Instagram API Scraper
Pricing
Pay per event
Instagram API Scraper
Scrape and download Instagram posts, profiles, places, hashtags, photos without login. Supports search keywords and URL lists. Download your data as HTML table, JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and RSS feed.
4.6 (9)
Pricing
Pay per event
67
Monthly users
474
Runs succeeded
>99%
Response time
4.5 days
Last modified
3 days ago
You can access the Instagram API Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=apify/instagram-api-scraper"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1faUsing Instagram API Scraper via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use Instagram API Scraper within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Instagram API Scraper Actor with the provided input.
1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3 "id": 1,
4 "method": "tools/call",
5 "params": {
6 "arguments": {
7 "directUrls": [
8 "https://www.instagram.com/humansofny/"
9 ],
10 "resultsType": "posts",
11 "resultsLimit": 200,
12 "searchType": "hashtag",
13 "searchLimit": 1
14},
15 "name": "apify/instagram-api-scraper"
16 }
17}'The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
1event: message
2data: {
3 "result": {
4 "content": [
5 {
6 "type": "text",
7 "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8 }
9 ]
10 }
11}Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Instagram API Scraper
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
1{
2 "mcpServers": {
3 "actors-mcp-server": {
4 "command": "npx",
5 "args": [
6 "-y",
7 "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8 "--actors",
9 "apify/instagram-api-scraper"
10 ],
11 "env": {
12 "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13 }
14 }
15 }
16}You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
Pricing
Pricing model
Pay per eventThis Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Actor start
$0.005
Flat charge for starting an Actor run.
Result
$0.002
Each result written to the dataset by the URL.
Search result
$0.005
Each search result written to the dataset by the Search query.
Add-on: Date filter
$0.001
Extra cost per post scraped with a date filter.
