Instagram Location Scraper - Posts by Place, Top and Recent

Instagram location scraper for a place id, the posts tagged there as rows: caption, like and comment counts, image and video links, the poster, the timestamp, the place name and the place id each row came from. A place page has a Top feed and a Recent feed holding different posts, and you get both.

A place feed is a sample, not an archive: about 70 posts per place, whatever you set the limit to. On the free Apify plan a run may stop after one page, about 24 posts, and a free row says so.

Input	Location IDs, /explore/locations/ URLs, or a place's name (paid add-on)
Output	One row per post: caption, likes, comments, image and video links, poster, timestamp, place name and id
Ceiling	2,000 posts per run, and about 70 per place
Account needed	None
Price	$0.40 per 1,000 posts on the Free plan, a little less on paid plans. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 12,500

Using an AI agent?
Actor	dami_studio/instagram-location-scraper
Set one field	locationIds, labelled "Location IDs" in the Console
Cap the bill	maxTotalChargeUsd on the run, for example 0.10: it never charges past that
MCP, one link	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/instagram-location-scraper
How often	Daily, for new posts from a place

🔍 What Instagram Location Scraper does

You give it places, it returns what people tagged there. Photos, videos and carousels all come back in the same row shape. Every row carries the locationId you asked for, so a multi-place run stays separable. You don't need an Instagram account.

Finding the id takes ten seconds: take the number out of instagram.com/explore/locations/212988663/.

Filters keep a run to a date, to photos or videos, or to a number of posts per place. The place details row adds each place's post count, category, address and coordinates, free.

📋 What data you get from each Instagram location post

What you get	Field
What the post is: a photo, a video or a carousel	type, productType, isVideo
Link and shortcode	url, shortCode
Caption, and the hashtags and handles in it	caption, hashtags, mentions
Likes, comments and video views, and whether likes are hidden or comments off	likesCount, commentsCount, videoViewCount, likesHidden, commentsDisabled
Cover image, video file, every carousel frame and the image size	displayUrl, videoUrl, images, dimensions
Video length in seconds	videoDuration
Who posted it, the accounts tagged in it, and when	ownerUsername, ownerFullName, ownerId, taggedUsers, timestamp
The sound on a reel, and a link to it	audioTitle, audioArtist, isOriginalAudio, audioUrl
Paid partnership, sponsors and co-authors	isPaidPartnership, sponsors, coauthors
Instagram's alt text	accessibilityCaption
Which of your places it came from, and the spot it is tagged at	locationId, locationName
On a place found by name, the name you typed and the place it landed on	searchTerm, placeName
Comments, when the comments add-on is on	topComments
One row per place, when you ask for it	recordType: "place" rows

▶️ How to scrape Instagram posts by location

1. Open the place on Instagram and copy the number out of instagram.com/explore/locations/<id>/.
2. Open Instagram Location Scraper and click Try for free.
3. Paste the number into Location IDs, or the whole URL into Location URLs.
4. Set Max posts. Start at 20 while you look at the output shape.
5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Give it at least one place. With nothing in either field you get one uncharged BAD_INPUT row, not a failed run.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Instagram posts by location?

$0.40 per 1,000 posts on the Free plan. Paid plans pay a little less: $0.395 on Starter, $0.39 on Scale and $0.385 on Business. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 12,500 posts. On the free plan a run may stop after one page and say so in a free row; a paid plan gets the full run.

You pay per post delivered, and a post found in both tabs is billed once. Diagnostic rows, posts your filters leave out and the place details row are free.

Two paid add-ons, billed only when used. Finding places by name costs $0.005 for each name that finds a place on the Free plan, $0.004938 on Starter, $0.004875 on Scale and $0.004812 on Business. A name that matches no place isn't charged. Comments in the post rows cost $0.40 per 1,000 comments on the Free plan, $0.395 on Starter, $0.39 on Scale and $0.385 on Business.

📥 What you give it

{
  "locationIds": ["212988663"],
  "resultsLimit": 50,
  "newerThan": "7 days",
  "includePlaceDetails": true
}

Field	Default	What it is
locationIds	none	The number out of /explore/locations/<id>/. Numeric ids only.
startUrls	none	Or paste the /explore/locations/… URLs. Either works, and you can mix them.
searchTerms	none	Paid add-on: place names to look up, up to 10 a run. Add the city or country if you know it. A free row gives you the name and coordinates of the place it picked, so you can check them. If it picked the wrong one, add more of the name or give the id. If nothing matches you get one free row, no posts and no charge.
placesPerTerm	1	How many of the places that match a name to read, 1 to 10, the likeliest first. A name can match fewer.
resultsLimit	50	Posts for the whole run, not per place, 1 to 2,000. This is also your spend cap.
maxPostsPerPlace	none	Stop each place at this many posts, 5 to 2,000, so later places get read too.
newerThan	none	Only posts from this day on (2026-10-01) or within a window (7 days), in UTC. Reads only the Recent feed, since Top is ranked, not dated.
postTypes	all	all, photos (photos and carousels) or videos (videos and reels). videos reads only the Recent feed, where nearly all of them are.
includePlaceDetails	false	One free row per place with its own details.
commentsPerPost	none	Paid add-on: up to this many comments in each post's row, up to 15. Set it to 12 or more. Posts with only a few comments come back without them, and no comments are charged for those.
sessionCookies	none	Optional: your own session, if you would rather the run read through your account. It is used only for your run, and you are responsible for using it within the site's terms.
proxyConfiguration	none	Optional. Servers of your own are used exactly as given.
notionConnector, notionParentId	none	Optional. Write each post into a Notion data source as well as the dataset.

An entry that is not a number is dropped. Several places are filled in order until resultsLimit is spent, so put the one you care about most first, or set maxPostsPerPlace. A value the run cannot use, such as a date written as "yesterday", stops it before anything is read, with a free row naming it.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a run on 17 October 2026, with the long image links trimmed and the poster replaced by a stand-in:

{
  "ok": true,
  "type": "carousel",
  "shortCode": "DemdUGzjZxx",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DemdUGzjZxx/",
  "caption": "Finally made it to the famous Katz’s deli!!!!!",
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "likesCount": 3,
  "commentsCount": 0,
  "videoViewCount": 0,
  "displayUrl": "https://scontent-ord5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t39.30808-6/...",
  "videoUrl": null,
  "images": [
    "https://scontent-ord5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t39.30808-6/...",
    "https://scontent-ord5-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t39.30808-6/..."
  ],
  "isVideo": false,
  "dimensions": {"height": 1474, "width": 1536},
  "ownerUsername": "example_account",
  "ownerId": "1234567890",
  "timestamp": "2026-10-17T15:43:49.000Z",
  "accessibilityCaption": null,
  "locationId": "1721707",
  "recordType": "post",
  "locationName": "Katz's Delicatessen",
  "productType": "carousel_container",
  "videoDuration": null,
  "ownerFullName": "Example Name",
  "taggedUsers": [],
  "audioTitle": null,
  "audioArtist": null,
  "isOriginalAudio": null,
  "audioUrl": null,
  "likesHidden": false,
  "commentsDisabled": false,
  "isPaidPartnership": false,
  "sponsors": [],
  "coauthors": [],
  "topComments": null
}

And the place details row from the same run:

{
  "ok": true,
  "recordType": "place",
  "locationId": "1721707",
  "locationName": "Katz's Delicatessen",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/1721707/",
  "postCount": 248386,
  "category": "Deli",
  "address": "205 E Houston St",
  "city": null,
  "zip": null,
  "latitude": 40.72222,
  "longitude": -73.98751,
  "phone": null,
  "website": null,
  "facebookPlaceId": "89033874836"
}

Field	How to read it
locationId	Which of your places produced this row.
locationName	The spot the post is tagged at. For a city or an area, Top often holds posts tagged at places inside it.
searchTerm, placeName	Only on rows from a place found by name: the name you typed and the place the run took for it.
shortCode	Unique per post. Use it as your dedupe key across runs.
images	Every frame of a carousel, largest version. A single photo gives you one entry.
videoViewCount, videoUrl, videoDuration	null on stills, as above.
displayUrl, images, audioUrl	Signed links that expire within hours. Download what you want to keep.
audioTitle, audioUrl	Filled on reels that carry a sound. The link is Instagram's own; nothing is downloaded or kept by the run.
isPaidPartnership, sponsors	isPaidPartnership is Instagram's own flag. sponsors lists the brand accounts Instagram names on a paid partnership post. It stays [] on every other post, and on a paid one that names no brand.
topComments	null unless the comments add-on read the post.

🧾 Reading the output

Filter on recordType == "post" and you have your posts.

Row	How to spot it	Billed
A post	recordType: "post" and a shortCode	yes
A place's details: postCount, category, address, city, zip, latitude, longitude, facebookPlaceId, and the phone and website the place lists, any of them null when not shown	recordType: "place"	no
A place a name search picked: searchTerm, locationId, locationName, latitude, longitude	recordType: "place_match"	no, the search is
A diagnostic	ok: false and an errorCode	no

Code	What it means
NO_RESULTS	The place resolved and both tabs came back empty, nothing passed your filters, or a name found no place, with the name in searchTerm. For a name, check the spelling, add the city or give the id, or run it again in a minute.
NOT_SERVED	This post was not served this run. Re-run it later. Runs before 13 October 2026 wrote BLOCKED here.
FREE_PLAN_LIMIT	You are on the free Apify plan, so the run read only part of your input. locationsNotRead lists what it skipped. A paid plan gets the full run.
PARTIAL	Some posts arrived for that place, then the run stopped early. What arrived is correct.
NOT_FOUND	No place answers to that id.
RATE_LIMITED, SERVER_ERROR, NETWORK	Instagram was busy or unreachable. Run it again.
TIME_LIMIT	The run stopped just before its time limit. The posts delivered are kept and charged. Give it more time, or ask for fewer posts, to get the rest.
BAD_INPUT	An option has a value the run cannot use. Nothing was read.
COMMENTS_PARTIAL	Some posts came without their comments. Only comments delivered were charged.
COMMENTS_OFF	Comments per post was set lower than the fewest comments a post needs to be read. Posts came without comments, and none were charged.
UNEXPECTED_ERROR	The run stopped early on an unexpected error. The results before this row are kept.

A diagnostic row does not fail the run, TIME_LIMIT included: a run the time limit stopped before any post came back still ends as succeeded, with an amber status message.

💡 What people use it for

• Seeing what guests actually photograph at a venue before writing the brief for a shoot there.
• Finding local creators who post at a place regularly.
• Checking what a neighbourhood, festival or stadium looks like through its visitors' cameras.
• Keeping a daily record of a place: set newerThan to 1 day and schedule the run.

What visitors say about a place, in three steps:

1. Run this on the place id.
2. Sort the rows on commentsCount and copy the url of the posts at the top.
3. Paste those links into Instagram Comments Scraper and read the conversation under them.

🚧 What it does not do

• About 70 posts per place. Setting the limit higher does not reach further in.
• A place feed is a sample. Instagram decides what sits in Top and Recent.
• Finding a place by name is a good guess, not a lookup. A common name can land on a namesake elsewhere, so check the coordinates on the place_match row, or give the id.
• No private accounts, and no stories or highlights.
• Comments come in Instagram's own order, not newest first, and not on posts with only a few. For a whole thread, use Instagram Comments Scraper.
• No files are stored. audioUrl, videoUrl and the image links are Instagram's own, and expire within hours.
• It is not an official Instagram tool. Dami's Studio is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Instagram or Meta, or by any other company named on this page.

🧭 Which Instagram scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Posts tagged at a place	This one
Posts under a hashtag	Instagram Hashtag Scraper
Everything one profile has posted	Instagram Scraper
Bio and counts for the accounts posting there	Instagram Profile Scraper
One post or reel you have the link for	Instagram Post Scraper
Comments under a post	Instagram Comments Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Where do I find the Instagram location ID?

In the address bar. Open the place on Instagram and take the number out of /explore/locations/<id>/. Or type the place's name in searchTerms, a paid add-on.

Do I need an Instagram account to scrape a location?

No. The cookie field is optional.

Why did I get fewer posts than I asked for?

Because the place had fewer available, or your filters left some out. The public tabs hold roughly 70 posts per place, and you are only billed for what arrived.

Is resultsLimit per place or per run?

Per run. Ask for 100 across three places and you get 100 posts in total, not 300. Set maxPostsPerPlace to share them out.

Why don't I get the same posts I see in the app?

The app shows you, signed in, a feed that shifts by the hour. Open the place in a private browser window: what a logged-out visitor sees there is what a run reads. Likes and comments are a snapshot at read time.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

The API tab has code for Python, JavaScript and the CLI. MCP clients like Claude and ChatGPT use https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/instagram-location-scraper; coding assistants can load our skill file. All three bill your Apify account at the same price.

# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("dami_studio/instagram-location-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "locationIds": ["212988663"],
        "resultsLimit": 20,
    },
    max_total_charge_usd=0.10,  # the most this run may spend
)
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if row.get("ok") is False:  # free note rows, not results
        continue
    print(row.get("timestamp"), row.get("url"))

Is scraping Instagram legal?

This reads public posts only, never private accounts or messages. Results can still contain personal data, which GDPR, PIPEDA and similar laws cover, so keep only what you need. The place row can carry the phone number a business lists, and anti-spam laws such as CASL, the EU e-privacy rules and CAN-SPAM decide how anyone may be contacted. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the location ID you used and the run ID. The code on the diagnostic row usually explains it on its own.