each): `code`, `url`, `id`, `type` (image, video or carousel), `productType`, `caption`, `hashtags`, `takenAt`, `likes`, `likesHidden`, `comments`, `views`, `username`, `userId`, `image`, `videoUrl`, `carouselCount`, `isPaidPartnership`, `accessibilityCaption`, `position`.

**Changes** on scheduled runs: `isNew` is true for posts that were not among the featured posts in the previous run (null on the first run).

Locations without posts return a single row with `postsFound: 0`. Locations that do not exist return a row with an `error` field and are not charged.

### How to use it

1. Find the location id: open any post tagged at the place, click the place name and copy the URL (`https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/212988663/new-york-new-york/`).
2. Open the **Input** tab and add **Location ids or URLs**, one per line (up to 500 per run).
3. Click **Start** and export the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel.
4. Schedule the Actor to get the new featured posts of the places you follow.

### Input

```json
{
  "locations": ["https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/212988663/new-york-new-york/", "213385402"]
}
```

### Output

One row per featured post:

```json
{
  "locationId": "212988663",
  "name": "New York, New York",
  "category": "City",
  "latitude": 40.7142,
  "longitude": -74.0064,
  "mediaCount": 83895403,
  "postsFound": 15,
  "position": 1,
  "code": "DerAgglmT0M",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DerAgglmT0M/",
  "username": "someone",
  "caption": "love is everywhere!",
  "takenAt": "2026-10-18T19:28:18.000Z",
  "likes": 120,
  "comments": 4,
  "isNew": null,
  "timestamp": "2026-10-19T10:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.002 per location** (featured posts included) and **$0.0005 per new post** detected on a scheduled run. Locations that cannot be read are free. A run of 100 locations costs $0.20.

### Limits and notes

- Instagram shows visitors the featured posts of a place (about 15) without pagination; the total number of posts comes in `mediaCount`.
- Address, phone and price range appear only for businesses that filled them in; cities and regions carry name, category and coordinates.
- The Actor never bypasses logins, CAPTCHAs or rate limits.

### Related Actors

- **Instagram Hashtag Scraper**: featured posts of a hashtag.
- **Instagram Profile Scraper**, **Instagram Post Scraper**, **Instagram Reels Scraper**: profiles, posts and reels.
- **Google Maps Places Scraper**: businesses of a place with contact details.

# Actor input Schema

## `locations` (type: `array`):

One per line: 212988663 or https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/212988663/new-york-new-york/. Up to 500 per run.

## `product` (type: `string`):

Internal. Leave as is.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "locations": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/212988663/new-york-new-york/"
  ],
  "product": "instagram-location"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset items: url, changed, events, data, timestamp and error (when the target failed).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "locations": [
        "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/212988663/new-york-new-york/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("aolmo/instagram-location").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "locations": ["https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/212988663/new-york-new-york/"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("aolmo/instagram-location").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "locations": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/212988663/new-york-new-york/"
  ]
}' |
apify call aolmo/instagram-location --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,aolmo/instagram-location"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/xTvPykR1zAkgJJ9Bf/builds/wWXl79eNE25MLzyF9/openapi.json