Instagram Scraper
Pricing
from $1.75 / 1,000 results
Scrape Instagram profiles, posts, reels, comments and hashtags from any mix of profile, post and hashtag URLs, or from a search term. $1.75 per 1,000 results: 35% below the Free plan price of apify/instagram-scraper, one flat rate for every buyer.
Row type
dataType
Optional
profile or post, on those two row shapes and no other. resultsType decides which one a run writes, but an ERROR ROW (one per input that produced nothing) can sit among them and does not carry this key - tell it apart by its error column. COMMENT ROWS DO NOT CARRY IT either: since 2026-09-10 a comment row is exactly apify/instagram-comment-scraper's twelve fields plus any the listing adds, and that reference row has no dataType.
Collected at
collectedAt
Optional
When the snapshot this row came from was taken. Rows are served from a stored snapshot rather than fetched at read time, so this is the honest age of the data and not the time of the run. Profile and post rows only, for the reason given under inputUrl; a comments run logs the snapshot age instead of printing it on every row.
Input URL
inputUrl
Optional
The input line that produced this row, exactly as it was written - a profile URL, a bare handle, a single post URL or a hashtag URL from directUrls, or a line of usernames. Present so a multi-target run can be split back into its targets. Profile rows, post rows and ERROR rows only: since 2026-09-10 a comment row is exactly apify/instagram-comment-scraper's twelve fields plus any the listing adds, and that reference row has no inputUrl - join a comment back to its target through postUrl. An error row always carries it, because an input that produced no data is exactly the row a caller needs to match back to the line they sent.
Search keyword
searchTerm
Optional
The keyword that produced this row, normalised to lower case. ABSENT on every row that came from directUrls or usernames: one run may both name accounts and describe a keyword, and the dataset is flat, so this is what tells a consumer whether the caller asked for a row by name or Instagram ranked it for a word. It has no counterpart in the reference Actors' rows and is an addition rather than a rename.
ID
id
Optional
Instagram's own identifier: the profile id on a profile row, the media id on a post row, the comment id on a comment row (not the commenter's account id, which is owner.id; absent on snapshots collected before 2026-09-04). Always a string - these exceed what a JavaScript number holds exactly, and quoting them is what keeps the last digits.
Username
username
Optional
The handle, without the leading @.
Full name
fullName
Optional
The display name on the profile, which is not the handle and need not be unique.
URL
url
Optional
Canonical instagram.com URL of the profile or post this row describes. Null on an error row whose input never resolved to either - a string that is not an Instagram URL has no canonical form to report.
Verified
verified
Optional
Whether Instagram shows the blue check on this account.
Private account
private
Optional
A private account exposes its header and nothing else; posts and comments will be absent. Named private rather than isPrivate since 2026-09-04, which is the spelling apify/instagram-scraper publishes beside verified.
Business account
isBusinessAccount
Optional
Null when the logged-out profile page did not say, which is not the same as false.
Business category
businessCategoryName
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The self-declared business category, present only on professional accounts. Named businessCategoryName rather than categoryName since 2026-09-04, matching apify/instagram-scraper.
Followers
followersCount
Optional
Followers at the moment of collection. Instagram rounds large figures itself. Absent when the surface did not carry the figure; never 0 in its place.
Following
followsCount
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Accounts this profile follows at the moment of collection. Absent when not carried, as for followersCount.
Posts
postsCount
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The total Instagram declares for the account, which is normally larger than the number of post rows this run produced. Absent when the logged-out header omitted it; it is never replaced by postsInSnapshot.
Posts held
postsInSnapshot
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How many posts the snapshot actually carries. The gap between this and postsCount is what the run did not walk. The averages below use only those of them that carry their counts, which can be fewer.
Average likes
avgLikes
Optional
Computed over the posts in the snapshot, not over the account's whole history.
Average comments
avgComments
Optional
Mean comment count over the posts in this snapshot, not over the account's whole history.
Average video views
avgVideoViews
Optional
Mean view count over the video posts in this snapshot that carry one. Logged out, a profile's own posts normally carry no view count, so this is normally absent.
Engagement rate (%)
engagementRatePct
Optional
Average of likes + comments per post, over the posts carrying both counts, divided by followers, as a percentage rounded to 4 decimals. Null with zero or unknown followers, or no post carrying both counts.
Short code
shortCode
Optional
The token in a post's URL.
Media type
type
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The medium of the post: a single image, a video, or a multi-frame carousel.
Product type
productType
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Instagram's own name for what the post is published as - 'feed' for an ordinary post, 'clips' for a reel, 'igtv' for a long video, 'carousel_container' for a multi-frame post. It is finer-grained than type, which only says image, video or carousel: a reel and a plain video are both 'Video' there and tell apart here. Null when the surface the post came from did not carry it, which is the case for the logged-out profile grid.
Alt text
alt
Optional
The accessibility description of the image - either the one the author typed or, far more often, the one Instagram generated ('Photo by NASA on June 01, 2026. May be an image of one or more people and text'). Useful as a machine-readable hint of what is in the picture when no caption says. Null when the post carries none.
Caption
caption
Optional
The post's caption as written, hashtags and mentions included.
Mentions
mentions
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Accounts mentioned in the caption text with '@', without the '@'. Email addresses are not mentions and are excluded. This is the caption's text; accounts tagged inside the picture are taggedUsers.
[ "nasa", "coffee.roasters"]Published at
timestamp
Optional
ISO 8601 in UTC, ending in Z (2026-08-16T18:01:36.000Z). Absent when the feed carried no date - an unknown date is left out rather than rendered as 1970.
Likes
likesCount
Optional
On a post row, -1 when the account hides its like counts, matching the convention of the other Instagram scrapers. On a comment row, that comment's own likes. Zero means zero.
Likes hidden
likesHidden
Optional
True when likesCount is -1 because the count is hidden rather than because it is unknown.
First comment
firstComment
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The text of the oldest comment held for this post. A PREVIEW OF WHAT WAS COLLECTED, not of what exists: it is null on every run that did not ask for comments, because this column reads the comment bodies already in hand and never walks for more. For the full set, run the comments result type, which writes one row per comment.
Latest comments
latestComments
Optional
Up to fifteen of the newest comments held for this post, newest first, each in the same shape as a row of the comments result type. A PREVIEW, under the same rule as firstComment: null - not [] - on a run that collected no comment bodies, because nothing was walked and 'this post has no comments' is a claim this column is not entitled to make.
Comments held
commentsCollected
Optional
How many comment bodies the snapshot carries for this post. Lower than commentsCount whenever a limit applied.
Video views
videoViewCount
Optional
Views Instagram reports for a video post. Present on videos found by a hashtag search. Logged out, neither a profile's grid nor a post's own page reports views, so reels listed from a profile or opened by URL do not carry it. Absent on images and carousels.
Is video
isVideo
Optional
Whether the post's primary medium is video. Reels are videos.
Display image
displayUrl
Optional
Signed CDN URL of the first image. These expire; mediaExpired says whether this one still resolves.
Video URL
videoUrl
Optional
Signed CDN URL of the video, on video posts only.
All media URLs
images
Optional
Every asset on the post as a signed CDN URL, carousels included, in the order Instagram serves them. A list of STRINGS, which is the shape apify/instagram-scraper writes into a column of this name; it held objects here until 2026-09-04. The per-rendition width, height and video flag moved to mediaAssets rather than being dropped.
[ "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/a1_n.jpg"]Media, measured
mediaAssets
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The same assets as images, in the same order, each as {url, width, height, isVideo}. width and height are present only when the surface the post came from carried dimensions; the logged-out grid does not. No reference scraper publishes a column of this name, which is why the measurements live here instead of inside images.
[ { "url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/a1_n.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1350, "isVideo": false }]Carousel slides
childPosts
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One entry per frame of a carousel, each with its own id, shortCode, type, alt, displayUrl, images, dimensions, likesCount and taggedUsers - a slide can tag accounts the first slide does not. ABSENT, NOT EMPTY, on a post that is not a carousel and on any surface that cannot see inside one: the logged-out profile grid knows a post has several frames without carrying them, and [] there would say the carousel is empty.
Location
locationName
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The place tagged on the post, as Instagram names it. This is the author's own tag, not an inference from the picture, and it is frequently a business rather than a town. Null when the post tags no place or the surface it came from does not carry one.
Location ID
locationId
Optional
Instagram's own identifier for the place in locationName, which is what distinguishes two cafes of the same name. Null under the same conditions.
Location latitude
locationLat
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Latitude of the tagged place, in degrees. No reference scraper publishes a column of this name; it is kept because the payload that carries the place name carries its coordinates beside it at no extra request, and a place that cannot be put on a map is half an answer. Null when the post tags no place, and also when it tags one whose coordinates Instagram withheld.
Location longitude
locationLng
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Longitude of the tagged place, in degrees. No reference scraper publishes a column of this name; it is kept because the payload that carries the place name carries its coordinates beside it at no extra request, and a place that cannot be put on a map is half an answer. Null when the post tags no place, and also when it tags one whose coordinates Instagram withheld.
Tagged in the picture
taggedUsers
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Accounts tagged INSIDE the image, each as {username, id, isVerified, imageIndex, position}. MINIMISED ON PURPOSE: unlike other Instagram scrapers this Actor does not collect the tagged account's display name or profile picture - a tag says which account an image references, which the handle and the id say completely, and a name and a face are personal data about somebody who is not the profile you asked for. 'imageIndex' is which image of a carousel the tag sits on, 0-based; 'position' is Instagram's normalised [x, y], 0-1 on each axis. ABSENT, NOT EMPTY, when the surface the post came from carries no tags for anybody: an empty list means this picture tags nobody, and the two are different answers.
[ { "username": "gucci", "id": "2421050", "isVerified": true, "imageIndex": 0, "position": [ 0.5439, 0.4595 ] }]Width
dimensionsWidth
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Pixel width of the post's own frame - the first image's for a carousel, which is what instagram.com shows. Not the width of the CDN rendition in 'images', which is capped and re-encoded. Absent when the surface the post came from carried no dimensions.
Height
dimensionsHeight
Optional
Pixel height of the post's own frame. Absent when the surface the post came from carried no dimensions.
Original width
originalWidth
Optional
The same measurement as dimensionsWidth, published under the second name apify/instagram-scraper uses for it, so a client written against either column keeps reading. The value comes from Instagram's original_width, which is this column's name-for-name counterpart; both columns are written rather than one being renamed, because rows already collected carry the other spelling.
Original height
originalHeight
Optional
The same measurement as dimensionsHeight, published under the second name apify/instagram-scraper uses for it, so a client written against either column keeps reading. The value comes from Instagram's original_height, which is this column's name-for-name counterpart; both columns are written rather than one being renamed, because rows already collected carry the other spelling.
Media expired
mediaExpired
Optional
True once the signed CDN URLs on this row have passed their expiry and will no longer resolve.
Author
ownerUsername
Optional
On a post row, the account that published it, read off the post - for a collab post that can differ from the profile it was listed from. On a comment row, the account that wrote the comment.
Author ID
ownerId
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Numeric id of the account this row belongs to, as a string. Present when addParentData is on and that account published the post.
Author full name
ownerFullName
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Display name of the account this row belongs to. Present when addParentData is on and that account published the post.
Comment
text
Optional
The comment as written.
Post URL
postUrl
Optional
Permalink of the post this comment sits under.
Comment URL
commentUrl
Optional
Permalink of this comment, in the shape apify/instagram-comment-scraper writes: the post URL, /c/, then the comment id, with no trailing slash. Absent on snapshots collected before 2026-09-04, which carry no comment id to build it from.
Commenter's profile picture
ownerProfilePicUrl
Optional
Same value as owner/profile_pic_url, duplicated here exactly as apify/instagram-comment-scraper duplicates it. A SIGNED URL THAT EXPIRES in 4-5 days: it is a lease on the image, not a copy of it, so fetch it during the run or not at all. Collected since 2026-09-10 (COMPLIANCE.md section 3, the row of that date); null on any snapshot older than that, which means the record predates the field, not that the collection failed.
Replies
repliesCount
Optional
ALWAYS NULL, in this Actor and in apify/instagram-comment-scraper alike. Instagram renders no replies to a logged-out reader and does not count them either: child_comment_count was null on every node measured (217 nodes over three posts, 2026-09-04). A zero here would be an invented measurement.
Reply bodies
replies
Optional
ALWAYS NULL, for the reason repliesCount is: the logged-out comment surface serves top-level comments only. Present because the reference scraper writes the key on every row, so a consumer switching over keeps the column.
Parent comment
parentCommentUrl
Optional
ALWAYS NULL, for the reason replies and repliesCount are: every comment the logged-out surface serves is a top-level one, so none of them has a parent. Present because apify/instagram-comment-scraper writes the key on every row, and a consumer switching over keeps the column rather than having it disappear.
Comment author
owner
Optional
The reference scraper's nested author object, emitted with every one of its keys so a flattened export has the same owner/... columns in both Actors. owner/username, owner/id, owner/profile_pic_url and owner/is_verified carry values - the last three since 2026-09-10, and null on snapshots older than that. full_name, is_mentionable, is_private, profile_pic_id and latest_reel_media are null here and null in apify/instagram-comment-scraper's own output too, so a null there is parity, not a gap.
{ "username": "luv_yazzy", "profile_pic_url": "https://instagram.fmxp2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.2885-19/518868862_1234.jpg", "is_verified": false, "id": "7058325994", "full_name": null, "is_mentionable": null, "is_private": null, "profile_pic_id": null, "latest_reel_media": null}Latest posts
latestPosts
Optional
The account's most recent posts, nested inside its own row rather than written as rows of their own - the shape apify/instagram-profile-scraper publishes. Each entry carries the same post fields this codebase's post rows carry (shortCode, type, caption, hashtags, mentions, timestamp, likesCount, commentsCount, taggedUsers, dimensions and, with includeMediaUrls, the media URLs) minus the two that only mean something on a row of their own, dataType and inputUrl. [] when the snapshot holds no posts, or none newer than onlyPostsNewerThan; a private account is the usual reason - check private and postsInSnapshot before reading it as an account that never posted.
[ { "shortCode": "DCMUrLltVlM", "type": "Image", "caption": "A new view of the Carina Nebula.", "timestamp": "2026-08-30T18:02:11.000Z", "likesCount": 412903, "commentsCount": 1363 }]Error code
error
Optional
Set only on an error row: the machine-readable slug for why this input produced no data. input_refused (the line is not something this Actor collects), collection_failed (Instagram or the network refused this time; a mistyped handle lands here too), collection_timed_out, post_not_found, profile_private and no_posts (the account was read and has no public posts to return), and for a hashtag keyword_not_catalogued, keyword_filtered_out or keyword_not_held. A run whose input could not be run at all writes a single row with an empty inputUrl: invalid_input or nothing_to_collect. It is the same vocabulary the REST surface answers with, so one consumer can switch on both. Error rows are never charged. A run writes one per input it could not collect; an input that was collected and simply matched nothing (a post with no comments, a date cutoff that kept no posts, reels asked of a photo) writes no row at all.
Error description
errorDescription
Optional
Set only on an error row: the sentence a human reads, saying what went wrong and usually what to do instead. Where error is for a program to branch on, this is for a person to act on.
Request error messages
requestErrorMessages
Optional
Set only on an error row: the raw messages collected while this input was being attempted, in order. A list even when there is one, so a consumer reading the first element never has to check the type first. Empty when the input was refused before anything was attempted.
Biography
biography
Optional
The account's bio, as written, newlines included. Absent from a row whose surface carried no bio: a post collected by its own URL names its owner but says nothing else about them, and an empty string there would read as an account that wrote nothing.
Profile picture URL
profilePicUrl
Optional
Signed CDN URL of the account's avatar. It EXPIRES, typically within days, exactly like the post media URLs - what is stored is a pointer, not a copy, and a run that needs the image should fetch it promptly. Absent when the surface carried none.
Link in bio
externalUrl
Optional
The destination of the first link in the account's bio, as the account typed it. Instagram puts the pinned link first, so this is the one the profile leads with. Accounts with several links have them all in externalUrls; accounts with none have neither column.
Link in bio, via Instagram
externalUrlShimmed
Optional
The same destination as externalUrl, but through Instagram's own signed redirector on l.instagram.com. That is what the profile page actually links to, so a consumer reproducing the page wants this one and a consumer following the link wants the other.
Links in bio
externalUrls
Optional
Every link in the account's bio, each as {url, title, lynx_url, link_type} - the shape apify/instagram-profile-scraper publishes. MINIMISED: Instagram sends six more keys per link (pin state, an internal id, a media type, an image, a creation source, an accent colour) and they are dropped at collection, because they style the button rather than describe the destination. ABSENT, NOT EMPTY, when the surface carried no link block at all; an empty list means it did and the account has no links.
Story highlights
highlightReelCount
Optional
How many story highlights the account has published, and ONLY when Instagram's response proved the total. The surface answers with one page of highlights rather than a count, so a number here means that page was the last one. Otherwise the column is absent - a page size published as a count would be a number nobody could tell was a floor.
Comments
commentsCount
Optional
The total Instagram declares for the post. commentsCollected says how many bodies this run actually holds.