Instagram Search Scraper

Search Instagram by keyword and extract structured results for places, profiles, hashtags, or popular reels. Use it to discover local businesses, find creators, research hashtag volume, and spot trending short-form content.

✨ Key Features

• 📍 Places: name, category, phone, address, coordinates, hours, and recent posts
• 👤 Profiles: username, bio, followers, verification, business info, and recent posts
• #️⃣ Hashtags: name, post volume, related / frequent tags, and top posts
• 🎬 Popular reels: caption, engagement, creator info, video URL, and music metadata
• 🔎 Multi-keyword search in one run
• 📋 Structured JSON output, streamed while the run is in progress

💪 Why Choose This Actor?

• Focused: Built for Instagram discovery search, not full profile dumps
• Flexible: Switch between places, profiles, hashtags, and popular reels
• Efficient: Results are pushed continuously while the job runs
• Structured: Renamed, integration-friendly field names

🎯 Perfect For

• 🏪 Local business and location discovery
• 📢 Influencer and creator prospecting
• 🏷️ Hashtag research and content planning
• 📈 Trend spotting via popular reels

📝 Input Requirements

• keywords (required): One or more search keywords
• resultCategory (required): places, profiles, hashtags, or popularReels
• maxResultsPerKeyword (optional): Max results per keyword (1–250)
• useLiveSearch (optional): Use Instagram live search
• enrichWithFacebook (optional): Enrich top profile matches with Facebook page info

Input Example

{
  "keywords": ["restaurant", "cafe prague"],
  "resultCategory": "hashtags",
  "maxResultsPerKeyword": 10
}

Output Example

{
  "keyword": "restaurant",
  "label": "restaurant",
  "pageUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/restaurant/",
  "mediaTotal": 12345678,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-25T08:00:00.000Z"
}

🚀 How to Use

1. Add one or more keywords
2. Choose a result category
3. Set maxResultsPerKeyword and click Start
4. Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML

📌 Notes

• Avoid special punctuation in keywords (e.g. ! ? # @)
• Popular reels usually return fewer matches than place / profile / hashtag search
• Output fields vary by result category — unused fields are null