Instagram Location Scraper

Collect public Instagram posts and reels tagged at any place, together with the place's details: name, category, coordinates, total post count, the venue's own Instagram account and today's opening hours. For restaurants, shops, gyms, hotels and other venues you also get the street address, phone, website and Google rating, matched from Google Maps. Every post comes with caption, media, likes, comments, reel play counts, owner and hashtags, in a clean, structured format.

Add place links or IDs, choose how many posts you need, and export the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them through the Apify API. No Instagram account or login needed.

What This Actor Does

• Collects the recent and top public posts and reels tagged at each place
• Saves one row of place details per place: category, coordinates, how many posts Instagram has for it, the venue's own Instagram account and today's opening status
• Adds each venue's street address, phone, website and Google rating from Google Maps, which Instagram itself does not provide
• Supports many places in one run and never returns the same post twice
• Accepts place links or plain place IDs
• Can skip posts older than a date you choose
• Returns engagement (likes, comments, reel play counts), media, audio, owner and tagged users

Best For

• Local marketing and finding creators who post from a venue, city or neighbourhood
• Monitoring what people post at your business, a competitor's, or an event venue
• Tourism, travel and real-estate research
• Building location datasets for maps, dashboards, NLP or AI workflows

Input

Add one or more Instagram places and set how many posts to collect for each.

Main input fields

• startUrls One place per row: a place link such as https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/213131048/berlin-germany/, or just its ID (213131048).
• resultsLimit How many posts to collect for each place. Set 0 to collect place details only.
• onlyPostsNewerThan Skips posts published before this date, for example 2026-09-01 or 7 days.

Inputs written for other location scrapers (locationIds, maxItems, until) also work.

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/213131048/berlin-germany/",
    "213385402"
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 100
}

Output

The run has two tables: Posts & reels (one row per post) and Places (one row per place).

Post fields

Field	Description
url, shortCode, id	Post link and identifiers
type, productType	Image, Video or Sidecar (carousel); clips for reels
caption, hashtags, mentions	Post text and the hashtags and accounts it mentions
timestamp	Publish time (ISO 8601, UTC)
likesCount, commentsCount	Engagement counts
videoPlayCount, videoDuration	Play count and length for reels and videos
displayUrl, images, videoUrl, audioUrl	Media links
ownerUsername, ownerFullName, ownerId	Who published the post
taggedUsers, coauthorProducers	Tagged accounts and collaborators
locationName, locationId	The place the post is tagged at
locationTab	recent or top: which of the place's feeds the post is in
inputUrl	The place you entered

Place fields

Field	Description
id, name, url	Place ID, name and link
category	For example City, Restaurant, Park
lat, lng	Coordinates
mediaCount	How many posts Instagram has for the place
businessUsername, businessUrl, businessId	The venue's own Instagram account, when it has one
openingStatus	Today's hours, for example Open until 9:00 PM
address, city, zip	Street address of venues
phone, website	Venue contact details
googleMaps	The matched Google Maps listing: title, address, street, city, postalCode, state, countryCode, phone (international format), phoneUnformatted, website, category, rating, reviewsCount, placeId, url, distanceMeters

Example output

{
  "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/213131048/berlin-germany/",
  "id": "3985535646503749253",
  "type": "Video",
  "productType": "clips",
  "shortCode": "DdPd43hg0aF",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DdPd43hg0aF/",
  "caption": "Sunday at the Spree #berlin",
  "hashtags": ["berlin"],
  "timestamp": "2026-09-28T15:03:16.000Z",
  "likesCount": 1204,
  "commentsCount": 18,
  "videoPlayCount": 23410,
  "ownerUsername": "example_creator",
  "locationName": "Berlin, Germany",
  "locationId": "213131048",
  "locationTab": "recent"
}

Media links are provided by Instagram and expire after a while, so download any files you need soon after the run.

How To Use

1. Find a place on Instagram (tap the location on any post) and copy its link, or its ID.
2. Add one or more places to startUrls.
3. Set resultsLimit to how many posts you need for each.
4. Run the actor and open the Posts & reels and Places tables, or export them as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the Apify API.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing, so you only pay for results you receive:

• Place — charged once for each place saved to your dataset.
• Post — charged once for each post or reel saved to your dataset.
• Actor start — a small fixed fee of $0.001 per run.

Places that can't be found are not charged. Platform usage is included in these prices. Current prices for each Apify plan are shown on the actor's Pricing tab.

Free plan

On the Apify free plan, each run processes up to 2 places and up to 20 posts per place. Upgrade to a paid Apify plan to remove these limits.

Best Practices

• Use specific places (a venue, park or neighbourhood) rather than a whole city: each place gives its own set of posts.
• Start with a small resultsLimit to check the output quickly.
• Run the actor on a schedule to keep collecting a busy place's newest posts over time.

FAQ

How many posts can I get per place?

Instagram shows the public about 85 posts per place: roughly 60 of the most recent and 25 top posts. Older posts are only visible to logged-in users.

Can I search for a place by name?

Not yet. Place search needs an Instagram login. Open the place on Instagram and paste its link or ID instead.

Where do the address, phone and website come from?

Instagram's place pages carry no street address or website, even for logged-in users. The actor looks each venue up on Google Maps by its name at Instagram's exact pin, and keeps the result only when the name matches and the listing is right there; googleMaps.distanceMeters shows how close it is. When there is no confident match the fields stay empty rather than guessing.

Why do cities have no address?

Cities, regions and neighbourhoods are areas, not venues, so they get coordinates and category but no street address.

Responsible Use

Use this actor only for publicly available content, and make sure your use complies with applicable laws (including data protection rules such as GDPR) and Instagram's terms. Avoid collecting personal data you don't need.

Troubleshooting

• Check the run log: it names any place that could not be found.
• Make sure the link is a place link (/explore/locations/...) and not a profile or hashtag.
• Test with a small resultsLimit before large runs.