Instagram User Posts Scraper

Get a single Instagram user's recent posts and reels (their feed) by profile URL or username. Returns post captions, engagement metrics (likes, comments, shares, views), author metadata, hashtags, and mentions. Supports fetching multiple pages in a single API call (billed per page). Provide exactly one of url or username.

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 profile URL, e.g. https://instagram.com/natgeo (max 500 characters). Provide either url or username.
username	string	no	Instagram username, with or without leading @ (max 100 characters). Provide either url or username.
pages	integer	no	Number of pages to fetch and merge into one response (billed per page). Each page returns up to 12 posts.

Pricing

This Actor is billed per page of results — $0.006 per page.

• Results come in pages. Use the pages input to choose how many pages to fetch (1–10); more pages means more results.
• You pay $0.006 for each page you fetch, so pages: 3 costs $0.018 and pages: 1 costs $0.006.
• You’re only charged when a run succeeds. Failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "count": 24,
  "pages": 2,
  "posts": [
    {
      "author": "natgeo",
      "author_name": "National Geographic",
      "author_verified": true,
      "comments": 5608,
      "date": "2026-06-14 16:00:06",
      "domain": "instagram.com",
      "hashtags": [],
      "is_video": false,
      "likes": 530176,
      "media_type": "carousel_container",
      "mentions": [
        "petelas"
      ],
      "reposts": 4353,
      "shares": 9536,
      "snippet": "Photograph by @petelas | A curious fox in the snow...",
      "source": "Instagram",
      "title": "@natgeo on Instagram",
      "url": "https://instagram.com/p/DZkn1f0Flsc",
      "views": null,
      "media_id": "3520497851234567890",
      "thumbnail_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/cover.jpg",
      "video_url": "",
      "video_duration": null,
      "width": 1080,
      "height": 1350,
      "carousel_media_count": 3,
      "is_paid_partnership": false,
      "location": {
        "name": "Serengeti National Park",
        "city": "Arusha",
        "lat": -2.3333,
        "lng": 34.8333
      },
      "tagged_users": [
        {
          "username": "natgeotv",
          "full_name": "National Geographic TV",
          "user_id": "18091046"
        }
      ],
      "coauthors": [],
      "carousel_media": [
        {
          "media_id": "3520497851234567891",
          "is_video": false,
          "image_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/slide1.jpg",
          "video_url": "",
          "width": 1080,
          "height": 1350
        },
        {
          "media_id": "3520497851234567892",
          "is_video": false,
          "image_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/slide2.jpg",
          "video_url": "",
          "width": 1080,
   
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About

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