Scrape public Instagram posts and Reels without login and export unique comments with text, usernames, dates, likes, reply counts, and post details. Submit URLs or shortcodes for audience research, content analysis, moderation, and reporting. Run multiple posts in bulk. Pay $1 per 1,000 comments.
Limited anonymous post processing to one worker after real proxy-backed
runs showed intermittent access and transport pressure with concurrent
sessions.
Kept retry/session rotation enabled so transient redirects, access rejects,
and network interruptions recover without incomplete posts or duplicate
Dataset rows.
0.1.19 - 2026-09-01
Prevented previously charged tiered events from being counted twice after a
run restart or resurrection.
Corrected exact spending-limit exhaustion reporting when the last affordable
comment batch is accepted in full.
0.1.16 - 2026-08-26
Added account-tier pricing for each unique delivered comment: Free $0.001, Bronze $0.0009, Silver $0.0008, and Gold, Platinum, or Diamond $0.00075.
Added durable replay-safe billing so migrations and lost charge responses reuse the same Dataset rows and idempotency key.
0.1.9 - 2026-08-19
Removed internal concurrency and retry controls from the public input schema
so Apify-generated request examples contain only user inputs.
Aligned the tracked prefill fixture with the public input contract.
0.1.8 - 2026-08-19
Added customer-facing JSON examples for Actor input and Dataset response.
Added regression coverage to keep both examples present in the public README.
0.1.7 - 2026-08-18
Renamed the proxy secret reference to instagram_comments_private_proxy so
the project has no inherited profile-Actor identifier.
Removed the generic profile-Actor cross-reference from the customer README.
Added a regression test that scans project text surfaces for external Actor
names and legacy proxy-secret naming.
0.1.6 - 2026-08-18
Reworked the public README into complete customer documentation covering
inputs, limits, pricing, output fields, run records, FAQs, and responsible
use.
Removed API request examples and development-only information from the public
documentation.
0.1.5 - 2026-08-18
Expanded the automated suite to 82 deterministic tests covering the complete
measured runtime.
Raised the local coverage gate to 100%: all 888 measured statements must be
exercised before validation can pass.
0.1.4 - 2026-08-18
Expanded the public Actor and SEO descriptions with supported inputs, output
fields, common use cases, and pricing information.
0.1.3 - 2026-08-18
Hid post concurrency and request-attempt controls from the public input UI.
Kept automatic workload-based concurrency and three total request attempts as
the maintained internal defaults.
0.1.2 - 2026-08-18
Hardened pay-per-event validation so only comment-result can be priced.
Added a $1.00 default maximum total charge per Apify run.
Added charge-limit telemetry to the run summary and tests for shared PPE
budget reservations.
0.1.1 - 2026-08-18
Deployed the Actor as a private Apify build with comment-result PPE.
Validated the remote Linux canary with three unique comments and no login or
browser process.
0.1.0 - 2026-08-18
Created a standalone private Actor focused on extracting public Instagram
comments.
Added anonymous public-post comments pagination with recent ordering.
Added per-comment normalization, deduplication, checkpoints, bounded
concurrency, retries, and comment-result PPE billing.
No Store publication performed.
Local reliability audit, 2026-10-19
Runtime/input/storage/recovery corrections and152 passing Linux tests. Real anonymous comments still return authentication-required responses; release remains local_pending. No cloud deployment or promotion. See audit evidence.
2026-10-19 - Local reliability candidate - not released
Public anonymous GraphQL route restored; mandatory proxy route enforced under NO_PROXY. Durable delivery, bounded storage recovery, lifecycle cleanup and GIF-only comments validated locally. The earlier local_pending/source-unavailable note is superseded by the current report. No upload, cloud run, promotion or Git synchronization.
