Instagram Scraper

One actor for public Instagram data: posts, reels, comments and mentions, or the details of profiles, hashtags and places. Paste URLs, or search for hashtags, profiles or places.

$0.30 per 1,000 posts. Comments $0.40 per 1,000.

What it's for

• Competitor and creator tracking: every new post with its engagement, on a schedule with Only posts newer than set to 1 day.
• Brand monitoring: posts that tag a brand (Mentions), posts under its hashtags, comments on its campaigns.
• Local research: what people post from a venue, a store or a neighborhood (place URLs).
• Data for AI agents and dashboards: clean JSON, CSV or Excel, or straight from the API.

Input

Field	What it does
directUrls	Profile, post, reel, hashtag or place URLs, one per line
resultsType	posts, reels, comments, mentions or details
resultsLimit	Results per URL (default 20)
onlyPostsNewerThan	A date like 2026-09-01, or a period like 7 days
skipPinnedPosts	Leave out pinned posts, which stay on top however old they are
search	Instead of URLs: words to search for, separated by commas
searchType	hashtag, profile or place
searchLimit	Hashtags, profiles or places taken from each search (default 10)

What each URL gives:

URL	posts	reels	comments	mentions	details
Profile instagram.com/natgeo/ (or its ID)	latest posts	Reels tab	–	posts it's tagged in	profile
Post or reel instagram.com/p/…	the post	the reel	its comments	–	the post
Hashtag instagram.com/explore/tags/travel/	latest posts	top reels	–	–	post count and related hashtags
Place instagram.com/explore/locations/218622660/	latest posts	latest reels	–	–	address, phone, website, coordinates

A search finds hashtags, profiles or places, and each one found is read as if its URL had been pasted: its posts, or its details.

Coming from Apify's Instagram Scraper? These are its input field names, and the output keeps its fields too (shortCode, likesCount, videoPlayCount, followersCount…). Saved inputs, API calls and integrations keep working.

Output

Posts, reels and mentions, one row each:

{
  "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/humansofny/",
  "id": "3741054891297971261",
  "type": "Video",
  "shortCode": "DPq5ZpJDZw9",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DPq5ZpJDZw9/",
  "caption": "Dear New York closes on October 19th. It’s been the honor and joy of my life...",
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "timestamp": "2025-10-11T13:27:07.000Z",
  "likesCount": 107909,
  "commentsCount": 977,
  "videoPlayCount": 2313520,
  "videoDuration": 45.416,
  "sharesCount": 22078,
  "savesCount": 5923,
  "displayUrl": "https://instagram.fsjc1-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.71878-15/...",
  "videoUrl": "https://instagram.fsjc1-4.fna.fbcdn.net/o1/v/t2/f2/m86/...",
  "productType": "clips",
  "isPinned": true,
  "paidPartnership": false,
  "musicInfo": { "artist_name": "humansofny", "song_name": "Original audio", "uses_original_audio": true, "audio_id": "803657055406477" },
  "locationName": null,
  "ownerUsername": "humansofny",
  "ownerFullName": "Humans of New York"
}

Carousels ("type": "Sidecar") list each slide in childPosts. Tagged users, collaborators and sponsors come with each post. likesCount is null when the author hides likes.

Comments:

{
  "postUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DPq5ZpJDZw9/",
  "commentUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DPq5ZpJDZw9/c/18078654422718250/",
  "id": "18078654422718250",
  "text": "Really cool!",
  "ownerUsername": "xaubetter",
  "timestamp": "2026-10-15T18:22:15.000Z",
  "likesCount": 0,
  "repliesCount": 0
}

Profile details:

{
  "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/humansofny/",
  "id": "242598499",
  "username": "humansofny",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/humansofny/",
  "fullName": "Humans of New York",
  "biography": "New York City, one story at a time.\nCreated by Brandon Stanton...",
  "externalUrls": [{ "title": "Little Humans Board Book", "url": "https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374395476/littlehumans/", "link_type": "external" }],
  "externalUrl": "https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374395476/littlehumans/",
  "followersCount": 12644755,
  "followsCount": 756,
  "postsCount": 5876,
  "reelsCount": 1,
  "isBusinessAccount": false,
  "businessCategoryName": null,
  "private": false,
  "verified": true,
  "profilePicUrl": "https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/...",
  "profilePicUrlHD": "https://scontent-lga3-3.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/...",
  "fbid": "17841401154973790"
}

Hashtag details:

{
  "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fathersday/",
  "id": "17841563167118968",
  "name": "fathersday",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fathersday/",
  "postsCount": 22663666,
  "relatedHashtags": [
    { "name": "fathersdaygiftideas", "postsCount": 593260 },
    { "name": "fathersday2020", "postsCount": 357053 }
  ]
}

Place details:

{
  "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/218622660/lucerna-music-bar/",
  "location_id": "218622660",
  "name": "Lucerna Music Bar",
  "slug": "lucerna-music-bar",
  "category": "Live Music Venue",
  "description": "Lucerna Music Bar is a concert club in Prague, Czech Republic...",
  "phone": null,
  "website": "http://www.musicbar.cz/",
  "location_address": "Vodičkova 36",
  "location_zip": "110 00",
  "lat": 50.081113650673,
  "lng": 14.425622825572
}

Rows from a search add the searchTerm that found them. URLs that can't be read get a row with the reason, free of charge:

{ "input": "https://www.instagram.com/somemadeupuser/", "error": "Not found" }

Price

• $0.30 per 1,000 posts, reels or mentions
• $0.40 per 1,000 comments
• $2 per 1,000 profile, hashtag or place details
• $0.002 per URL (or profile, hashtag or place found by a search) that returns posts or comments
• URLs with nothing to return: free

Run	Cost
10 profiles, 100 posts each	$0.32
1 post, 1,000 comments	$0.40
Details of 500 profiles	$1.00

A run stops at the maximum cost you set for it. On Apify's free plan, a run returns up to 100 posts or comments, or 10 details.

FAQ

Where are a profile's latest posts in its details? Details carry the profile alone. Pick Posts for its posts: 100 of them cost $0.032.

Can I get emails, phone numbers and engagement rates? Instagram Influencer Scraper adds public contacts, average likes, engagement rate and paid partnerships to each profile.

How do I get comment replies, or a hashtag's top posts? Instagram Comment Scraper reads replies too, and Instagram Hashtag Scraper reads a hashtag's top posts besides the latest.

How does place search work? Like Instagram's own: it matches place names anywhere in the world, so search for a venue or a store by name (Lucerna Music Bar). A business type plus a city (vintage shop copenhagen) brings places with that name everywhere.

Can I scrape stories or private profiles? No. Only public posts, reels, comments and profiles.

Is it legal? It reads only public data. Captions, comments and usernames can be personal data under GDPR and similar laws: use them for a legitimate purpose and honor deletion requests.