Meta Instagram Scraper API — Profiles, Posts, Reels, Comments
Pricing
from $1.00 / 1,000 profiles
Instagram scraper and unofficial Instagram API: profiles, posts, reels, comments, likes, followers, tagged, stories, highlights, hashtags, locations, search and bio emails — 15 modes. Posts add carousel slides, media sizes, reel audio and alt text. No login for 8 modes. JSON/CSV/Excel from $0.90/1k.
Choose a mode. Modes marked 🔑 need an Instagram login cookie (see the Login section below). Comments and hashtag return their first page without a cookie and go deeper with one; location needs one (Instagram stopped showing location posts to logged-out visitors). Everything else works fully without login. Start here — the mode decides which input fields below are used.
For Scrape Type: all modes except 🔎 Search — users / hashtags / places 🔑. One per line. Accepts what the chosen mode expects:
• Profile modes (details, posts, reels, followers, following, tagged, stories, highlights) → https://www.instagram.com/nasa/, @nasa or just nasa
• Post modes (post detail, comments, likes) → https://www.instagram.com/p/SHORTCODE/ or /reel/SHORTCODE/
• Hashtag mode → https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/nature/ or #nature or nature
• Location mode → https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/212988663/ or the numeric id
Leave empty when using Search mode. Input is matched to the mode automatically: a bare word is read as a hashtag in hashtag mode, a post URL in a profile mode is resolved to its author, and a profile in a post/comment/likes mode falls back to that profile's latest posts. Nothing here can fail the run.
For Scrape Type: 🔎 Search — users / hashtags / places 🔑. Used only in 🔎 Search mode. Free text, e.g. nasa, coffee, new york.
Upper bound of records collected for each URL/username/hashtag/location. Pagination stops automatically when the source is exhausted.
Limit search results to one entity type, or return all.
REQUIRED for: ❤️ likes, 👥 followers, ➡️ following, 🏷️ tagged, 📸 stories, 🌟 highlights, 🔎 search and 📍 location. RECOMMENDED for 💬 comments and #️⃣ hashtag: without a cookie Instagram serves only the first page (the newest comments of a post, the first page of hashtag posts — and it hides its biggest hashtags entirely). Profile, contacts, posts, reels and post-detail modes do NOT need it.
How to get your cookies:
The field also accepts just your sessionid value or a full name=value; name=value cookie string. Stored encrypted.
Cookie expiry: Instagram cookies usually last a few days to a few weeks. If a previously working run reports invalid authentication, re-export fresh cookies and paste them again.
