Instagram Location Posts Scraper | $0.48/1K Posts + $0.004/Page

See what people are sharing from the places that matter to your research. Collect Recent and Top Instagram posts and Reels from selected locations to explore local trends, compare venues or research location-based content.

Export captions, available engagement figures and image/video links for analysis. Start with an Instagram location link or ID; no Instagram login or technical setup required.

Quick start

{
  "locations": ["213385402"],
  "streams": ["recent"],
  "maxPagesPerLocation": 1,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "enrichProfiles": false
}

For both observed memberships, select both streams and allow at least two pages:

{
  "locations": ["https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/213385402/"],
  "streams": ["recent", "top"],
  "maxPagesPerLocation": 2,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "enrichProfiles": true
}

Run in Apify Console, through an integration, or with the Apify CLI:

apify actors call publicsignallabs/instagram-location-posts-scraper \
  -i '{"locations":["213385402"],"streams":["recent"],"maxPagesPerLocation":1,"maxItems":100}' \
  --output-dataset

For API integrations, submit the same JSON body to the Actor's run endpoint, inspect the resulting run's default dataset, and read OUTPUT and AUDIT from its default key-value store. Supply your own Apify authorization securely; never put credentials in input. Review access to your run storage before sharing exports. Private review builds are available only to authorized reviewers.

Example HTTP request body, using the standard Apify Run Actor API:

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/publicsignallabs~instagram-location-posts-scraper/runs
Content-Type: application/json
{"locations":["213385402"],"streams":["recent"],"maxPagesPerLocation":1,"maxItems":100}

Use your client's secure authorization configuration. The run response is asynchronous; wait for its terminal status before exporting the dataset.

Input

Field	Contract
locations	Required, 1–10 strings. Positive numeric IDs or HTTPS instagram.com/www.instagram.com /explore/locations/<id>/ URLs, optionally followed by one location slug. No arbitrary URLs, credentials, query strings or fragments. Equivalent references are merged locally; first input and zero-based index are preserved. No location lookup is performed.
streams	['recent'] by default; select recent, top, or both without duplicates. Order controls first stream and round-robin paging.
maxPagesPerLocation	Integer 1–100, default 1. Combined across selected streams per place per run, not 100 pages per stream. Every attempted page counts toward this work bound.
maxItems	Integer 1–1,000, default 100. Maximum unique (place, media_id) saved rows across the entire run. Same media at two places is two distinct result rows.
enrichProfiles	Boolean, default false. Optional matching owner-profile lookups, deduplicated including failures within the run. Complete profiles already included in extracted rows are reused.
continuationToken	Optional opaque token from OUTPUT; paying runs only. Valid for 15 minutes, bound to normalized ordered locations, selected stream order and enrichment setting. Result/page limits may change.

All input is validated before FREE admission or extraction. Unknown fields, booleans used as integer limits, unsupported references and conflicting FREE options are rejected. Unobserved optional facts remain null or absent, never invented zeros or verified empty lists.

Ordering and bounds

Locations follow first-input order. Each place is buffered before persistence so Top/Recent overlap has one row with merged observed memberships. New media follow first-seen order; ranks are one-based positions in their extraction stream, including unsupported positions and duplicates encountered before them. Only the first observed rank for each stream is retained. Rank reflects an observation, not a stable historical ranking.

Each page is bounded to 1,000 entries and 4 MiB decoded JSON; each place's normalized result buffer is bounded to 1,000 rows and 8 MiB, including added enrichment. Larger responses stop that selected extraction with page_size_limit; a full buffer saves its affordable prefix and reports buffer_limit. Matching additional profiles are bounded to 256 KiB each and an 8 MiB successful-lookup cache; an oversized lookup does not replace basic media. The finite run request bound includes selected pages and at most one optional lookup per saved owner. Internal validation can clamp that bound further. No automatic fallback route or retry is used.

Output and exports

The default dataset contains one row per (source_place.id, media_id). Export JSON for nested assets/context or flatten selected fields in CSV/XLSX. Console output links point to the dataset, run summary and reconciliation audit.

Enrichment required? “No” means the field comes from the location's posts or is calculated locally; missing optional facts remain empty. enrichProfiles=true can add owner details to owner_profile. It does not enrich post engagement, media, the source location or a distinct caption author.

Fields	Meaning and optionality	Enrichment required?
media_id, id, shortcode, url, media_type	Canonical matching feed-media identity, Instagram post/Reel URL and image/video/carousel kind. Required identity/kind failures reject the individual row. id is the shared canonical media identifier.	No.
product_type, published_at, fetched_at	Supplied product kind and publication time; publication may be null. Fetch time uses one fixed UTC observation clock per run.	No.
source_place	Source ID, canonical URL, first normalized input and input index; not a separately enriched place. Embedded content location remains separate.	No; enrichProfiles does not enrich places.
streams, ranks	Observed Recent/Top memberships and first one-based rank in each stream. Unvisited streams are not claimed.	No.
caption, context.hashtags, context.mentions	Supplied caption and supported locally parsed/supplied tags and mentions.	No.
owner, owner_id, owner_username, owner_full_name, owner_profile_pic_url, owner_is_private, owner_is_restricted, owner_is_verified	Already supplied owner facts and privacy flags; optional and not an eligibility filter.	No — these base owner fields are not rewritten by enrichment.
owner_profile	Included owner profile facts; optional matching enrichment can add biography, follower/following/post counts and other available profile details.	Optional — enrichProfiles adds details not already supplied; existing profile facts do not require it.
caption_author_profile	A distinct caption author's profile facts, when supplied with the post.	No; enrichProfiles does not look up a distinct caption author.
enrichment_outcome	not_requested, included, succeeded, not_available, or failed. included means profile facts were already returned or unchanged.	No — reports not_requested when enrichment is off.
coauthors, user_tags, sponsor_tags	Supplied collaborators, tagged users and sponsor tags, when present.	No.
title, accessibility_caption, width, height, duration_seconds, audio	Flat supplied media facts as the matching feed-media contract exposes them; assets keeps the richer per-variant breakdown. Optional and absent when unobserved.	No.
engagement	Nullable likes, comments, plays, views, shares and hidden-count flags. Hidden like/view/play counters remain null. Absence is not zero.	No; enrichment does not recover hidden counts.
assets	Supplied image/video variants with URL/dimensions/type, nullable width/height/duration and supplied audio facts. display_url/video_url are convenient shared canonical best variants.	No.
carousel_items, children	Supplied carousel relationships; carousel_items retains positional rich assets/context and optional child ID.	No.
context	Supplied caption, hashtags, mentions, links/domains, embedded location/locations, sponsors/partnership, supported stickers and referenced reshared media. Unsupported/absent optional structures remain null; this is not exhaustive sticker analysis.	No.
is_private, is_restricted	Record-level flags when actually supplied; retained without filtering.	No.

Illustrative shortened row; values are examples, not a current extraction:

{
  "media_id": "3900000000000000001",
  "id": "3900000000000000001",
  "shortcode": "EXAMPLE1",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/EXAMPLE1/",
  "media_type": "image",
  "published_at": null,
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-01T12:00:00Z",
  "source_place": {"id": "213385402", "url": "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/213385402/", "input": "213385402", "input_index": 0},
  "streams": ["recent", "top"],
  "ranks": {"recent": 3, "top": 1},
  "owner_is_private": true,
  "engagement": {"like_count": null, "comment_count": null, "play_count": null, "view_count": null, "share_count": null, "like_count_hidden": true, "view_count_hidden": true},
  "enrichment_outcome": "not_requested"
}

Asset URLs can be signed or temporary and may expire. They are links, not durable downloaded files. Nested references and carousel children are context within one result, not independent results. No Google reviews, date filtering, custom mapping, private-access promise, historical archive, OCR, transcript, viewer/reach/impression data or durable downloads are offered.

Summary and expected outcomes

OUTPUT contains status, stopReason, deliveredCount, chargedCount, pageChargedCount, profileChargedCount, eventCounts, sources, bufferPeakBytes, and optional continuationToken/FREE admission. Each source records location ID, original input index, completed pages, observed/rejected entries, delivered rows, status and a specific stop reason where needed. AUDIT contains sanitized extraction attempts, response bytes, duration, confirmed event/delivery counts, buffer size and recovery reconciliation; it does not expose raw request or response records.

Valid empty pages and missing/unavailable extraction have distinct successful outcomes. duplicate_only is not a claim that the location is empty. Result/page/spend/request/buffer limits and partial prefixes are successful runs. Mechanical configuration, input, internal invariants and storage/reporting dependency failures retain truthful failure/reconciliation details. A partial accepted write reports only its confirmed prefix; ambiguous writes/charges are not silently retried. Check summary and reconciliation rather than interpreting every successful run as exhaustive collection.

Continuation

Continue by resubmitting the same locations, streams and enrichment setting with the returned token. You can change maxItems and maxPagesPerLocation. A token carries bounded progress, stream cursors, mid-page offsets, an ordered page-identity fingerprint and IDs of confirmed saved results. A newly started unrelated run has no shared history. An unfinished mid-page checkpoint is resumed before another stream page. Previously saved rows are append-only: later observations do not rewrite their memberships.

Mid-page resume performs a new page extraction. The ordered identity fingerprint must match before an offset is used. If the snapshot changed, the run reports successful snapshot_changed, does not skip by a stale offset, and does not issue a continuation for that unsafe checkpoint. This is not a valid-empty response or an immutable historical snapshot. Start a fresh run only if you deliberately want a new observation.

Null cursors terminate streams; repeated cursors stop with repeated_cursor instead of looping. Empty pages with a genuine next cursor can continue. Tokens are not issued on invalid snapshot/repeated-cursor stops, uncertain mutations, exhausted bounded state or FREE runs. Dedup state is capped at 10,000 IDs and encrypted state at 256 KiB; exhausted state reports its limit rather than dropping IDs and duplicating paid rows. Invalid/tampered/expired/mismatched tokens fail before admission/extraction. Do not edit or publish tokens.

When the bounded cursor history or encrypted continuation size is exhausted, stopReason is page_limit; a missing continuation token means that checkpoint cannot be resumed safely.

Pricing

The headline is the result price, not an all-in invoice. Saved posts, completed pages, optional profile enrichment and the automatic start event contribute to the total. For example, 100 saved posts across four pages without enrichment cost $0.06405.

USD Starter event schedule:

Event	Price	Billing boundary
location-media — primary	$0.00048 ($0.48/1K)	Each unique place/media row confirmed saved. Top/Recent overlap at one place is one result; carousel children are included.
location-page	$0.004	Structurally valid completed page, including empty, duplicate-only and individually rejected entries. Unavailable, failed or malformed pages are not charged. A completed mid-page re-extraction is new page work, including when its identity snapshot changed.
profile-enrichment — optional	$0.0055	Successful matching incremental owner lookup delivered with at least one saved row; once per owner per run. No charge for included copied facts, unavailable/failed lookups or unperformed work.
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	Automatic platform start at at most 1 GB; not manually charged.

There is no additional default-dataset-item event and no customer-paid platform-usage fee in this offer. The full bill depends on observed pages and unique enriched owners, not just saved posts. 100 posts, four pages and ten successful unique owner enrichments cost $0.11905. One valid empty page costs $0.00405, including start. Page fees are charged after completed valid work and before result storage. Event capacities and the combined spending allowance are checked before paid work; a spending stop saves only its confirmed affordable prefix. A concurrent limit or exceptional save/charge ambiguity can require explicit reconciliation, not fictional delivered or refunded counts.

Mid-page resume incurs another $0.004 page fee for the completed re-extraction, including when its identity snapshot changed. Previously confirmed saved rows are not charged again within the continuation's dedup scope; a fresh unrelated run has its own result fees. Complete included profiles and oversized profile lookups do not incur an enrichment fee.

FREE demo

Nonpaying accounts may be admitted to five runs per Actor/user/UTC month through atomic author-managed quota storage. Each admitted run selects one location, Recent only, one page, at most ten saved rows, one extraction attempt, no profile enrichment and no continuation. Missing identity/quota configuration or a quota outage fails closed; resurrected/aborted admitted runs cannot claim another slot or replay work. Paying users bypass this monthly demo quota but still obey workload and spending limits. Demo admission is not a promise of a particular invoice: consult the effective Apify Pricing and run billing for any automatic start/event treatment.

Responsible use and support

No affiliation with Instagram or Meta is implied. Follow applicable law, Instagram terms and your organization's privacy policy; avoid publishing personal information or private/restricted content without a lawful basis. Availability and supplied fields can change.

For help, use the Actor's Apify Issues tab and include the run ID plus sanitized expected/actual details. Do not send credentials, cookies, signed asset links, continuation tokens or private contact data.