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

• profiles: A list of Instagram usernames or URLs to scrape.
• reels_count: Define the target number of reels/posts to fetch per profile (default: 12).
• target: Choose what to scrape:
  • all — Profiles and reels
  • all_with_posts — Profiles, reels, and posts
  • profiles_only — Profiles only
  • reels_only — Reels only
  • posts_only — Posts only
  • reels_and_posts_only — Reels and posts (skips profile data)
• post_urls: Scrape individual Instagram posts or reels using their URL or shortcode.
• skip_pinned: When true, pinned posts/reels are excluded from results (default: false).
• beginDate: Only scrape posts/reels created after this date. Supports absolute (YYYY-MM-DD) and relative (7 days, 2 weeks, 1 month, 1 year) formats.
• endDate: Only scrape posts/reels created before this date. Supports the same formats as beginDate.
• include_raw_data: Include raw data collected from Instagram in the final results. Disable to reduce dataset size (default: true).
• maxConcurrency: Maximum number of concurrent requests. Use this to control load and avoid blocks (default: 200, min: 1, max: 1000).
• proxyConfiguration: Proxy settings for requests. Defaults to Apify Residential proxy for better reliability.

Example:

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

{
  "profiles": [
    "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/...",
	"profile_url": "https://www.instagram.com/zuck/",
	"raw_data": {...}
}

Reel

{
	"kind": "post",
	"id": "3548364142010150900_314216",
	"code": "DE-UmMaP6_0",
	"post_type": "reel",
	"post_url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DE-UmMaP6_0",
	"owner_id": "314216",
	"is_pinned": false,
	"taken_at": 1737218208,
	"taken_at_formatted": "2025-01-18T12:36:48.000Z",
	"caption": "Send it",
	"hashtags": [],
	"play_count": 4456434,
	"comment_count": 7776,
	"like_count": 134906,
	"has_privately_liked": false,
	"thumbnail_url": "https://instagram.fagc3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/...",
	"video_url": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/...",
	"duration": 19.945,
	"music_metadata": {...},
	"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",
	"post_url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DFNkPgRROOS",
	"owner_id": "314216",
	"is_pinned": false,
	"taken_at": 1737730421,
	"taken_at_formatted": "2025-01-24T14:53:41.000Z",
	"caption": "Grateful to train with you @marcelogarciajiujitsu. Good luck and have fun vs Imanari today!",
	"hashtags": [],
	"like_count": 249896,
	"comment_count": 4627,
	"thumbnail_url": "https://scontent-lga3-2.cdninstagram.com/...",
	"image_url": "https://scontent-lga3-2.cdninstagram.com/...",
	"raw_data": {..}
}

Note: If scraping fails for an item (e.g., private/restricted account or deleted post), the output will include an error field describing the issue instead of the regular data.

📃 Changelog

Do you have a feature suggestion? Create an issue and let me know!

v1.2.0

• ✨ Added support to scrape all the posts (including Reels) of a profile
• ✨ Added more fields to the output dataset
• 🔧 Fixed date range filtering for pinned posts

v1.1.0

• ✨ Added proxy settings
• ✨ Added date range filtering for scraping reels
• ✨ Added configurable maximum concurrency limit for scraping requests
• ✨ Added an option to skip pinned reels
• 🔧 Fixed timeout issues during scraping
• 🔧 Improved handling of restricted Instagram accounts
• ⚡ Optimized concurrency and memory usage

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

• Instagram Profile Monitor: Track Instagram profiles over time and monitor growth trends with historical data analysis and beautiful visualizations. Perfect for tracking competitors, influencers, or your own profile's performance.