🕵️ Instagram Post Intelligence — Early Commenters & Spread Signals

Deep-dive intelligence for any Instagram post — without login and without cookies. Powered by the Ghostfox anti-detect browser engine.

🔍 What you get per post

Engagement (exact, live numbers):

• Exact likes & total comments (via embed enrichment)

Early commenter sample:

• Visible commenters with usernames, relative timestamps (3 s, 10 s, 4 h) and comment text
• Captured in display order — the sample Instagram shows to logged-out visitors

Caption intelligence:

• Full caption + all @mentions (credit/tag chain extraction)

Spread & bot-pattern heuristics (honestly labeled as heuristics):

• median_comment_gap_sec — comments arriving in second-level bursts suggest coordinated activity
• emoji_only_ratio — majority emoji-only comments suggest low-effort/paid engagement
• repeat_commenters — same users commenting repeatedly in a small sample
• comments_per_like — abnormally high ratio suggests comment-buys
• Combined bot_signal: low / medium / high with human-readable signal_notes

💰 Pricing

$5.00 per 1,000 analyzed posts — each result is a full intelligence dossier.

⚙️ Input

Field	Description
postUrls	Instagram post URLs or shortcodes (required)
maxComments	Max visible comments to capture per post (default 20)
scrollForComments	Scroll to load more visible comments (default true)
proxy	Optional proxy URL — recommended for jobs with many posts

📊 Sample output

{
  "item_type": "post_intel",
  "shortcode": "De4ydmnAMes",
  "author_username": "cristiano",
  "posted_at": "4 h",
  "caption": "71 years of passion. Happy birthday, Al Nassr! 🟡🔵",
  "mentions": [],
  "likes": 1493180,
  "comments": 15468,
  "early_commenters": [
    {"username": "sadegh_lazemi7", "time_ago": "3 s", "text": "😍😍😍"},
    {"username": "ghazale.7.7", "time_ago": "3 s", "text": "❤️"}
  ],
  "commenter_count": 8,
  "median_comment_gap_sec": 7,
  "emoji_only_ratio": 0.65,
  "bot_signal": "medium",
  "signal_notes": ["65% emoji-only comments"]
}

🔬 How it works

1. The post page loads through the anti-detect engine (coherent fingerprint, invisible capture).
2. Visible comments (logged-out sample) are extracted positionally — usernames, relative timestamps, text.
3. Exact engagement comes from the embed endpoint (public, no login).
4. Heuristics are computed over the sample and honestly reported — a sample, not the full comment tree (full pagination requires login).

⚠️ Notes

• Comment capture is the visible logged-out sample — for viral posts this skews to recent comments. The heuristics account for this.
• For heavy jobs, bring a residential proxy in the proxy field.