Instagram Location Scraper: Your hawk-eye on Instagram Locations

Introducing the Instagram Location Scraper, your premier solution for harvesting data from locations on Instagram.com. Renowned for its exceptional speed and thoroughness, this tool facilitates quick and comprehensive extraction of posts from any Instagram.com location. Ideal for researchers seeking in-depth data on Instagram.com locations or companies aiming to leverage geographical insights, the Instagram Location Scraper is the go-to resource. Additionally, it offers remarkable value at just $0.50 per 1000 posts, with the capability to scrape between 100-200 posts per second!

ℹ️ Disclaimer

We are professionals specializing in data extraction. This actor is exceptionally fine-tuned for scraping Instagram, providing you with a comprehensive suite of tools. Moreover, we provide top-tier maintenance and exceptional support. Pure data - at your fingertips. You name it, we get it.

Important Note About Usage

This scraper is designed to collect posts from specific Instagram locations. Please make sure to follow these rules:

• The selected location should have at least 10 posts available. Using low-activity places leads to inefficient runs.
• Always set your maxItems value to greater than 10 to ensure a proper data fetch.
• Scraping locations with too few posts may trigger our rate-limiter and can result in blocked requests.
• Free users: Limited to 5 runs per month, each capped at 10 items

🐉 Features and Functionality

• No Authentication needed. 🛡️
• Super cheap. $0.50 per 1K results. 💰
• No proxy needed. High flexibility, perfectly customized. 🐉
• Simple Output, extremely fast. ⚡️
• Lightning speed, extreme efficiency, and fits for all types of usage. 🚀
• Simple date filter for only including posts created on or after a date.

🆓 Demo Mode & Free Users

Users on the Free Plan can use the actor only in Demo Mode. Free users can run the actor up to 5 times per month, with each run capped at a maximum of 10 items — just enough to test it out. To use this actor without limitations, subscribe to a paid plan on Apify. Subscribe here.

👹 Competitors

There are no direct competitors of Instagram Location Scraper. All other scrapers on the market, uses it as a functionality rather than focusing only that part. Getting this data can be tough and it always requires a special care and maintenance. Therefore, Instagram Location Scraper is one and only at the current moment.

🎎 Who needs this?

The Instagram Location Scraper is engineered to deliver outstanding efficiency.

• Marketing and Advertising Professionals: Marketers and advertisers can use location data to analyze trends, hashtags, and the popularity of products or events in specific areas. This can help them tailor their campaigns to target audiences more effectively, understand competitor activities, and identify influencers who could amplify their message.
• Lead Generation Experts: With detailed insights into the interests and activities of people in specific areas, Lead Generation experts can design highly targeted advertising campaigns. This ensures that marketing efforts are directed toward individuals most likely to be interested in the product or service, improving conversion rates and ROI.
• OSINT Professionals: OSINT professionals can use location-based data to monitor and analyze trends, events, or activities in specific areas. This can be crucial for security assessments, investigative journalism, or research. Understanding the context and sentiment in a particular location can help in piecing together information that's not readily apparent, offering insights into political movements, cultural events, or security threats.
• Real Estate Professionals: Real estate agents and companies can use Instagram.com location data to understand the popularity and perception of different neighborhoods or properties. This insight can help in marketing properties more effectively, identifying areas with high potential for investment, or even guiding clients on the most Instagrammable spots to boost their property's appeal.
• Retail and E-commerce: Retailers and e-commerce businesses can leverage location-based insights from Instagram.com to understand where their products are being used or talked about the most. This can inform decisions on where to open new stores, what products to stock more of in certain locations, and how to create localized marketing campaigns that resonate with the community's preferences.

🍜 Output Example

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "1234567890123456789",
  "code": "ABCdefGhIjK",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/ABCdefGhIjK/",
  "createdAt": "2025-01-15T10:20:30.000Z",
  "likeCount": 123,
  "commentCount": 45,
  "caption": "Example caption text with #hashtags and @mentions.",
  "isAvailable": true,
  "isLikeAndViewCountsDisabled": false,
  "isPinned": false,
  "isPaidPartnership": false,
  "isCarousel": false,
  "isVideo": true,
  "owner": {
    "id": "9876543210",
    "username": "example_user",
    "fullName": "Example User",
    "profilePicUrl": "https://example.com/profile.jpg",
    "isPrivate": false,
    "isVerified": true
  },
  "coowners": [
    {
      "id": "9876543212",
      "username": "example_user_2",
      "fullName": "Example User_2",
      "profilePicUrl": "https://example.com/profile2.jpg",
      "isPrivate": false,
      "isVerified": true
    }
  ],
  "location": {
    "id": "555555555",
    "name": "Example Place",
    "city": "Sample City, Country",
    "lat": 40.7128,
    "lng": -74.006
  },
  "video": {
    "id": "video_12345",
    "url": "https://example.com/video.mp4",
    "width": 1080,
    "height": 1920,
    "duration": 12.34
  },
  "image": {
    "url": "https://example.com/image.jpg",
    "width": 1080,
    "height": 1350"
  },
  "audio": {
    "id": "audio_98765",
    "title": "Example Track",
    "artist": "Example Artist",
    "coverArt": "https://example.com/cover.jpg",
    "duration": 180000,
    "audioUrl": "https://example.com/audio.mp4"
  }
}

🍚 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description	Default value
startUrls	array	Instagram URLs. Paste the URLs and get the results immediately. Location URLs are supported.	[]
locationIds	array	Instagram Location IDs. You can find the IDs from the location links. ID for https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/213131048/berlin-germany/ would be 213131048.	[]
maxItems	number	Maximum number of items that you want to receive as output	Infinity
until	date	Date filter. Only include posts created on or after this date.	"2025-01-01"
customMapFunction	string	JavaScript function to transform each output item. Ignored with a warning if it is not a usable function (see Custom Map Function).	null
outputConnector	string	MCP connector to deliver the results to — pick one (see Send results straight into Notion, Todoist and more).	null
deliverTarget	string	Where the connector writes — paste the URL or ID (Notion example: https://www.notion.so/My-Posts-24f8a1b2c3d44e5f8a9b0c1d2e3f4a5b); some services need none.	null
deliverMode	string	perPost (one record per scraped item) or summary (one roll-up per run).	perPost
deliverMaxItems	number	Optional cap on how many records perPost delivers (ignored in summary).	null

🧩 Custom Map Function

Transform output using the customMapFunction parameter. This JavaScript function receives each post object and returns your desired format-add engagement metrics, flatten owner or location data, or calculate custom analytics.

Important: Custom map function is for data transformation-not for filtering. Filtering items may result in automatic restrictions. Returning an empty object does not remove the item from the dataset-it is saved as { "noResults": true } instead.

Example: Engagement and Location Flattening

(object) => ({
  ...object,
  totalEngagement: (object.likeCount ?? 0) + (object.commentCount ?? 0),
  username: object.owner?.username,
  isVerified: object.owner?.isVerified,
  locationName: object.location?.name,
  locationCity: object.location?.city,
  video: undefined,
  image: undefined
})

Common Transformations

Use Case	What to Add
Engagement Analysis	totalEngagement, likesToComments, performanceScore
Owner Flattening	username, fullName, isVerified
Location Flattening	locationName, locationCity, lat, lng
Data Cleanup	Set video: undefined, image: undefined

Requirements & Error Handling

The value must be a single JavaScript function that takes one item and returns the transformed item. Arrow functions and regular functions both work; async and generator functions are not supported.

Limits: the function runs in an isolated sandbox. It must be synchronous and finish within about 1 second per item, and only plain JavaScript is available (no network requests, require or console). Each item is passed in as plain JSON data.

An unusable function never stops your run. The actor logs a warning, ignores the function, and saves the original, unmodified items instead-so you still get your data:

Situation	What happens
Not valid JavaScript (for example, plain text pasted into the field)	Rejected before the first request; original items are saved
Valid JavaScript but not a function (for example, an object)	Rejected before the first request; original items are saved
async or generator function	Rejected before the first request; original items are saved
Returns a Promise (for example, (object) => Promise.resolve(object))	Rejected at that point; the remaining items are saved unmodified
Returns something other than an object (for example, a number or null)	Rejected at that point; the remaining items are saved unmodified
Throws while transforming an item	Rejected at that point; the remaining items are saved unmodified
Takes longer than about 1 second on one item (for example, an endless loop)	Rejected at that point; the remaining items are saved unmodified
Uses date operations (new Date, Date.now, 1970)	Rejected-use the until input to filter by date instead

If your output does not look transformed, check the run log for a warning that starts with Your "customMapFunction" input was rejected:-it explains exactly what was wrong.

If you do not need to transform the output, simply leave this field empty.

🔌 Send results straight into Notion, Todoist and more (MCP connectors)

Skip the manual exports — the scraper can deliver its results directly into the tools you already work in, through Apify MCP Connectors:

1. Authorize a connector (Notion, Todoist, or any service whose MCP server offers non-destructive write tools) once in Console → Settings → API & Integrations → MCP connectors.
2. Pick it from the Send results to Notion, Todoist, … dropdown.
3. Fill in where and how to write:
   • Destination target — paste the URL or ID (Notion example: https://www.notion.so/My-Posts-24f8a1b2c3d44e5f8a9b0c1d2e3f4a5b); share it with your connector first via Notion's ••• → Connections menu. (Some services need no target.)
   • Write mode — perPost writes one record per scraped item; summary writes a single roll-up for the run.
   • Max records to deliver (optional) — cap on how many records perPost delivers.

Notion, structured like a spreadsheet: point the target at a Notion page and the Actor auto-creates a database with one correctly-typed column per field (URL, number, date, text). An existing database fills the columns it already has (matched by name); an empty database receives only the title, with the rest of each record in the row body. Nested fields are flattened too (e.g. location becomes location.name, location.city, location.lat, …), and the full record is kept in each row's page body.

Your credentials stay yours: the Actor only talks to your services through your own authorized connector and only uses non-destructive write tools — it cannot delete or overwrite anything you already have. Delivery is best-effort and runs after scraping: if it fails or the connector is misconfigured, the run still finishes successfully with all results intact and a warning in the log. If the run is about to time out, delivery stops early and the log tells you how many records were delivered.

🔧 Troubleshooting

• Getting Few Results? Check "Maximum number of items on output" (maxItems) field, and "Maximum charged results" fields. These two fields enable you to handle the total number of results. Leaving both empty will result infinite results.
• Are Some Outputs Missing? Ensure that you review all fields, not just the overview. You can navigate to the "Storage" tab and select either "Download the results" or "Open in a New Tab."
• Getting No Results? Confirm that your parameters are not overly restrictive.
• Not Receiving New Items After a Large Batch? Examine the log for messages like "Logging is too fast, some lines were skipped." If you encounter this issue, consider scraping smaller amounts of data to avoid it.

📞 Contact and Feature Requests

If you need any sort of support, please send an email to apidojo10@gmail.com. You name it, we get it.

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