Instagram Ingest Scraper
Pricing
from $10.00 / 1,000 results
Downloads an Instagram reel/post/carousel, transcribes any video with faster-whisper, and returns structured metadata + media so an AI agent (via the Apify MCP) can extract text and file it into Notion.
shortcode
Required
Instagram post shortcode extracted from the URL (e.g. DFwqUB9SEc0).
url
Required
Original Instagram URL that was ingested.
type
Required
Detected post type.
caption
Optional
Original post caption text.
posted_at
Optional
Post timestamp as reported by Instagram (raw string from gallery-dl metadata).
likes
Optional
Like count if available, otherwise null.
page_count
Required
Number of downloaded media items (1 for reels/single posts, N for carousels).
has_video
Required
True if any downloaded page is a video (.mp4).
ingested_at
Required
ISO-8601 timestamp of when this Actor run finished the ingest.
pages
Required
Ordered list of downloaded media pages. Each item lives in this run's key-value store under kvsKey.
transcript
Optional
faster-whisper transcript of any video pages. Null if the post has no video or all videos were silent/undecodable.
frames
Required
Reserved for downstream frame processing. This Actor intentionally returns an empty array; use pages[].kvsKey to retrieve the original video and extract frames locally.
