🎬 Instagram Reel Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

🚀 Collect Instagram Reels data from any public profile - fast, reliable, and no login required.

Extract video URLs, view counts, likes, comments, captions, music info, hashtags, and more from Instagram Reels. Perfect for social media managers, marketers, researchers, and content creators who need Instagram Reel data at scale.

Target Audience: Social media managers, digital marketers, content creators, researchers, and brand analysts. Primary Use Cases: Content analysis, competitor research, influencer marketing, trend tracking, and social media monitoring.

📊 What Does Instagram Reel Scraper Do?

This tool collects Reel data from any public Instagram profile, supporting both bulk profile scraping and individual reel URLs. It delivers:

• 📹 Video URL - Direct download link to the reel video
• 👁️ View count - Total number of plays
• ❤️ Like count - Number of likes
• 💬 Comment count - Total comments, plus top comments with text and usernames
• 📝 Caption - Full caption text with hashtags and mentions extracted
• 🎵 Music info - Song title, artist name, and audio type (licensed music or original sound)
• ⏱️ Duration - Video length in seconds
• 🖼️ Thumbnail - High-resolution thumbnail image URL
• 📅 Timestamp - When the reel was published
• 👤 Username - Profile that posted the reel

Business Value: Get structured Instagram Reel data for content strategy, competitor analysis, and influencer evaluation - without manual scrolling or screenshots.

⚡ Key Features

• ✅ No login required - works with public profiles only
• ✅ Fast extraction - 50 reels in ~14 seconds (without comments)
• ✅ Comments included - Extract up to 15 top comments per reel
• ✅ Date filtering - Only get reels newer than a specific date
• ✅ Per-profile limits - Control how many reels per profile
• ✅ Skip pinned reels - Get chronologically accurate results
• ✅ Multiple profiles - Scrape several accounts in one run
• ✅ Direct reel URLs - Paste individual reel links

🔧 Input

To start collecting Instagram Reels, fill in the input form with:

• urls - Instagram usernames, profile URLs, or direct reel URLs (e.g. natgeo, @nasa, https://www.instagram.com/reel/ABC123/)
• maxItems - Maximum total reels to collect
• maxReelsPerProfile - Limit reels per profile (optional)
• newerThan - Only collect reels published after this date (e.g. 2024-01-01 or 30 days)
• skipPinnedReels - Skip pinned reels for chronological accuracy
• commentsPerReel - Number of top comments to extract per reel (0 for fastest extraction)

Here's an example input configuration:

{
    "urls": ["natgeo", "nasa"],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "maxReelsPerProfile": 50,
    "newerThan": "30 days",
    "commentsPerReel": 5
}

📊 Output

After the scraper finishes, you'll get a dataset with all the reel data. You can download results as Excel, CSV, JSON, or HTML.

Here's an example of scraped Instagram Reel data:

{
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://instagram.com/...",
    "shortcode": "DWE8quOksli",
    "reelUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWE8quOksli/",
    "username": "instagram",
    "caption": "trust the process 📄✂️ #InTheMoment Video by @manabu_kosaka",
    "viewCount": 31750323,
    "likeCount": 110747,
    "commentCount": 2732,
    "duration": 20.64,
    "videoUrl": "https://instagram.com/.../video.mp4",
    "musicTitle": "Original audio",
    "musicArtist": "manabu_kosaka",
    "audioType": "original_sounds",
    "hashtags": ["InTheMoment"],
    "mentions": ["manabu_kosaka"],
    "timestamp": "2026-03-19T19:12:56.000Z",
    "comments": [
        {
            "text": "I'm gonna scream",
            "username": "madame.indigo",
            "isVerified": false,
            "replyCount": 2,
            "timestamp": "2026-03-19T19:14:56.000Z"
        }
    ]
}

Download Options: CSV, Excel, JSON, or HTML formats for easy analysis in your favorite tools.

🎯 Why Choose Instagram Reel Scraper?

• 🚀 Blazing fast - Collect 50 reels in under 15 seconds, 1000+ reels in under 4 minutes
• 🔒 No login needed - No Instagram account or credentials required
• 💬 Comments included - Get top comments with each reel, no extra cost
• 🎵 Music data - Know what songs and sounds are trending
• 📅 Smart filtering - Date range and pinned reel filters for precise data
• ⚡ Parallel processing - Multiple profiles scraped simultaneously

Time Savings: What would take hours of manual scrolling and copy-pasting takes seconds with this tool.

📋 How to Use

1. Sign Up: Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Scraper: Visit the Instagram Reel Scraper page on Apify
3. Add Profiles: Enter Instagram usernames or reel URLs
4. Set Limits: Choose how many reels and comments you want
5. Run It: Click "Start" and let it collect your data
6. Download Data: Get your results in the "Dataset" tab as CSV, Excel, or JSON

Total Time: About 30 seconds to set up, then 15-60 seconds per 50 reels. No Technical Skills Required: Everything is point-and-click.

💼 Business Use Cases

Social Media Managers:

• Track competitor reel performance and engagement rates
• Monitor trending content in your industry
• Analyze what types of reels drive the most engagement

Digital Marketers:

• Research influencer content for partnership decisions
• Identify trending hashtags and audio tracks
• Build content calendars based on successful reel formats

Brand Analysts:

• Monitor brand mentions across Instagram Reels
• Track campaign performance metrics
• Analyze audience engagement patterns

Content Creators:

• Study what works for top creators in your niche
• Find trending music and audio for your reels
• Benchmark your performance against competitors

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Instagram Reel Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Instagram Reel Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set 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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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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⚠️ Limitations

• View counts for individual reel URLs - When scraping a single reel by URL (not from a profile), view counts and duration may not be available. This is because Instagram's public page doesn't expose these fields. Profile-based scraping returns full data including views and duration.
• Comments - Up to ~15 top comments per reel are available from the public page. For more comments, a logged-in session would be needed.
• Private profiles - Only public profiles can be scraped. Private profiles will be skipped with a warning.

🔌 Integrate Instagram Reel Scraper with any app

Instagram Reel Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform.

These include:

• Make
• Zapier
• Slack
• Airbyte
• GitHub
• Google Drive
• and much more.

Alternatively, you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever the scraper successfully finishes a run.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Instagram Reel Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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