Instagram Reels Scraper

ℹ️ About

An efficient and straightforward Actor for scraping Instagram posts, profiles and Reels, designed with performance in mind.

✨ Features

• Retrieve profile stats such as followers, bio, username, and links.
• Scrape reels, including likes, play counts, comments, captions, and music metadata.
• Choose the number of reels to scrape per profile.
• Scrape thousands of profiles and posts seamlessly.

⚙️ Inputs

• tags: A list of Instagram usernames to scrape.
• reels_count: Define the target number of reels to scrape per profile.
• target: Choose to scrape profiles only, posts only or both.
• post_urls: Scrape Instagram posts (or reels) using their URL or code.
• include_raw_data: Include raw data collected from Instagram in the final results.

Example:

This input will scrape zuck's profile, 8 of the latest reels from his feed, and one post with the code DFNkPgRROOS:

{
  "tags": [
    "zuck"
  ],
  "target": "all",
  "reels_count": 8,
  "post_urls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/p/DFNkPgRROOS"
  ],
  "include_raw_data": true,
  "custom_functions": "{ shouldSkip: (data) => false, shouldContinue: (data) => true }"
}

Custom functions

This is an advanced parameter that you can use to modify the crawler's behavior. With custom functions, you can skip a post or profile based on its data or stop crawling a profile's reels when a certain condition is met.

For example, you can skip posts if they don't have music metadata:

{
  shouldSkip: (data) => data.kind == 'post' && !data.music_metadata
}

Or stop crawling when it reaches the shortcode of a post:

{
  shouldContinue: (data) => data.code != 'codeToStopCrawling'
}

The data argument is the same of an item on the final dataset (see Outputs).

Tips

• The actor is optimized for bulk scraping. Running it with multiple profiles simultaneously is significantly faster than processing one profile at a time.
• To optimize costs, this actor is memory-efficient and can run smoothly with just 256MB to 512MB of memory allocated.

📄 Outputs

Profile

{
	"kind": "profile",
	"input": "zuck",
	"id": "314216",
	"is_private": false,
	"username": "zuck",
	"full_name": "Mark Zuckerberg",
	"biography": "",
	"bio_links": [],
	"followers": 15534658,
	"following": 610,
	"profile_pic": "https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/...",
	"raw_data": {...}
}

Reel

{
	"kind": "post",
	"id": "3548364142010150900_314216",
	"code": "DE-UmMaP6_0",
	"post_type": "clips",
	"owner_id": "314216",
	"taken_at": 1737218208,
	"caption": "Send it",
	"play_count": 4456434,
	"comment_count": 7776,
	"like_count": 134906,
	"has_privately_liked": false,
	"thumbnail_url": "https://instagram.fagc3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/...",
	"duration": 19.945,
	"video_versions": [
		{
			"height": 852,
			"type": 101,
			"url": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/...",
			"width": 480
		},
		{
			"height": 852,
			"type": 103,
			"url": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/...",
			"width": 480
		},
		{
			"height": 852,
			"type": 102,
			"url": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/...",
			"width": 480
		}
	],
	"raw_data": {...}
}

Post

{
	"kind": "post",
	"input": "DFNkPgRROOS",
	"id": "3552655076181205906",
	"code": "DFNkPgRROOS",
	"post_type": "post",
	"owner_id": "314216",
	"taken_at": 1737730421,
	"caption": "Grateful to train with you @marcelogarciajiujitsu. Good luck and have fun vs Imanari today!",
	"like_count": 249896,
	"comment_count": 4627,
	"thumbnail_url": "https://scontent-lga3-2.cdninstagram.com/...",
	"raw_data": {..}
}

📃 Changelog

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v1.1.0

• ✨ Added ability to filter reels by date range
• 🔧 Fixed timeout issues during scraping
• 🔧 Improved handling of restricted Instagram accounts

v1.0.0

• ✨ Added support for scraping individual Reels and posts via URL or code
• ✨ Introduced new include_raw_data option to control raw data inclusion in results
• ✨ Added custom JavaScript functions for post/profile filtering and crawl control
• ✨ Added support for Instagram profile URLs as input
• 🏎️ Optimized crawler performance for faster scraping
• 🔧 Enhanced logging functionality

v0.1

• Initial release

❓ FAQ

Can I export the scraped data to Excel?

Sure! Apify allows you to download the results as an Excel spreadsheet. You can also download in CSV, JSON, XML, HTML, JSONL and RSS.

I just found a bug! Can you fix it?

Oh, what a shame! Please create an Issue, so I can evaluate what happened.

Can you implement X feature?

Of course! You can use the Issues tab to suggest new features.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor scrapes public data from Instagram pages. Features are susceptible to changes made by Meta.

⛓️‍💥 Known issues

• Currently, it is not possible to scrape private or age-restricted accounts, since those are not public.

👀 See also

• TikTok Scraper: Another very efficient crawler for scraping TikTok Profiles and their videos.