Instagram Reels Scraper: Plays, Likes & MP4 Links

Instagram reels scraper by profile or reel URL: give usernames (natgeo), profile links or reel links and get each profile's reels newest first, as deep as you ask, with plays, likes, comments, post date, length, sound, caption, the latest comments, the creator's follower count and direct MP4 and audio links. No login. Reels by keyword are built in too.

👤 Creator	📝 Caption	▶️ Plays	❤️ Likes	💬 Comments	📅 Posted
natgeo	Presented by @Rolex. A simple branch becomes a fis…	12,228,428	382,024	1,511	2026-10-02
nasa	🌒➡️🌘➡️🌔 ICYMI: there's a total solar eclipse happe…	11,969,283	389,230	1,657	2026-08-12
nasa	Volume up and get your groove on! A bit of weekend…	10,064,614	248,792	2,652	2026-09-14

$0.58 per 1,000 reels on the Starter plan ($0.69 Free, $0.49 Scale, $0.39 Business). The prefilled run (40 reels) costs about $0.02. No start fee, no minimum.

Reels by profile or URL

• Every reel a profile shows, newest first. The Actor pages through the profile's public reels tab 12 at a time, the way instagram.com/
• Any form of input: natgeo, @natgeo, https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/, instagram.com/natgeo/reels/, a numeric profile id, or reel links (/reel/, /reels/, /p/, /tv/). Several profiles are read at once.
• Only new reels: Reels newer than takes a date (2026-09-01) or a time span (7 days, 3 months). A profile stops paging at its first older reel, so a daily schedule reads a page or two per profile.
• A reel by URL gets the same row: caption, counts, date, sound, place, tags, comments and links. Its play count comes from its creator's latest 36 reels (older reels have no public play count).
• Coming from apify/instagram-reel-scraper? Its saved inputs work as they are: username, resultsLimit, onlyPostsNewerThan, skipPinnedPosts.
• Each reel once: a reel two profiles show (a collab) or one you also gave by URL is delivered and charged once. Unknown usernames and deleted reels are listed in the run summary, never charged.

Download reels (video and audio)

The prefilled form turns on Include video and audio links, so every row carries videoUrl (the reel's MP4 file) and audioUrl (its sound track alone): open them or feed the columns to a downloader. Instagram signs these links and they stop working after a few days, so download soon after the run (or run it again). The 🎬 Videos (MP4) view shows both next to each reel's length, plays and likes.

Reels by keyword

Open Keyword search in the form to find reels by topic instead: Instagram's public topic pages for each keyword (about 45 reels each), then the related searches Instagram lists next to it, in Instagram's order or newest first, with Boolean keywords (("home workout" OR pilates) AND NOT giveaway) and a filter that keeps only reels whose caption names your keyword. It's the engine of Instagram Reels Search, which has the full keyword form; profiles, reel URLs and keywords can go in one run.

What you get

• Numbers on every reel: plays, likes, comments, post date and length, plus the caption, its hashtags and mentions, the cover image, and the creator's username, profile link and verified check.
• The latest comments: firstComment and latestComments, the newest comments a visitor sees (about 14 per reel, with author, time and likes). Free; turn "Add latest comments" off for lighter rows.
• The details Instagram shows logged-out visitors, at no extra cost: the video's view count, the song name, artist and sound id (or "Original audio" and whose it is), the tagged location with coordinates, tagged users, collab co-authors and paid partnership where creators set them, the creator's name, picture and follower count, the video's size, and whether comments are off or likes hidden. Turn "Add reel details" off for the fastest runs.
• Filters that cost nothing: reels newer than a date, skip pinned reels, minimum plays, likes and comments. Reels the filters leave out aren't charged.
• Monitoring for scheduled runs: give the run a "History name" and each scheduled run delivers the reels with playsSinceLastRun, likesSinceLastRun and commentsSinceLastRun since the run before, new ones marked isNew: a daily engagement tracker for a list of reels or profiles (the 🔁 Changes view; see Daily monitoring). Every reel is charged as a normal result. "Only reels never delivered before" is an optional filter: only the reels a profile posted since an earlier run (the run stops at the first reel it already delivered).
• Reels only: a photo or carousel post is left out and never charged.
• Transcripts (optional, paid): turn on "Add transcripts" to get what's said in each reel as text (transcript, transcriptLanguage): Instagram's own speech transcript, read without a login, for reels of any length. $0.0039 per reel with a transcript; reels without speech (music only, silent) aren't charged for it.
• No login, no cookies, no account of yours involved. The Actor reads the public pages Instagram shows every visitor.

Typical uses: tracking a creator's or a competitor's reels, downloading a profile's reels, a scheduled run with "Reels newer than: 1 day" for new posts, and content research by topic.

Input

{
  "profiles": ["natgeo", "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeXXAddgJhQ/"],
  "maxReelsPerProfile": 50,
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "30 days",
  "includeVideoUrl": true
}

• Profiles or reel URLs: usernames, profile URLs, numeric ids or reel URLs, one per line. Audio pages (reels that use a sound) aren't supported yet.
• Max reels per profile: newest first, default 100. Max results (Advanced) caps the whole run.
• Include video and audio links: adds videoUrl and audioUrl.
• Add transcripts: adds transcript and transcriptLanguage (off by default; $0.0039 per reel whose transcript has 3+ words).
• Add latest comments: on by default and free; adds firstComment and latestComments.
• Add reel details: on by default and free; adds the video's views, the creator's name, picture and follower count, the sound, location, tagged users, collaborators, partnership and sponsor fields and the video's size (keys below marked details). Comments need it on.
• Filters: Reels newer than, Skip pinned reels, Min plays, Min likes (reels whose creator hides likes are left out), Min comments.
• History name (Monitoring): the key-value store in your Apify account that remembers delivered reels; a later run with it adds each reel's growth since (playsSinceLastRun, ...) and isNew. Only reels never delivered before: an optional filter, off by default: only reels no run with this history delivered; a profile's tab is read until the first reel an earlier run delivered (empty history name = named after your inputs). See Daily monitoring.
• Keyword search: Keywords (phrases, #hashtags, instagram.com/popular/ topic URLs or Boolean searches), Max reels per keyword, Sort by (Most relevant or Newest first), Continue with related searches, Only reels that mention the keyword. See Instagram Reels Search for how each works.

Output

One row per reel, in the dataset's 📊 Overview view. 🎬 Videos (MP4) shows the file links, 👤 Creators who made each reel with hashtags and mentions, 📈 Stats only the numbers. The run's OUTPUT record (🧾 Run summary) lists each profile, reel URL and keyword with its status (ok, missing, invalid, error), why it stopped and counts.

Output fields

• cover: the reel's cover image. Instagram signs media links; they stop working after a few days.
• caption: full caption.
• captionSnippet: first 50 characters of the caption.
• transcript: what's said in the reel, Instagram's own speech transcript (its auto-captions) as plain text, no timings; null for reels without speech (transcripts, a paid add-on).
• transcriptLanguage: the transcript's language (ISO 639-1: en, es, de, ...), null when it's too short to tell (transcripts).
• alt: Instagram's own alt text for the reel ("Video by
• authorUsername: the creator's username, without @.
• authorFullName: the creator's display name (details).
• reelUrl: https://www.instagram.com/reel/
• authorVerified: the creator has the blue check.
• authorFollowers: the creator's follower count (details).
• plays: play count (the number Instagram's reels tab shows). A reel given by URL has it when it's among its creator's latest 36 reels (older reels: null).
• views: the video's view count, a separate counter from plays (often a quarter to a half of them), as Instagram's public embed widget shows it; null when the creator hides counts or turned off embedding (details).
• likes: like count (null when the creator hides it).
• comments: comment count.
• playsSinceLastRun: plays gained since the last run that delivered this reel; null for a new reel (monitoring: only with a history name or "Only reels never delivered before").
• likesSinceLastRun: likes gained since then (monitoring).
• commentsSinceLastRun: comments gained since then (monitoring).
• fbLikeCount: likes on the reel's Facebook cross-post, when the creator shares reels to Facebook (details).
• durationSeconds: length in seconds.
• mediaType: reel (a Reels post) or video (a feed video). Photos and carousels are never rows.
• productType: Instagram's product type: clips for a Reels post, feed or igtv (details; in runs with profiles or reel URLs).
• postedAt: when it was posted (UTC).
• isPinned: pinned to the top of the creator's reels tab (profile and reel URL rows).
• rank: position in the profile's reels tab (pinned reels first), or in Instagram's list for a keyword row's topic (1 = first; null for reel URL rows).
• isNew: true when no earlier run with this history delivered the reel (monitoring).
• firstSeenAt: when a run with this history first delivered the reel (UTC) (monitoring).
• lastSeenAt: when an earlier run last delivered it (UTC); null for a new reel (monitoring).
• audioTitle: the reel's sound: a song name, or Original audio (details).
• audioArtist: the sound's artist, or the account whose original audio it is.
• isOriginalAudio: true when the sound is the creator's own audio, false for a song (details).
• locationName: the place tagged on the reel (details).
• taggedUsers: accounts tagged in the reel, each as {username, fullName, id, profilePicUrl, isVerified} (details).
• collaborators: collab co-authors shown next to the creator, in the same shape (details).
• isPaidPartnership: marked as a paid partnership (details).
• sponsors: brands named in the paid partnership label, in the same shape (details); Instagram usually hides them from visitors who aren't logged in, so this is mostly null even when isPaidPartnership is true.
• hashtags: hashtags in the caption, lower case, without #.
• mentions: accounts mentioned in the caption, without @.
• firstComment: the newest comment a visitor sees (details, with "Add latest comments" on, the default).
• latestComments: the newest comments a visitor sees (about 14), each as {id, text, ownerUsername, ownerProfilePicUrl, ownerIsVerified, timestamp, likesCount, repliesCount} (same switches).
• hasHiddenLikes: the creator hides the like count (likes is then null) (details).
• isCommentsDisabled: comments are turned off (details).
• latitude: the tagged place's latitude (details).
• longitude: its longitude (details).
• videoWidth: the video's width in pixels (details).
• videoHeight: its height (details).
• videoUrl: direct MP4 link, with "Include video and audio links" on (signed; expires after a few days).
• audioUrl: direct link to the reel's sound track (MP4 audio), same switch and expiry (in runs with profiles or reel URLs).
• images: the cover frame in two sizes, full size first, then 320 px wide (signed; expires after a few days) (details).
• authorAvatar: the creator's profile picture (signed; expires after a few days) (details).
• authorProfileUrl: the creator's profile.
• inputUrl: the profile or reel URL from your input the reel came from (in runs with profiles or reel URLs).
• keyword: your keyword this reel was found for (in runs with keywords).
• topic: the Instagram search it came from: your keyword, or a related search Instagram lists for it (keyword runs).
• matchedTerms: for a Boolean keyword, the words and phrases of it the reel's caption or creator holds (keyword runs).
• shortCode: the reel's shortcode.
• reelId: Instagram's numeric media id.
• audioId: Instagram's id of the sound; reels with the same id use the same sound (details).
• locationId: Instagram's id of the tagged place (details).
• authorId: the creator's numeric user id.
• scrapedAt: when the run collected it (UTC).

Every row of a run has the same keys: inputUrl, isPinned, productType and audioUrl come with profiles and reel URLs, keyword, topic and matchedTerms with keywords. Key names match our TikTok Video Search Actor where both have the field, so the two go into one sheet.

Example row (a profile row, video and audio links on; latestComments shortened to its first comment here):

{
  "cover": "https://scontent-lax3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/842191580_18656578867049152_4200499629839780998_n.jpg?...",
  "caption": "POV: you're watching the Earth set\n\nWe just released hundreds of new images and hours of new audio from our Artemis II mission around the Moon this spring. Check out our link in bio for the Artemis II Preliminary Lunar Science Report.\n\n#NASA #ArtemisII #Artemis",
  "captionSnippet": "POV: you're watching the Earth set We just release…",
  "transcript": "Would you look at that man? Wow. No wonder.",
  "transcriptLanguage": null,
  "alt": "Video by NASA on October 10, 2026. May be an image of planet, eclipse and text.",
  "authorUsername": "nasa",
  "authorFullName": "NASA",
  "reelUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeTUk4sDSp-/",
  "authorVerified": true,
  "authorFollowers": 104348062,
  "plays": 8803898,
  "views": 3006729,
  "likes": 612960,
  "comments": 5937,
  "fbLikeCount": null,
  "durationSeconds": 43.8,
  "mediaType": "reel",
  "productType": "clips",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-10T15:15:02Z",
  "isPinned": false,
  "rank": 1,
  "audioTitle": "Original audio",
  "audioArtist": "nasa",
  "isOriginalAudio": true,
  "locationName": null,
  "taggedUsers": [
    {
      "username": "nasaartemis",
      "fullName": "NASA Artemis",
      "id": "1104426670",
      "profilePicUrl": "https://scontent-lax3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-19/670016304_18577283653042671_4689932669633757619_n.jpg?...",
      "isVerified": true
    }
  ],
  "collaborators": null,
  "isPaidPartnership": false,
  "sponsors": null,
  "hashtags": [
    "nasa",
    "artemisii",
    "artemis"
  ],
  "mentions": null,
  "firstComment": "😍😍😍",
  "latestComments": [
    {
      "id": "18435033883198108",
      "text": "😍😍😍",
      "ownerUsername": "domusaureaarchitecture",
      "ownerProfilePicUrl": "https://scontent-dfw5-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/118140493_305011100779012_9040235127101458324_n.jpg?...",
      "ownerIsVerified": false,
      "timestamp": "2026-10-12T18:19:43Z",
      "likesCount": 0,
      "repliesCount": null
    }
  ],
  "hasHiddenLikes": false,
  "isCommentsDisabled": false,
  "latitude": null,
  "longitude": null,
  "videoWidth": 1074,
  "videoHeight": 1908,
  "videoUrl": "https://scontent-lax7-1.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t2/f2/m86/AQNUvreb47JFAC3mKM7kF_weYHzhiVF-MfERm99CfyBTok0ezeRdbVW8cH5NXn4mxO8gVi6j1GQ2RU9i4ByvKCLVPHdDruUpsCKYDQI.mp4?...",
  "audioUrl": "https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t2/f2/m78/AQPB4JL-DRgi9IPGEW-CRYYVXhI25dlK6MjaV6MVLn6z-PjYWWDHQ8paV0zV_HrR6itVi3lQcobq2zQ38W6sABUwWavnfWG0BvOCn3w.mp4?...",
  "images": [
    "https://scontent-lax3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/842191580_18656578867049152_4200499629839780998_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&...",
    "https://scontent-lax3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/842191580_18656578867049152_4200499629839780998_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_p320x320_tt6&..."
  ],
  "authorAvatar": "https://scontent-lax3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/29090066_159271188110124_1152068159029641216_n.jpg?...",
  "authorProfileUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/nasa/",
  "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/nasa/",
  "shortCode": "DeTUk4sDSp-",
  "reelId": "4004634989362489982",
  "audioId": "28589819277311219",
  "locationId": null,
  "authorId": "528817151",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-12T18:21:54Z"
}

Daily monitoring

Track how reels grow, every day: each run delivers the reels it finds with how much each one grew since the run before, and marks the new ones.

1. Add your profiles (or reel URLs) and set "Max reels per profile" (12 covers a few weeks of posts for most creators).
2. Open Monitoring and give the history a name, e.g. creators-watch.
3. Save it as a task and schedule it daily (Schedules in Apify Console).

The first run delivers what's there and remembers it in the key-value store creators-watch in your account. Each later run delivers every reel it finds again: the ones an earlier run delivered carry what changed since, new ones have isNew: true. The 🔁 Changes view shows the growth, and OUTPUT's monitoring part counts the new and the seen-again reels. A reel read again 13 minutes after a run first delivered it (2026-10-20):

{
  "plays": 35246,
  "likes": 1413,
  "comments": 4,
  "playsSinceLastRun": 184,
  "likesSinceLastRun": 9,
  "commentsSinceLastRun": 0,
  "isNew": false,
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-20T17:02:39Z",
  "lastSeenAt": "2026-10-20T17:02:39Z"
}

What it costs: every reel a run delivers is charged as a normal result, new or seen before: $0.58 per 1,000 reels at Starter. 10 profiles with 12 reels each (120 reels a day) cost about $0.07 a day, $2.09 for 30 days.

Only new reels instead: turn on Only reels never delivered before (off by default) and a run leaves out every reel an earlier run with this history delivered: they aren't charged, and you get no growth numbers for them.

Apify lets an Actor open only the named stores it made itself, so if a store of that name already exists in your account (made by another Actor or by hand), this Actor keeps its history next to it as creators-watch-instagram-reels-scraper; OUTPUT and the status message say so. A new name starts a fresh history; the store keeps the last 100,000 reels.

Pricing

Pay per result: you pay for reels delivered, never for unknown profiles, deleted reels or reels your filters leave out.

Plan	Per 1,000 reels
Free	$0.69
Starter	$0.58
Scale	$0.49
Business	$0.39

Transcripts ("Add transcripts", off by default): $0.0039 per reel with a transcript, on every plan, on top of the reel. Reels without speech (music only, silent) or with fewer than 3 words aren't charged for it.

Set a maximum cost on the run and the Actor stops at or before it. Proxies are included: the Actor uses Apify Proxy and switches to residential IPs on its own if Instagram keeps refusing datacenter ones.

Good to know

• What a visitor sees, nothing more. Rows come from Instagram's public profile reels tabs, reel pages and topic pages, the same ones anyone can open without an account. Instagram shows share counts only to logged-in viewers, so rows have no shares; private accounts show no reels (the run summary says so).
• Plays are the counts Instagram's reels tab shows. A reel given by URL that is older than its creator's latest 36 reels has no public play count, so plays is null there.
• Views (views) are Instagram's own video view counter, a separate one from plays, read from each reel's public embed widget.
• Reel details come from each reel's public post data, its public embed widget and its creator's public profile (read once per creator); when Instagram doesn't answer one of them, the others fill in what they can.
• If Instagram ever refuses every IP, the run fails with a clear message instead of finishing empty; a profile whose reels tab comes back empty is checked against a profile that always has reels first.
• Big runs: the Actor stops a little before the run's timeout and keeps every reel it delivered; raise the timeout in the run options for very large runs.

Related Actors

• Reels by keyword, every option in one form: Instagram Reels Search, the same engine.
• Also need Threads data? Threads Scraper searches Meta Threads by keyword or hashtag and returns posts, replies and profiles with likes and view counts, with no login.

Feedback

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