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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.

Marketing & Media

Set up Instagram Scraper to search Instagram for profiles, hashtags, or places. Or add Instagram URLs you want to scrape directly and extract page details, posts or comments. Important: Residential proxy is required to use this scraper!

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

Enable a more verbose logging to be able to understand what's happening during the scraping.

Debug Log

Add one or more Instagram URLs to scrape. Tip: Location URLs will only scroll if you use an Instagram login.

Add Instagram URLs you want to scrape 

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

Warning: the features in this section are highly experimental, can result in a ban of an Instagram account if logged in, and might cause the scraper 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 to 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 scraper will attempt to find users who follow the profile owner.

Get profile followed by

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

Get profile following

Scrapes post and comments from the current date until it reaches a post older than the provided date. The date should be in YYYY-MM-DD format or relative time, e.g. yesterday. By default it scrapes all posts.

Scrape from date

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

Include Has Stories

Include Tagged posts

If this limit is set above 0, then the scraper 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 scraper 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 so that you will have access to more data than with an anonymous profile, but do not wish to save your credentials in input, then you can use your cookies.

Instagram limits access to certain data (likes, post user data, followers, and other information) if a user is anonymous. You can provide cookies here to log in as a normal Instagram user (you can copy with a Chrome plugin like 'EditThisCookie'). Note that we recommend that you do not use your own Instagram account for this - use a new, temporary Instagram 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

Setting this number too high might get your account blocked faster

Max error count cookies

Select how many times the page will be retried if the scraper is blocked or encounters other errors.

Max request retries

A proxy server is required to run this actor! Either use an Apify residential proxy, or provide your own proxy servers. Datacenter proxies will not work.

Select your proxy here. Use Residential for scrapping without login, but automatic for scraping with login! You can also change the maximum times the browser will retry requests and tell it how long to wait for the page to scroll.

Proxy configuration

How many posts or comments you want to scrape from each Instagram URL or found page. If you set this to 1, you will get a single post from each page. This is ignored when "Details" type is specified. Note that, if you search via hashtags or place, each found page will have this limit applied separately.

Max items 

Decide what you want to scrape from each Instagram page URL or search result. Tip: You need to select the correct parent page based on URL, e.g. comments can only be scraped from posts, not from profiles.

What do you want to scrape from each page? 

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

Use this if you only want to scrape posts or comments from a specific period of time. Note: As the usage of dates means scrolling of the page (without returning any results), it's better to use only recent dates.

Scrape until date

Provide a search query which will be used to search Instagram for profiles, hashtags, or places. This field is optional, but you need to either use this field or provide Instagram URLs.

Search

How many search results (e.g. hashtags, profiles, or pages) should be processed. If you set this to 1, you will just scrape a single search term. If you set it to 3, you will scrape three search terms, and so on.

Search results limit

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

Search type

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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