Instagram Post Details Scraper

Look up a single Instagram post, reel, or IGTV video by URL, shortcode, or numeric media ID. Returns the caption, like / comment / share / view counts, media URLs, carousel slides, audio track info, tagged users, location, accessibility caption, and author details. Provide exactly one of url or code.

Features

• Real-time Instagram data — results are fetched live at run time, never cached or stale
• No login, cookies, or proxy configuration needed — just provide the input and run
• Each result is pushed as a separate dataset item, exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel
• Fast: a typical run finishes in seconds

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
url	string	no	Instagram post, reel, IGTV, or story URL, e.g. https://www.instagram.com/p/CxYQJO8xuC6/ (max 500 characters). Must be an instagram.com URL containing /p/, /reel, /tv/, or /stories/. Provide either url or code.
code	string	no	The post's shortcode, e.g. CxYQJO8xuC6, or numeric media ID (max 50 characters, letters/digits/-/_ only). Provide either url or code.

Pricing

This Actor is billed per run — a flat $0.006 per run.

• One run returns all matching results for your input, and costs $0.006 — whether it comes back with one result or hundreds.
• You’re only charged when a run succeeds. Failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "post": {
    "title": "@instagram on Instagram",
    "url": "https://instagram.com/p/DaTSSukB-Lb",
    "date": "2026-07-02 18:58:11",
    "date_timestamp": 1783018691,
    "author": "instagram",
    "author_id": "25025320",
    "source": "Instagram",
    "domain": "instagram.com",
    "snippet": "this glow >>> #InTheMoment Video by @chriswoodlight Music by Amory Reel",
    "likes": 167541,
    "comments": 2493,
    "shares": 13063,
    "reposts": 0,
    "views": 21786137,
    "is_video": true,
    "media_type": "clips",
    "author_verified": true,
    "author_name": "Instagram",
    "hashtags": [
      "#InTheMoment"
    ],
    "mentions": [
      "chriswoodlight"
    ],
    "media_id": "3932567351408976603",
    "thumbnail_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/cover.jpg",
    "video_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t2/video.mp4",
    "video_duration": 22.03,
    "width": 720,
    "height": 1280,
    "carousel_media_count": 0,
    "is_paid_partnership": false,
    "ai_label": {
      "label": null,
      "detection_method": "NONE"
    },
    "location": null,
    "tagged_users": [
      {
        "username": "chriswoodlight",
        "full_name": "Chris Wood Light Studio",
        "user_id": "2107151539"
      }
    ],
    "coauthors": [],
    "carousel_media": [],
    "audio": {
      "type": "music",
      "title": "her garden",
      "artist": "Amory Reel",
      "audio_id": "7115801341882925",
      "duration_ms": 89205
    },
    "is_pinned": false,
    "accessibility_caption": ""
  }
}

About

Maintained by Data Direct — a small suite of fast, reliable Instagram and web-data scrapers. Each actor returns clean, structured results with no login, cookies, or proxy setup required. Have a question or a custom data need? Open an issue on this actor.