🔥 Instagram Comment Scraper

Scrape comments from public Instagram posts and reels. Add one or more post URLs and get comment text, authors, likes, timestamps, and optional replies in clean JSON.

✨ Key Features

• 💬 Extract comments from posts and reels
• 👤 Commenter username, verification, and avatar
• ❤️ Like counts and reply counts
• ↩️ Optional nested replies (paid upstream add-on)
• 🔗 Comment URL and source post URL
• 📋 Structured JSON output, streamed while the run is in progress

💪 Why Choose This Actor?

• Focused: Built specifically for Instagram comment extraction
• Flexible: Works with post and reel URLs
• Efficient: Results are pushed continuously while the job runs
• Structured: Renamed, integration-friendly field names
• Reliable: Stable public-data extraction

🎯 Perfect For

• 📊 Sentiment and campaign feedback analysis
• 🔔 Brand mention and abuse monitoring
• 🏢 Competitor engagement research
• 🤖 LLM / moderation pipelines that need clean comment text

📝 Input Requirements

• postUrls (required): One or more Instagram post or reel URLs
• maxCommentsPerPost (optional): Max top-level comments per URL. Default: 15
• includeReplies (optional): Also scrape replies. Default: false (paid upstream add-on). Total rows can exceed maxCommentsPerPost

Input Example

{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8-GjPkgjS",
    "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDIJAfeyemG"
  ],
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 15,
  "includeReplies": false
}

Output Example

{
  "commentId": "17949788698583607",
  "body": "Imagine scrolling to find the end of these comments! 😂",
  "authorUsername": "gabriel2005120",
  "authorAvatarUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/...",
  "publishedAt": "2021-11-19T13:54:13.000Z",
  "likeCount": 12,
  "replyCount": 1,
  "replies": [],
  "author": {
    "userId": "123456789",
    "username": "gabriel2005120",
    "isVerified": false
  },
  "commentUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8-GjPkgjS/c/17949788698583607/",
  "postUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8-GjPkgjS/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-21T03:00:00.000Z"
}

🚀 How to Use

1. Add one or more post/reel URLs to postUrls
2. Set maxCommentsPerPost
3. Optionally enable includeReplies
4. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML

📌 Notes

• Only public posts and reels can be scraped
• Free upstream usage may return only the newest top comments
• Free users of this actor have run and result-size limits; upgrade for unlimited usage