📸 Instagram Posts Scraper

🚀 Extract Instagram posts, Reels, and profile data in minutes. Pull from any public account by username, profile URL, or post URL. Filter by media type and date range. No login, no API keys, no Instagram developer approval.

🎁 Paid plan adds

📈 Virality metrics

📝 Caption intelligence

💸 Sponsorship detection

📍 Location coords

The Instagram Posts Scraper collects post data from any public Instagram profile, returning 25 fields per post: caption, hashtags, mentions, like count, comment count, view count, play count, media type, video URL, image URLs, location, tagged users, collaborators, alt text, video duration, and timestamps. Runs support up to 1,000,000 posts on a paid plan.

The Actor accepts three input formats in the same run: usernames (nike), profile URLs (https://instagram.com/nike), and individual post URLs (https://instagram.com/p/ABC123). Filter by media type (image, video, Reel, carousel) and date range (absolute dates, ISO timestamps, or relative like "30 days"). No Instagram account, Graph API credentials, or developer approval needed.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Social media analysts, influencer marketing teams, brand managers, growth hackers, academic researchers, content strategists	Competitor analysis, engagement benchmarking, influencer vetting, hashtag research, content audits, trend tracking

📋 What the Instagram Posts Scraper does

Three input formats with media and date filters:

• 👤 Username mode. Enter usernames like nike or cristiano to pull their recent posts.
• 🔗 URL mode. Paste profile URLs (instagram.com/nike) or individual post URLs (instagram.com/p/ABC123).
• 🎬 Media type filter. Restrict to image, video, reel, or carousel posts only.
• 📅 Date filter. Limit results by absolute dates (2025-01-01), ISO timestamps, or relative periods (30 days, 3 months, 1 year).

Each post record includes caption, parsed hashtag and mention arrays, engagement metrics (likes, comments, views, plays), media type and product type, video URL, all image URLs, carousel count, location, tagged users, collaborators, alt text, video duration, post URL, shortcode, and timestamps.

💡 Why it matters: the official Instagram Graph API only returns data for accounts you own or manage. This Actor reads the same public data any visitor sees and returns it as structured JSON, CSV, or Excel, making competitor analysis, influencer vetting, and hashtag research practical at scale.

⚠️ Good to Know: residential proxies are recommended for runs over 50 posts. Instagram rate-limits aggressively on datacenter IPs. The proxy configuration is pre-filled with recommended settings.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Instagram Posts Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Add usernames, profile URLs, or post URLs. Set media type filter, date range, and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more social media scrapers.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram, Meta Platforms, Inc., or any of their subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available post data is collected.

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