Instagram Post Scraper

This changelog summarizes all changes of the Instagram actors provided by the Apify organization. The specific actors that are affected are listed for each change.

2024-12-19

Features

• Added support for comments just with animated GIFs (no text) saved as media dataset item property

2024-11-23

Fixes

• Restored Instagram Hashtag Stats Scraper. Dataset now includes latestPosts and topPosts.

2024-11-08

Fixes

• Restored Instagram Comments Scraper. Free users are now limited to maximum 20 results per post. No limit for paying users.

2024-11-05

Fixes

• Restored Instagram Mentions Scraper. Free users are now limited to maximum 20 results per profile. No limit for paying users.

2024-10-23

Fixes

• Instagram Hashtag Stats migrated to new format with rounded posts count and related-frequent tags instead latest-top posts.

2024-10-22

Fixes

• Restored Instagram Hashtag Scraper after the data source was put down by Instagram today. Free users are now limited to maximum 20 results per hashtag. No limit for paying users.

2024-10-18

Fixes

• Fixed issue that caused some runs to stall for a long time without getting results. This happened when the input of Instagram Scraper defined "search": "any_keyword", "searchType": "hashtag". Since users only pay for results, there wasn't any extra cost for the user.
• Fixed a very rare issue where some runs could stall and continue printing RequestQueue2: The request queue seems to be stuck. We reverted to the version of queue that doesn't have this issue.

2024-10-15

Fixes

• Instagram Hashtag Scraper was fully restored to the same functionality as before 9th of October. You can again receive 100s of thousands of results per hashtag and the order is mostly sorted from newest to oldest.

2024-10-11

Fixes

• Improved number of results for Instagram Hashtag Scraper, especially when Number of posts per hashtag (resultsLimit) was small.

Features

• Added Only scrape posts with exact hashtag in (onlyPostsWithHashtagIn) to Instagram Hashtag Scraper input. You can choose hashtags to require the exact hashtag be present or hashtag-or-text where the keyword can be in the caption of the post. hashtags is the default value and the previous behavior.

2024-10-09

Fixes

• Important: Instagram put hashtag scraping fully behind login. To work around this issue, Instagram Hashtag Scraper now uses Google Search to find posts with specific hashtags. This means you will get different amount and order of results. The team is examining options to restore the original functionality.

2024-10-03

Fixes

• Only comments available without login are latestComments from post details, so amount even more limited than before and comments scraper just forwarding latest comments as separate dataset items

2024-08-05

Features

• Don't retry requests on removed profiles, improve speed

2024-06-17

Features

• Restricted profiles resolved with partial details

2024-04-23

Features

• Profile search results from ThreadsNet autocomplete appended to Facebook Ads results and continued by Google Search
• Added value searchSource (instagram, threads, facebook-ads or google) to dataset items saved from search

2024-04-02

Features

• New API format to parse reels like https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4rQqstCWTQ/

2024-02-07

Features

• Added coauthorProducers to posts and reels, sample https://www.instagram.com/p/C2vSQcOPkf6/ - note that web page show only first coauthor i.e. "lekkercoffee_rino" but in fact it might be more, i.e. https://www.instagram.com/cocoffeeshops/ feed includes sample "C2vSQcOPkf6" Fixes
• Post-reel hashtags and mentions parsed from parent comment(s) by owner, i.e. https://www.instagram.com/p/C2vSQcOPkf6/ and https://www.instagram.com/p/C2P_5CLRgWS/

2023-11-03

Features

• Added enhanceUserSearchWithFacebookPage that enables enhancing user search with Facebook data that sometimes contains business emails. Facebook data are added under facebookPage output field.
• All search types are now enhanced with up to 200 extra search results from Google Search. This means:
  • Hashtag (top 50 results via Instagram + up to 200 from Google Search)
  • User (top 10 results via Facebook ads + up to 200 from Google Search)
  • Location (up to 200 from Google Search)

2023-10-30

Fixes

• Partially fixed search again after the previous solution stopped working
  • Hashtag - fully restored
  • User - 14 max results via Facebook Ads
  • Location - found via Google Search

2023-10-25

Fixes

• Fixed search after Instagram changed endpoints

2023-10-17

Features

• Monorepo to get rid of internal actor metamorph and delay caused by it.

2023-10-10

Fixes

• Search for hashtags and places was shortly not working for some inputs due to internal bug in the last day. It is fixed now.

Older changes were removed from the changelog as we changed reporting the format.