Instagram Trending Reels Finder

Type a niche and get the reels gaining views fastest right now, ranked by views per hour, with the audio each one uses.

$0.05 per topic.

What it's for

• Content ideas: the formats and hooks taking off in your niche this week, while there's still time to ride them.
• Trending audio: the songs and sounds behind the fastest reels, with Instagram's trending mark and how many reels already use each song.
• Creator scouting: accounts whose reels are breaking out, with views and engagement.
• Trend reports: schedule it daily and send the top reels to Slack, Google Sheets or an AI agent.

How it ranks

For each topic it reads Instagram's own ranking of the topic's hashtag (about 150 recent reels) and Instagram's reels search for its words (24 more). Reels posted in the period you pick are ranked by views per hour: a reel with 300,000 views in 10 hours ranks above one with 2 million in two weeks.

Input

Field	What it does
topics	Niches, keywords or hashtags, one per line: home workout, #skincare, air fryer recipes
maxAgeDays	Only reels posted in the last N days (default 7, up to 30)
resultsPerTopic	Reels per topic (default 25, up to 100)

Words are also read as one hashtag, as Instagram merges them: home workout reads #homeworkout.

Output

One row per reel, fastest first:

{
  "topic": "home workout",
  "rank": 1,
  "viewsPerHour": 101910,
  "hoursSincePosted": 23.1,
  "engagementRate": 2.32,
  "id": "4009365400268226466",
  "shortCode": "DekIJbJur-i",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DekIJbJur-i/",
  "caption": "Set a 20 minute timer and do as many sets of 10 reps that you can...",
  "hashtags": ["kettlebell", "workout", "homegym", "homeworkout"],
  "timestamp": "2026-10-18T12:02:28.000Z",
  "videoPlayCount": 2357629,
  "likesCount": 54055,
  "commentsCount": 530,
  "videoDuration": 13.582,
  "displayUrl": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/...",
  "videoUrl": "https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t16/f2/m84/...",
  "ownerUsername": "joeryantraining",
  "ownerFullName": "Joe Ryan | Fitness Coach",
  "paidPartnership": false,
  "audio": {
    "id": "7095481260474322",
    "name": "Sad but true",
    "artist": "MEATALLICA",
    "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reels/audio/7095481260474322/",
    "isOriginal": false,
    "isTrending": false,
    "reelsCount": 66495
  }
}

• engagementRate: likes and comments per 100 views; null when the author hides likes.
• audio.isTrending: Instagram marks the audio as trending.
• audio.reelsCount: reels across Instagram using the song, for the first 10 songs of each topic. Original sounds have no count.

Topics with no reels in the period get a row with the reason, free of charge:

{ "input": "zqxjvbnwkplmtrd", "error": "No reels from the last 3 days" }

Price

• $0.05 per topic, up to 100 reels each
• Topics with no reels in the period: free

Run	Cost
1 topic, top 25 reels	$0.05
10 topics every day for a month	$15

A run stops at the maximum cost you set for it. On Apify's free plan, a run returns the top 10 reels of one topic.

FAQ

Why views per hour and not total views? Total views favor old reels. Views per hour shows what's growing now.

How far back does it go? Instagram's hashtag rankings reach back about 9 days. Older reels come only from its keyword search, so a 30-day period adds a few big ones.

Can I get all the reels of a hashtag or a profile? Instagram Hashtag Scraper reads a hashtag's reels and posts, and Instagram Reel Scraper a profile's, from $0.30 per 1,000.

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