Instagram Profile Scraper - Posts, Reels, Captions, Views

Instagram Profile Scraper — Posts, Reels, Captions, Views

Scrape the latest posts and reels of any Instagram profile: caption, post URL, comment count, video views and duration, music, mentions, location, media type and date. Paste usernames or profile URLs; export to JSON, CSV or Excel or use the API. No login.

Price: $6 per 1,000 posts ($0.006 per post). The first 10 results of every run are free.

In short: what you give, what you get, what it costs

You give	Instagram usernames or profile links
We do	Read the latest posts and reels of each public profile
You get	One row per post: caption, link, comments, video views and length, music, mentions, place, type and date, plus every field the supplier returns (source_data)
It costs	$6 per 1,000 posts, no start fee. From 16 November 2026: +$0.001 per run. Optional scheduled monitoring: +$0.08 per check (one-off runs never pay it). Apify also bills the supplier Actor apify/instagram-scraper that this robot runs for you, at its own price (about $2.70 per 1,000 results). The first 10 results of every run are free of this robot's fee.
It does not	Sign in, use your account, or read private content

A real result row is shown further down this page.

Free tier — 10 results free on every run

The free results waive this Actor's own fee; the source Actor (apify/instagram-scraper) still bills its own price for every row it returns.

The first 10 results of every run are free, on every run you ever make — not a one-off trial. Run it on your own subjects and see the real output before you are billed for a single result.

One guard: the free allowance never covers more than half of a run, so a run returning 6 results gets 3 free. That keeps the offer sustainable.

What it does

Run it once and get the full, current data as clean rows you can export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull through the API. Need only fresh data? Turn on monitorEnabled and schedule it: every later run returns only what is new or changed since the previous one, so you never re-download or re-pay for the same rows.

Every post also carries its author's profile card (columns starting with profile_): full name, bio, external link, followers, following, number of posts, verified, private, business category, business e-mail, phone and address when public, engagement rate, average and median likes, average comments, posts per week, date of the last post, and a follower tier. The leader sells the profile card without the posts' details; here you get both in one row.

Compared with apify/instagram-profile-scraper

Read on the Store on 2026-10-23 (Instagram Profile Scraper). Where it does better, this section says so.

• Data source: this Actor runs apify/instagram-scraper for the posts and dami_studio/instagram-profile-scraper for the profile card, then cleans and checks every row.
• More in each row: the posts (caption, media, likes, comments, music, tagged accounts) and the profile card with engagement rate and posting rhythm, which apify/instagram-profile-scraper does not compute.
• This Actor's fee is free on the first results of every run, and a hard cost cap (maxTotalChargeUsd) limits it.
• Price: about $8.7 per 1,000 in total here ($6 for this Actor + $2.7 for apify/instagram-scraper), $2.6 at apify/instagram-profile-scraper.

Why this scraper

1. Try before you pay. The first 10 results of every run are free, on every run.
2. Pay only for data delivered. Failed sources and failed inputs are never billed.
3. Cost cap on this Actor's fee. Set maxTotalChargeUsd to cap this Actor's own fee; the supplier Actor is capped separately on every call, at its own price.
4. Only-new mode. With monitorEnabled on a schedule, you get just the new or changed rows, plus a spike signal when volume suddenly jumps.
5. Clean, normalized rows with the same field names every run, plus a RUN_SUMMARY.json — ready for spreadsheets, databases, n8n/Make/Zapier and AI agents (MCP).

Example input

{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/nike/"
  ],
  "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1.0
}

This returns the full current data right away. To receive only what is new on a schedule, add "monitorEnabled": true: the first monitored run stores a free baseline, later runs return only new or changed rows. Pin a monitorId to keep separate targets from sharing state.

Output

Each row is one post from the profile. A real row from a run on Apify (long texts are cut here and people's names hidden; your dataset has them in full):

A real row from this Actor's latest run on Apify (2026-10-26; long texts are cut and people's names hidden here, your dataset has them in full):

{
  "profile_fullName": "(hidden here)",
  "profile_biography": "Just Do It.",
  "profile_externalUrl": "http://empli.fi/nike",
  "profile_followersCount": 290896326,
  "profile_followsCount": 266,
  "profile_postsCount": 1675,
  "profile_verified": true,
  "profile_private": false,
  "profile_isBusinessAccount": true,
  "profile_accountType": "business",
  "profile_businessAddress": {
    "streetAddress": "One Bowerman Dr",
    "cityName": "Beaverton, Oregon",
    "zipCode": "97005",
    "latitude": 45.5076448,
    "longitude": -122.8269159
  },
  "profile_profilePicUrlHD": "(hidden here)",
  "profile_highlightReelCount": 5,
  "profile_joinedRecently": false,
  "profile_engagement_engagementRate": 0.1349,
  "profile_engagement_avgLikes": 389964.42,
  "profile_engagement_medianLikes": 75773,
  "profile_engagement_avgComments": 2496.25,
  "profile_engagement_postsPerWeek": 2.21,
  "profile_engagement_lastPostAt": "2026-10-23T14:00:42.000Z",
  "profile_engagement_activeLast30Days": true,
  "profile_signals_followerTier": "celebrity",
  "profile_signals_hasContactInfo": false,
  "record_id": "4008651950882420385",
  "query_id": "https://www.instagram.com/nike/",
  "title": "Not everyone fits in.\n\nRaffle opens tomorrow at 7AM PST.\n\nhttps://yachty.shop\n\ndir. by me and @camhicks_",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/Dehl7Xohfah/",
  "text": "Not everyone fits in.\n\nRaffle opens tomorrow at 7AM PST.\n\nhttps://yachty.shop\n\ndir. by me and @camhicks_",
  "author": "(hidden here)",
  "published_at": "2026-10-15T18:30:48.000Z",
  "score": 192726,
  "type": "Video",
  "shortCode": "Dehl7Xohfah",
  "mentions": "(hidden here)",
  "commentsCount": 898,
  "firstComment": "These joints is fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥",
  "dimensionsHeight": 2144,
  "dimensionsWidth": 1206,
  "originalHeight": 1920,
  "originalWidth": 1080,
  "displayUrl": "https://scontent-lhr6-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/849058117_18646039378015415_5013026744453848870_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_cat...",
  "videoUrl": "https://scontent-lhr11-1.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t2/f2/m86/AQPP7uNCFg-wVhnwIOQZvT_UNfJMLJG0tcoswb2KLEr3RXW09LiVsLpRftNXcWIvlc2PlYpFS3H7CanZ...",
  "audioUrl": "https://scontent-lhr6-1.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t2/f2/m78/AQPxfhxcWsAfbo0g66k9kWFCLXRpPf66EsuKxUNKMrKVyeZsVVQE8qKPHF-jXeTKzWBia6M-WyTQP-qNC...",
  "alt": "Video by CONCRETE BOY BOAT^ on October 15, 2026. May be an image of studying, office and text.",
  "ownerId": "(hidden here)",
  "videoDuration": 40.623959,
  "isPinned": false,
  "ownerFullName": "(hidden here)",
  "productType": "clips",
  "isCommentsDisabled": false,
  "videoPlayCount": 11034882,
  "paidPartnership": false,
  "latestComments_count": 14,
  "latestComments_ownerUsername": "(hidden here)",
  "latestComments_text": [
    "These joints is fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥",
    "🔥🔥🔥"
  ],
  "coauthorProducers_count": "(hidden here)",
  "coauthorProducers_username": "(hidden here)",
  "coauthorProducers_full_name": "(hidden here)",
  "taggedUsers_username": "(hidden here)",
  "taggedUsers_full_name": "(hidden here)",
  "musicInfo_song_name": "Original audio",
  "musicInfo_uses_original_audio": true,
  "musicInfo_should_mute_audio": false,
  "musicInfo_audio_id": "28880134654949904"
}

Field	What it holds
text	caption
published_at	post time
type	photo, video or carousel
productType	feed post or reel
commentsCount	comments
videoViewCount	video views
videoPlayCount	video plays
videoDuration	video length in seconds
mentions	accounts mentioned
paidPartnership	marked as paid partnership
isPinned	pinned on the profile
locationName	tagged location
displayUrl	image
url	post link

Each row also keeps the other fields the source returns, so you get everything above and more. In the Output tab, the Overview table shows these columns, readable without any code; export them as CSV, Excel, JSON or HTML.

Every supplier field included

Each row also carries source_data: the full row returned by dami_studio/instagram-profile-scraper, every field it gives, untouched — you never get less than the supplier itself delivers. Our own fields above stay exactly as they are. A row over 200 KB is trimmed and source_data_trimmed lists the fields cut.

How you're charged

• Source Actor charge: this Actor runs apify/instagram-scraper inside your run, and Apify bills that run to your account at apify/instagram-scraper's own price (about $2.7 per 1,000 results, read on 2026-10-23), on top of this Actor's price. Each call to it is capped at $0.50.
• Profile card charge: the card comes from dami_studio/instagram-profile-scraper, billed the same way at its own price ($0.001 per run + $0.69 per 1,000 profiles, read on 2026-10-26): about $0.0017 for one profile.
• Post — $0.006 per post ($6 per 1,000), billed for each post delivered to your dataset. With scheduled monitoring on, only posts that are new since the last check are delivered and billed.
• Scheduled monitoring check ($0.08) — only when you turn on scheduled monitoring (monitorEnabled), once per target per run, and only when the source responded. One-off runs never pay it: you pay only per result.
• One-off runs pay only per result. The monitoring check applies only to scheduled monitoring; every call to the supplier Actor is capped per call, at its own price, and maxTotalChargeUsd caps this Actor's own fee.

How to use it in 3 steps

1. Click Try for free and fill in Instagram profile URLs (profileUrls).
2. Optional: adjust the other fields; every one has a description and a sensible default.
3. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them from the API.

Use cases

• Creator research
• Campaign reporting

Use it from code (API)

Every Apify Actor is an API. Start a run and read the results with one call.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("om_kh/instagram-profile-scraper").call(run_input={"profileUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/nike/"]})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('om_kh/instagram-profile-scraper').call({
    "profileUrls": [
        "https://www.instagram.com/nike/"
    ]
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

One HTTP call (cURL) — runs the Actor and returns the dataset in the same response:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/om_kh~instagram-profile-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"profileUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/nike/"]}'

Integrations: n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets

• n8n — the official Apify node, operation Run Actor and get dataset, Actor om_kh/instagram-profile-scraper.
• Make — Apify › Run an Actor, then Apify › Get Dataset Items.
• Zapier — Apify › Run Actor; map the dataset items into your next step.
• Google Sheets, webhooks, Slack — add an integration from the Integrations tab of this Actor.
• Schedules — run it every hour or day from Schedules in Apify Console.

Use it from an AI agent (MCP and x402)

Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client to Apify's MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com and add this Actor, om_kh/instagram-profile-scraper, as a tool — the agent passes the same JSON as the run input and gets the dataset back.

AI agents that pay with x402 can run it too, without an Apify account: the Actor charges only per result delivered, so an agent pays exactly for what it gets.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Instagram? This Actor collects only publicly available Instagram data and never logs in. You are responsible for how you use it; check Instagram's terms and your local law (GDPR, CCPA) if you store personal data, and ask a lawyer if unsure.

Do I need an account, cookies or an API key? No. You only need an Apify account to run it.

What data do I get? The account's posts and reels with caption, comment count, video views and date. Download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML, or read it from the API.

Am I charged when something fails? No. An input that fails is listed with its reason in the run summary and is never charged.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Create a schedule in Apify Console (hourly, daily, weekly) and connect webhooks, Google Sheets, Slack, n8n, Make or Zapier.

Can I use it from Python, JavaScript or an AI agent? Yes: see the code samples above, or connect AI agents through MCP with the instagram_profile_new_posts tool.

All input fields

The main fields are described above; these are the others the form accepts:

• currentItems (Bring your own items (optional)) — Skip the chained fetch and pass records directly (no upstream call, no fetch fee).

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