Instagram Search Scraper
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Instagram Search Scraper
Scrape Instagram search results: places, businesses, locations, users, and hashtags. Add a keyword and extract search results like contact details, categories, metrics, recent posts, hashtag popularity. Export scraped data, schedule scraper via API, and integrate with other tools or AI workflows.
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What can Instagram Search Scraper do?
Instagram Search Scraper lets you extract Instagram search results for hashtags, places, or profiles and extract detailed, structured data about them. Add one or more keywords, and the scraper will find matching profiles, hashtags, or locations.
📍 Places
🏠 Extract metadata such as place name, category, phone, price range, slug, and location ID
⏰ Access opening hours and status (open/closed, opening/closing times)
📍 Get location details including full address, city, zip, latitude, and longitude
🕺 Profiles
👤 Extract account metadata such as ID, username, profile URL, full name, bio, and external URLs
📊 Collect followers, following, posts count, verification, and profile picture
🏢 Access business info: business account status, category, Facebook page info, joined recently
🏙️ Get location details including city, street address, latitude & longitude, and zip code
#️⃣ Hashtags
🏷️ Extract hashtag metadata such as name, ID, URL, posts count, posts per day, and difficulty
📊 Collect average, frequent, and rare hashtags with usage volume
📈 Access related average and related rare hashtags with usage volume
🦾 Overall
⬇️ Export the results in JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML
🦾 Access all data programmatically via SDKs (Python & Node.js), API endpoints, and webhooks
🤳 Explore more of our social media scrapers
Use Instagram Search Scraper to discover local businesses and profiles, explore trending and related hashtags, have a brief analysis of content popularity, and monitor local or niche posts.
What data can I scrape using this Instagram Search API?
Using this Instagram Search API, you will be able to extract the following Instagram search results, depending on the search type you've picked — place, profile, or hashtag:
| 📍Places | |
| 🔍 Search | search term, search source, input URL |
| 🏠 Place | name, category, phone, price range, slug, location ID |
| 📊 Stats & media | media count, profile pic URL, username, ID |
| ⏰ Hours | status, opening/closing times |
| 📝 Posts | 12 latest posts (type, caption, images, hashtags, location, comments, likes, views, media) |
| 📍 Location | address, city, zip, latitude, longitude |
| 🕺Profiles | |
| 🔍 Search info | search term, search source, input URL |
| 👤 Account info | ID, username, profile URL, full name, bio, external URL(s) |
| 📊 Stats & features | followers & follows count, has channel, posts count, verified, profile picture |
| 🏢 Business info | is business account, business category, Facebook page info, joined recently |
| 🏙️ Location | city, street address, latitude & longitude, zip code |
| 🖼️📹 Posts | 12 latest posts (images, carousels, videos, captions, hashtags, likes, comments, views, music info) |
| #️⃣ Hashtags | |
| 🔍 Search | search term, search source |
| 🏷️ Hashtag | name, id, url, posts count, posts per day, difficulty |
| 📊 Average, frequent, rare | hashtag, volume |
| 📈 Related average, related rare | hashtag, volume |
Tip: To scrape detailed content for a user, use our 🔗 Instagram Profile Scraper. If you need to extract details from specific location URL rather then places in general, go for the 🔗 Instagram Scraper.
How to scrape Instagram search results?
- Create a free Apify account.
- Find Instagram Search Scraper.
- Add one or multiple keywords, choose a search type (user, hashtag, or place), and the number of results per keyword.
- Click “Save & Start” to start the scraper.
- Download your data in JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML, or access it through API.
💡 Tip: Search is not the only way to do discovery on Instagram, hashtags are still as important. You can first find valuable hashtags on your topic using this Instagram Search Scraper, and then drill down on each hashtag separately using 🔗 Instagram Hashtag Scraper. It will find you all popular reels or posts related to each hashtag. And if you want to extract all possible hashtags on a given topic, use our 🔗 Instagram Related Hashtag Stats Scraper. It has similar functionalities as this seach scraper, just no limitation on number of results.
How much will scraping Instagram Search results cost?
Instagram Search Scraper uses a pay-per-result (PPR) model. On the Free plan, it costs $2.60 per 1,000 results — which gives you nearly 2,000 results for free with $5 credit.
Paid plans include discounted PPR rates and more monthly credit. For instance, on Starter plan, you’ll pay $2.30 per 1,000 results, giving you up to 17,000 results each month. Check the pricing tab for full details and discounts.
⬇️ Input
Enter one or more keywords, then choose which type of search to perform: place, user or hashtag. A keyword may consist of one or multiple words. To scrape multiple search terms at once, just submit them into the same field as a comma-separated list. You can also specify the number of results you’d like to get per keyword.
⬆️ Output
The results appear in a dataset in the Storage tab. You can view them as a table, download them in JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML, or access them via API.
📍 Extracted Instagram Search data sample (search by places)
🕺 Extracted Instagram Search data sample (search by profiles)
#️⃣ Extracted Instagram Search data sample (search by hashtags)
Want to get other data from specific Instagram profiles or posts?
You can use the other dedicated scrapers below if you want to scrape specific Instagram data:
For more advanced use cases, check out 🔗 Instagram Scraper or 🔗 Instagram API Scraper. They cover almost all functionalities of the dedicated scrapers.
❓FAQ
My Instagram Search dataset is too long. How can I shorten it to keep only location data?
Go to Storage, then Dataset tab, then scroll down to Advanced options. Choose Posts in Omit fields and you'll have only the main data in your dataset.
Can I scrape Instagram search by multiple keywords at once?
Yes. You can provide a list of separate keywords with a type to scrape separate datasets. You can also add multiple terms simultaneously — just separate them with a comma and you'll have all results in a single dataset.
Can I use keywords that include both a word and a location?
Absolutely. Keywords can include anything. For example:
- Searching
cakesfor profiles returns user accounts. - Searching
praguefor Places gives you locations. - Combining them, like
cakes prague, will return different results depending on the type: for Places, likely cafes and registered businesses; for Profiles, likely creatives, small businesses, or entrepreneurs.
What's the best way to scrape local businesses on Instagram?
It depends on what you want to find. Using the same keyword for Places vs. Profiles often yields different results. For example, cakes prague as a Place search often shows cafes, while as a Profile search, it shows creatives, small businesses, and entrepreneurs. This isn’t a strict rule, but it’s a common pattern that's connected to whether an account is listed in a certain business category or not. You can also try our 🔗 Local Lead Generation Agent we've built to find local businesses that are active on Instagram.
What are the best practices for searching hashtags?
Start with single-word hashtags. Multi-word hashtags usually return fewer results.
Where are the search results for this Instagram Search Scraper coming from?
Results come from Google, Facebook Ads, or Threads.
Is it legal to scrape Instagram content?
Our Instagram Search Scraper only collects publicly available data from Instagram. It does not access private content. Some public data may still be considered personal data under regulations like the GDPR. Only scrape data if you have a legitimate reason. For guidance, see our blog on the legality of web scraping.
Can I integrate Instagram Search data with other services?
Yes. Scraped data can be integrated with almost any cloud service or web app. Apify supports Zapier, n8n, Slack, Make, Airbyte, Gumloop, CrewAI, IFTTT, Lindy, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and more. You can also use webhooks to trigger actions whenever a run finishes, like sending notifications or syncing datasets.
Can I use this Instagram Search API programmatically?
Yes. The Apify API provides programmatic access to run Actors, fetch datasets, monitor performance, and manage tasks. For Node.js, use the apify-client NPM package. For Python, use the apify-client PyPI package. Full API docs are available in the Apify API reference.
Can I get Instagram Search results through an MCP server?
Yes. You can connect to an MCP server using clients like ClaudeDesktop or LibreChat, or build your own integration. For Instagram Search Scraper:
- Start a Server-Sent Events (SSE) session to receive a
sessionId. - Send API messages using that
sessionIdto trigger the scraper. - The message starts the Instagram Search Scraper with the provided input.
- The response should be: Accepted.
Learn more in MCP setup guide.
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