Instagram Comment Scraper

Extract every comment from any public Instagram post or Reel — no login, no cookies, no accounts, no manual setup. Paste a URL, get structured data back in seconds. A proxy is required: every request rotates through Apify's proxy network so you never get stuck on a single rate-limited IP.

Who this is for

• Marketers measuring how an audience actually reacts to a campaign post, not just the like count.
• Social listening & PR teams tracking sentiment on a competitor's launch or a brand crisis in real time.
• Researchers & analysts building datasets of public engagement for academic or market research.
• Growth & community teams running giveaways who need every entrant's comment exported to pick a winner fairly.
• Sales & lead-gen teams finding warm leads — people who already commented interest on a competitor's or influencer's post.

What you can do with it

Use case	How
Competitor sentiment analysis	Scrape comments on a competitor's product launch post, run them through a sentiment tool, and see what customers actually think — before you launch your own.
Lead generation from niche communities	Pull commenters on a relevant influencer or hashtag post — people already engaged with your niche are warmer leads than a cold list.
Giveaway winner selection	Export every comment on a giveaway post (up to thousands) with usernames and timestamps, so picking a winner is auditable and fair.
Customer feedback mining	Read what people are really saying under your own posts — questions, complaints, and feature requests often live in the comments, not the DMs.
Academic & market research	Build a clean, structured dataset of public engagement for a thesis, report, or trend study.

How it works

You give it one or more Instagram post URLs. It reads the comments straight from Instagram's own comments endpoint — fully logged-out, no accounts behind it — handles pagination automatically, and hands you back clean, structured rows. No scrolling, no copy-pasting, no CAPTCHAs to solve yourself, and nothing to keep alive between runs.

Example output

username	text	like_count	created_at_utc	comment_id
stokrockipiotr	"Do you think it's more about strategy or psychology at that level?"	1	2026-02-13T19:40:15Z	18075189878108617
armandomarketing_	"Game-changing framework on money models! Just analyzed my SaaS pricing using this…"	12	2026-02-12T11:04:30Z	18376493752094933
mekdes2767	"Thanks for sharing"	0	2026-02-08T18:55:12Z	18092197792990797

Every row also includes full_name, profile_pic_url, user_id, and input_url.

Proxy configuration

A proxy is required to run this Actor. Apify Proxy is enabled by default — leave it on unless you're supplying your own proxy URLs. Residential proxies are strongly recommended, since Instagram blocks datacenter IPs far more aggressively. Each request for a page of comments gets a fresh IP from the pool, which is what lets this Actor scrape reliably without cookies, accounts, or session management.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing — you only pay for what you actually get, not for compute time or failed attempts:

• $0.005 per run start
• $0.00075 per comment returned

Example: scraping 1,000 comments costs roughly $0.755 total. There's no subscription and no minimum spend — run it once for a single post or on a schedule across hundreds.

Frequently asked questions

Does this require an Instagram login, cookies, or an API key? No. You provide post URLs and get data back — no account, cookies, or developer credentials needed on your end.

How many comments can it pull from one post? As many as the post has. It paginates through the full comment history chronologically — tested at 300+ comments returning cleanly with zero duplicates.

Do I need to configure my own proxies? A proxy is required, but Apify Proxy is on by default and handles rotation automatically — you don't need to supply your own unless you want to.

Does it return replies to comments? No — this Actor returns top-level comments. Instagram doesn't expose reply-thread data to logged-out requests, a platform limitation we verified directly.

Can I use this for a giveaway winner draw? Yes — this is one of the most common use cases. Set a high max_comments and you'll get a full exportable list with usernames and timestamps.