Instagram Reposts Scraper

Every post an Instagram account has reshared to its profile, with the original author attached. It answers a question a normal post scraper cannot: not what an account publishes, but what it amplifies, and whose work it picked up.

No login, no cookies, no browser.

Why Use This Scraper?

• The original author, not a copy. Each row describes the post as its creator made it. repostedBy is the account you asked about; every other field belongs to whoever actually posted it.
• Reach before the reshare. repostCount is Instagram's own total of how many accounts have reshared that post, so you can see whether an account is spotting things early or amplifying what is already everywhere.
• Partner and creator discovery. The accounts a brand reshares are its ambassadors, its stockists, and the creators it already has a relationship with.
• An account that never reshares says so. Resharing is opt-in behaviour and plenty of accounts never do it. That returns a clean, complete run rather than a failure.

How It Works

1. Each handle is normalised — bare names, @handles and profile URLs all work — and deduplicated.
2. One lookup resolves the handle to its numeric account id.
3. The reshare feed is walked page by page with a cursor, deduplicated by post id, until the cap or the end of the feed.

Private accounts are reported as such rather than attempted: Instagram does not serve their reshares publicly.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
usernames	array	Yes	—	Accounts whose reshares you want. Handles, @handles or profile URLs.
maxRepostsPerUser	integer	No	unlimited	Cap on reshared posts per account.

Example input

{
    "usernames": ["9gag", "@natgeo", "https://www.instagram.com/instagram/"],
    "maxRepostsPerUser": 50
}

Output

One row per reshared post:

{
    "repostedBy": "natgeo",
    "repostedByUserId": "787132",
    "postUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcuGp5OClAQ/",
    "shortCode": "DcuGp5OClAQ",
    "postId": "3976187338433532695",
    "postType": "reel",
    "takenAt": "2026-08-26T14:02:11.000Z",
    "caption": "…",
    "likeCount": 226691,
    "commentCount": 903,
    "playCount": 4120553,
    "repostCount": 4116,
    "imageUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/...",
    "videoUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/...",
    "originalAuthor": "lorisamuelsmom",
    "originalAuthorId": "1674267312",
    "originalAuthorFullName": "Lori Samuels",
    "originalAuthorIsVerified": false,
    "originalAuthorUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/lorisamuelsmom/",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-03T21:10:00.000Z"
}

Key fields

Field	What it is
repostedBy	The account you asked about — the one doing the resharing.
originalAuthor	The account that made the post. Often a much smaller creator than the one resharing.
repostCount	Instagram's own count of how many accounts have reshared this post in total.
postType	photo, video, carousel or reel.

Error rows

An account the run could not answer for comes back as { repostedBy, error, message } and is never charged:

error	Meaning
invalid_username	The input is not a handle or a profile URL.
user_not_found	Instagram has no public account with that handle.
private_account	The account is private; Instagram does not serve its reshares publicly.

Pricing

Pay per event. Accounts that do not exist, are private, or have never reshared anything are never charged.

Event	When it fires	Free tier	Diamond tier
Reshared post	One reshared post delivered	$0.003	$0.0021
Actor start	Once per run, per GB of memory	$0.005	$0.005

A 1,000-post run costs about $3 on the free tier and $2.10 at Diamond.

What Makes This Richer Than the Competition

Capability	Other repost scrapers	This actor
The reshared posts	Yes	Yes
Original author's handle and id	Partial	Always, with full name and verified flag
Instagram's own total reshare count	No	repostCount on every row
Post type told apart	Partial	photo, video, carousel, reel
Timestamps on this feed	Often null	Read from the field Instagram actually uses here
Private accounts	Silent empty result	Named error row
Price per post	$0.007	$0.003

The timestamp point is not a detail. This feed leaves the ordinary taken_at null and puts the real value elsewhere, so a scraper reading the obvious field returns no dates at all.

Notes & Limitations

• Resharing is opt-in. Many accounts, including large ones, have never reshared anything and legitimately return nothing.
• The feed is Instagram's, and it goes back as far as Instagram serves it. There is no way to request a date range.
• videoUrl and imageUrl are Instagram CDN links and expire. Download what you need during or shortly after the run.

FAQ

Does this return posts the account made itself?

No. Only posts it reshared from other accounts. For an account's own posts, use a profile or post scraper.

Why did a big account return nothing?

Because it has never reshared anything. @nasa is one example: it publishes constantly and reshares nothing.

Can I see who reshared a specific post?

No. Instagram publishes the reshare count for a post but not the list of accounts behind it. This actor works the other direction: from an account to what it reshared.

🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Input: { "usernames": ["9gag"], "maxRepostsPerUser": 50 }

Output: one row per reshared post — repostedBy, repostedByUserId, postUrl, shortCode, postId, postType, takenAt, caption, likeCount, commentCount, playCount, repostCount, imageUrl, videoUrl, originalAuthor, originalAuthorId, originalAuthorFullName, originalAuthorIsVerified, originalAuthorUrl, scrapedAt. Unanswerable accounts return { repostedBy, error, message }.

Notes for agents: an empty result for a valid public account means it has never reshared, not that the scrape failed; media URLs expire; repostCount describes the post, not this account's activity.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This scraper collects only data Instagram publishes publicly, without logging in and without accessing private content. Use it in line with Instagram's terms and with the data-protection law that applies to you. You are responsible for how you use what it returns.

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