Scrape and download Instagram posts based on the topic. Just add one or more Instagram topic URLs. Export scraped datasets, run the scraper via API, schedule and monitor runs or integrate with other tools.
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.
2026-01-12
Fixes
Fixed parsing of profile IDs with improved ID validation:
Removed the restriction that only accepted IDs greater than 99999
The isSponsored output field is now deprecated as Instagram no longer provides this data (it always returns false).
2025-12-08
Features
Added transcript support for Instagram Reels as a paid add-on.
Enable it by setting the input option "includeTranscript": true on the reels
scraper .
2025-12-08
Fixes
Fixed parsing of profile IDs for restricted accounts
2025-11-28
Fixes
For hashtag details and instagram reels partial output was not provided when requests for extra details failed
2025-11-26
Features
Deprecate "resultsType": "stories" in favor of "resultsType": "reels" in all Instagram Actors". Please update your tasks and integrations.
2025-11-05
Fixes
Reels: Some reels (e.g. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGORdc8vJlM/ ) contains separate video fragments for each quality and a separate audio stream. Fixed videoUrl for these cases (before it failed with the error "Invalid handle") and added audioUrl.
2025-11-03
Features
Allows to skip pinned reels in the Instagram Reel Scraper
2025-10-23
Fixes
Hashtag reels scraper now outputs way more results. Also includes slight improvements to keyword search posts and reels
2025-08-19
Fixes
Reparsing tagged users from child posts
2025-08-12
Fixes
Restored google search results
2025-05-14
Fixes
Restored resolving profile details by ID
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
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.
