🔥 Instagram Hashtag Scraper

Discover public Instagram posts and reels by hashtag or keyword. Extract captions, locations, engagement metrics, media URLs, tagged users, and audio metadata in clean JSON.

✨ Key Features

• #️⃣ Scrape recent posts and carousels for one or more hashtags
• 🎥 Discover recent reels under those hashtags
• 🔎 Optional keyword search mode for slightly different discovery results
• ❤️ Likes, comments, shares, views, and play counts
• 📍 Location name and location ID when available
• 🎶 Music / original audio metadata
• 📋 Structured JSON output, streamed while the run is in progress

💪 Why Choose This Actor?

• Focused: Built for hashtag and keyword content discovery
• Flexible: Posts or reels, hashtag or keyword
• Efficient: Results are pushed continuously while the job runs
• Structured: Renamed, integration-friendly field names
• Reliable: Stable public-data extraction

🎯 Perfect For

• 🔥 Trend and topic research
• 📊 Marketing and campaign monitoring
• 🏢 Competitor and niche content tracking
• 🔔 UGC and brand-mention discovery
• 🤖 LLM / RAG pipelines that need clean post text + media

📝 Input Requirements

• tags (required): Hashtags (with or without #) or keywords
• contentType (optional): posts or reels. Default: posts
• maxResultsPerTag (optional): Max results per tag. Default: 20
• searchByKeyword (optional): Treat tags as keywords instead of hashtags. Default: false

Input Example

{
  "tags": ["natgeo"],
  "contentType": "posts",
  "maxResultsPerTag": 10,
  "searchByKeyword": false
}

Output Example

{
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/birdsofinstagram",
  "postId": "3760856117124658777",
  "mediaType": "Image",
  "code": "DQxPrZwkfZZ",
  "text": "I love how the female Cardinal blends into her background...",
  "tags": ["northerncardinal", "cardinals", "birdsofinstagram"],
  "mentionedUsers": [],
  "postUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DQxPrZwkfZZ/",
  "commentCount": 0,
  "likeCount": 289,
  "publishedAt": "2025-11-07T20:56:47.000Z",
  "placeName": "Cranberry Marsh, Ajax on",
  "placeId": "1916295438661954",
  "authorName": "SeenbySteve - Steve Spracklin",
  "authorUsername": "seenbysteve5",
  "authorId": "47342785521",
  "contentKind": "feed",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-21T02:00:00.000Z"
}

🚀 How to Use

1. Add one or more hashtags/keywords to tags
2. Choose posts or reels
3. Set maxResultsPerTag and optionally enable searchByKeyword
4. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML

📌 Notes

• Only public Instagram content can be scraped
• Free plan usage on the upstream source may cover only the first page of results
• Free users of this actor have run and result-size limits; upgrade for unlimited usage