Instagram Hashtag Scraper

Pull top or recent Instagram posts for any hashtag, without a login. Hand the actor a list of tag names and get back a clean, structured row for every post: its permalink, the owner (username, full name, verified badge), media type, like, comment and view counts, caption, and post date. Pagination is walked automatically up to the limit you set per hashtag.

What it does

• Top or recent posts per hashtag. Top surfaces the highest-engagement content; recent gives you the freshest posts in reverse-chronological order.
• One clean row per post, with the owner, engagement metrics, caption and post date already parsed into fields, so you can sort and filter instead of scraping HTML.
• Media type on every row (photo, video, carousel), plus a video/reel view count where the post is a video.
• Deep pagination: ask for hundreds or thousands of posts per tag and the actor walks page after page until it reaches your cap or the tag runs out.
• Several hashtags at once, processed in parallel.

Common uses: trend and content research, finding creators in a niche, tracking a campaign or branded hashtag, building a content dataset, and monitoring how a topic moves over time.

Input

Field	Type	Description
hashtags	array	Tag names without the #. A full tag link works too.
resultType	string	top (highest engagement) or recent (freshest first). Default top.
maxPostsPerHashtag	integer	Cap per hashtag. Default 100.
concurrency	integer	How many hashtags to process in parallel. Default 5.

Example input

{
  "hashtags": ["travel", "foodphotography"],
  "resultType": "top",
  "maxPostsPerHashtag": 500
}

Output

Each item is one post.

{
  "type": "post",
  "hashtag": "travel",
  "shortcode": "DbBElQUopEy",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DbBElQUopEy/",
  "ownerUsername": "example_user",
  "ownerFullName": "Jane Doe",
  "ownerId": "100000001",
  "ownerIsVerified": false,
  "mediaType": "video",
  "isVideo": true,
  "likeCount": 735,
  "commentCount": 196,
  "viewCount": 72961,
  "caption": "Sunset over the old town #travel",
  "takenAt": "2026-01-18T14:32:00.000Z",
  "displayUrl": "https://example.com/media.jpg",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-01-20T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Notes

• resultType changes the ordering, not the fields. Top is engagement-ranked; recent is newest first.
• A hashtag stops when it runs out. Ask for 500 on a small tag and you get however many exist, not 500 padded rows. The run log states the count per tag.
• viewCount is present for videos and reels and is null for photos and carousels, which do not have a play count.
• mediaType is one of photo, video, or carousel. isVideo is a convenience boolean for the video case.
• takenAt and scrapedAt are ISO 8601 UTC timestamps.
• A post whose owner has since gone private or been removed will drop out of the grid; the actor returns what the tag currently exposes.

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