# Instagram Comments Scraper (`automly/instagram-comments-scraper`) Actor

Scrape comments from Instagram posts and reels: text, likes, date and commenter username, newest first. Thousands of comments per post, a date filter for new comments, and a real-time API. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automly/instagram-comments-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Automly](https://apify.com/automly) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.40 / 1,000 comments

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Instagram Comments Scraper

### What is Instagram Comments Scraper?

**Instagram Comments Scraper** is a tool that lets you **scrape comments from Instagram posts and reels**: comment text, number of likes, publish date, commenter username and ID, verified badge and profile picture. Paste post or reel links, click **Start**, and download the comments as Excel, CSV or JSON.

- ⚡ **Speed:** about 8,000 comments per minute (6,000 comments from 30 posts in 41 seconds in our test)
- 📚 **Depth:** thousands of comments per post, not just the first 15
- 🔔 **New comments only:** get just the comments posted since a date you choose
- 🔓 **No login:** no Instagram account, cookies or API key needed

### What can Instagram Comments Scraper do?

- Scrape comments from any public **Instagram post or reel**
- Get **thousands of comments** from posts with tens of thousands of comments
- Get comments **newest first**, with the exact date and time of each
- Keep only comments **posted after a date** to follow a conversation on a schedule
- Scrape **many posts in one run**, each comment linked to its post
- Get results in seconds over the **real-time API**, without starting a run
- Export to Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML or XML, or send them to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier and more

### What data can you extract from Instagram comments?

| | | |
|---|---|---|
| 💬 Comment text | ❤️ Number of likes | 📅 Publish date and time |
| 👤 Commenter username | 🆔 Commenter ID | ✅ Commenter verified |
| 🖼️ Commenter picture | 🔗 Post link | 🆔 Post ID and shortcode |

### How to scrape Instagram comments

1. [Create a free Apify account](https://console.apify.com/sign-up) (no credit card needed).
2. Open **Instagram Comments Scraper**.
3. Paste one or more **post or reel links**, one per line.
4. Choose how many comments you want per post and, if you like, a start date, then click **Start**.
5. When the run finishes, download your comments as Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML or XML.

### ⬇️ Input

Links can be posts (`https://www.instagram.com/p/DdG4RIxIPyf/`) or reels (`https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdG4RIxIPyf/`), with or without extra parameters.

| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Post or reel URLs | The posts and reels to scrape |
| Comments per post | The most comments to get from each post, newest first (default 100) |
| Comments posted after | Only comments posted on or after this date |

Example: up to 2,000 comments from two posts.

```json
{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/p/DdG4RIxIPyf/",
    "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdHyaYAifb6/"
  ],
  "resultsPerPost": 2000
}
```

Example: only the comments posted since 1 September 2026.

```json
{
  "postUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/p/DdG4RIxIPyf/"],
  "resultsPerPost": 10000,
  "commentsPostedAfter": "2026-09-01"
}
```

### ⬆️ Output

You get one row per comment. You can view them as a table in Apify Console or download them as Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML or XML. `postShortCode` and `postUrl` tell you which post each comment belongs to.

```json
{
  "id": "17963476829984376",
  "text": "day 1 telling the @nasa that my first legal name is \"Marte\"😭",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-25T00:18:09Z",
  "likes": 0,
  "ownerUsername": "acepta_solicitud_desempleado",
  "ownerId": "37156140381",
  "ownerVerified": false,
  "ownerProfilePicUrl": "https://scontent-mia3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-19/812...jpg",
  "postShortCode": "DdHyaYAifb6",
  "postId": "3983374110243288826",
  "postUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DdHyaYAifb6/",
  "source": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdHyaYAifb6/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-25T00:30:37Z"
}
```

Each run also saves a short report that lists how many posts and comments it covered, and any post it could not scrape with the reason (for example, a deleted post).

### How can I use Instagram comments data?

- **Audience research:** learn what your followers, or a competitor's, love, ask for and complain about
- **Brand monitoring:** follow what people say under your posts and your campaigns
- **Giveaways and contests:** collect every entry from a giveaway post
- **Sentiment analysis and AI:** build comment datasets for sentiment, topic or trend analysis
- **Influencer vetting:** check comment quality and real engagement before you work with a creator

### How to monitor new Instagram comments

1. Add the posts you want to follow.
2. Set **Comments posted after** to the date of your last run (or leave it and use a high **Comments per post**).
3. [Schedule the actor](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules) to run every day or every hour, and send the new comments to Slack, email or a spreadsheet with an [integration](https://apify.com/integrations).

### Real-time Instagram comments API

Need comments right away inside your app? Call the actor's API and get the comments back in the response, without starting a run:

```
GET https://<your-actor-standby-url>/comments?url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DdG4RIxIPyf/&limit=200&since=2026-09-01
Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>
```

You can also run the actor from your own code with the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2) or the Python and JavaScript clients:

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("automly/instagram-comments-scraper").call(run_input={
    "postUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/p/DdG4RIxIPyf/"],
    "resultsPerPost": 1000,
})
for comment in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(comment["ownerUsername"], comment["text"])
```

### ❓FAQ

#### How much does it cost to scrape Instagram comments?

You pay only for the comments you get, per 1,000 comments. See the **Pricing** tab for the current price. Every Apify account gets $5 of free usage each month, so you can try it at no cost.

#### How many comments can I scrape from one Instagram post?

Thousands. Set **Comments per post** to the number you need; the scraper keeps going until it has that many or the post has no more.

#### Why do I get fewer comments than the number shown on the post?

The number Instagram shows on a post includes replies to comments. This scraper collects the comments themselves, not the replies under them. In our tests a post showing 482 comments had 394 comments plus replies.

#### In what order do the comments come?

Newest first. That is what makes **Comments posted after** work: the scraper stops as soon as it reaches older comments.

#### Do I need an Instagram account?

No. You don't need an Instagram account, cookies or an API key.

#### Can I scrape comments from private accounts?

No. Only public posts can be scraped. Private, deleted or mistyped posts are skipped and listed in the run report.

#### Is it legal to scrape Instagram comments?

This scraper only collects comments that people chose to post publicly. It does not collect private data such as email addresses or phone numbers. Comments can still contain personal data, which may be protected by laws such as GDPR, so only scrape it for a legitimate reason and ask a lawyer if you are unsure. You can read more in [Is web scraping legal?](https://blog.apify.com/is-web-scraping-legal/)

Instagram Comments Scraper is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Instagram or Meta.

#### Something isn't working. What should I do?

Open the **Issues** tab and tell us the post link and what you expected. We usually reply within a day.

### Scrape more Instagram data

| Actor | What you get |
|---|---|
| [Instagram Posts & Reels Scraper](https://apify.com/automly/instagram-profile-posts-scraper) | A profile's posts and reels, to find the posts worth scraping comments from |
| [Instagram Post Scraper](https://apify.com/automly/instagram-post-details-scraper) | Full details of posts and reels from their links |
| [Instagram Profile Scraper](https://apify.com/automly/instagram-profile-data-scraper) | Bio, followers, following and post count of the commenters |

# Actor input Schema

## `postUrls` (type: `array`):

Links to Instagram posts or reels, e.g. https://www.instagram.com/p/DdG4RIxIPyf/ or https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdG4RIxIPyf/.

## `resultsPerPost` (type: `integer`):

The most comments to scrape from each post, newest first.

## `commentsPostedAfter` (type: `string`):

Only comments posted on or after this date, e.g. 2026-09-01 (UTC if no offset). Useful for getting just the new comments on a schedule.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. The default works for most runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/p/DdG4RIxIPyf/"
  ],
  "resultsPerPost": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `report` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "postUrls": [
        "https://www.instagram.com/p/DdG4RIxIPyf/"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("automly/instagram-comments-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "postUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/p/DdG4RIxIPyf/"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("automly/instagram-comments-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/p/DdG4RIxIPyf/"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call automly/instagram-comments-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,automly/instagram-comments-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/AQOYwXWe5Zmdf5u2P/builds/bja1nFBWkgHzIyz1P/openapi.json