Scrape and download Instagram posts, profiles, places, hashtags, photos, and comments. Supports search queries and URL lists. Download your data as HTML table, JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and RSS feed.

Below you can provide search query which will be used to search Instagram for profiles, hashtags or places. Alternatively you can provide direct page URLs. Then on each page you can scrape page details, posts or comments. Important: Proxy is required to use this solution

Set number of cookies that are used per one concurrent browser. (e.g. if set to 3 and set 6 sets of loginCookies, then it will run with concurrency 2 so each browser can choose randomly from three sets of cookies.)

Concurrency

Any data that you want to have available inside the Extend Output/Scraper Function

Custom data

If you already have URL(s) of page(s) you wish to scrape, you can set them here. This field is optional, but this field or 'Search' must be provided. Location URLs scroll only with login.

Direct Instagram page URLs

If this feature is used, then for each post the solution will attempt to query additional details about it's owner. This will drastically slow down the crawling speed and increase the chance of an account ban if credentials are provided.

Features in this section are highly experimental, can result in a ban of the account if logged in and might cause the solution to fail.

Query post owner

Add or remove properties on the output object or omit the output returning null

You can change the output of the items for your dataset here, or add additional behavior on the scraper.

Extend Output Function

Advanced function that allows you to extend the default scraper functionality, allowing you to manually perform actions on the page

Extend Scraper Function

If this limit is set above 0, then the solution will attempt to find users who the profile owner is followed by.

Get profile followed by

If this limit is set above 0, then the solution will attempt to find users who the profile owner is following.

Get profile following

If this feature is used, then for each user detail property has_public_story from xhr request is parsed.

Include Has Stories

If this limit is set above 0, then the solution will attempt to load additional details about users who liked the post.

Features that require login. If limits in this section are set above 0, then when the solution enters a page, it attempts to load the specified items until the limit is reached. 

Get post likes

If you want to sign in to Instagram to have access to more data than on anonymous profile, but do not wish to have your credentials in input, then you can use your cookies.

Instagram limits access to certain data (likes, post user data, followers and others) if a user is anonymous. You can provide your cookies here (copied from chrome plugin like 'EditThisCookie' to use a normal account. Do not use your own cookies here and rather create a new temporary account. When cookies are used, the run is limited to concurrency 1 and one session, so that the account does not get banned too soon.

Cookies

Password for IG account. You will have to fill in code, that you receive to email connected to IG account.

Login Password

Login for IG account. You will have to fill in code, that you receive to email connected to IG account.

Login Username

Max number of allowed instances running in parallel. More instances need more memory!

Max Concurrency

Setting this number too high might get your account blocked faster

Max error count cookies

How many times a page will be retried in case of being blocked or other errors.

Max request retries

Proxy is required to run this actor! Either use Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy, or provide your own proxy servers. Non-RESIDENTIAL proxy groups usually don't work.

Proxy configuration

How many posts or comments to scrape from each Instagram URL or found page, ignored when "Details" type is specified. Notice that if you use search via hashtags or place, each found page will have this limit separately. You can limit searchLimit to reduce the number of total results.

Max items

What to scrape from each Instagram page URL or search result.  You need to provide correct parent pages, e.g. comments can be scraped only from posts, not from profiles.

What to scrape from each page.

Scrapes post from the current date until it reaches a post older than a provided date. The date should be in format YYYY-MM-DD. By default scrapes all posts.

Scrape posts until date

How many seconds it will wait every 100 posts/comments when scrolling. If you scrape more than 1000 items, it is important to slow down to not get blocked. The seconds are randomized a bit. If you get blocked anyway, try to increase this number.

Scroll wait seconds

Here you can provide a search query which will be used to search Instagram for profiles, hashtags or places. This field is optional, but this field or 'Direct Instagram page URLs' must be provided

Search

How many search results (eq. pages) should be processed.

Search results limit

What type of pages to search (you can search hashtags, profiles and places)

Search type

Enable stealth in case of increased blocking

Use stealth

Input schema for Instagram scraper

instagram-scraper

Scrape and download Instagram posts, profiles, places, hashtags, photos, and comments. Supports search and URL lists. Go beyond official Instagram API.

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