# Instagram Location Scraper - Places, Coordinates and Posts (`s-r/instagram-location-scraper`) Actor

Turn an Instagram location ID or location URL into structured place data: name, city, street, coordinates, total post count and recent post shortcodes. No login required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/s-r/instagram-location-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [SR](https://apify.com/s-r) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 location returneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Instagram Location Scraper - Places, Coordinates and Posts

Turn an Instagram location ID or URL into structured place data: name, city, street, coordinates and post counts. No login, no cookies and no API key: the actor reads Instagram's public surface directly.

This is a single-purpose instagram location scraper. It does one thing, takes one input and returns one clean row per location.

### What you get

- `location_name`, `city`, `city_name` and `street` - the place as Instagram records it
- `lat`, `lng`, `latitude`, `longitude` - coordinates for mapping and joins
- `media_count` - total posts tagged at the location, the popularity signal
- `recent_post_count` and `recent_post_shortcodes` - a sample of what is being posted there now
- `location_id` and `url` - the canonical id and public URL for joining back

### Why scrape this from Instagram

Instagram location pages are a geographic dataset hiding in plain sight. Every venue that has ever been tagged has a page with coordinates and a running post count, which together make a decent proxy for foot traffic and cultural relevance. None of it is exposed through an API, and the pages are built for browsing rather than extraction.

This actor accepts either a bare location ID or a full location URL, detects which you gave it, and returns the page as a row. Coordinates come back as numbers, so the output joins directly against your own venue list or drops into a mapping tool without cleanup.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `search` | array | yes | `['213385402']` | Instagram location IDs or full location URLs, one per line. |

### Output

One row per location.

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `location_id` | Instagram numeric location id |
| `location_name` | Place name as Instagram shows it |
| `city` | City the place sits in |
| `city_name` | City name as Instagram reports it |
| `street` | Street address when published |
| `lat` | Latitude |
| `lng` | Longitude |
| `latitude` | Latitude as returned upstream |
| `longitude` | Longitude as returned upstream |
| `media_count` | Total posts tagged at this location |
| `recent_post_count` | Recent posts sampled |
| `recent_post_shortcodes` | Shortcodes of the recent posts |
| `url` | Public Instagram URL for this record |
| `record_type` | Which kind of row this is |

### Use cases

**Retail and hospitality site analysis.** Pull `media_count` for a set of candidate locations and compare. A venue with a high tagged-post count relative to its neighbours has organic visibility that does not show up in footfall data, which matters when the decision is between two addresses on the same street.

**Tourism and destination research.** Location pages reveal which spots visitors actually tag, which frequently differs from the official attraction list. Coordinates plus post counts turn that into a heat map of where attention concentrates in a city.

**Competitive venue benchmarking.** Track your own location against nearby competitors over time. Because `media_count` is cumulative, sampling it on a schedule gives you a growth rate rather than a single reading, and the rate is the interesting number.

**Enriching a venue database.** If you already hold a list of Instagram location IDs, this fills in name, city, street and coordinates in one pass. Useful for cleaning a venue table where addresses were entered by hand and coordinates are missing.

### How it compares

There is no Apify-official Instagram location actor. The largest third-party listing in the category sits around 1.37 million lifetime runs, so there is real demand here, but no platform-owned incumbent setting the price.

### Pricing

$0.0020 per location returned, which is $2.00 per 1,000 rows. All pricing is pay-per-event - you only pay for results you receive. No actor-start fee, no per-compute-unit charges.

### Limits and gotchas

- Input is an ID or a location URL. There is no name search.
- Some locations publish no street or city; those fields come back empty rather than guessed.
- `media_count` is cumulative and never decreases, so change over time only appears if you sample on a schedule.
- Recent post shortcodes are a sample, not the full tagged history.
- Free Apify plans are capped at 10 rows per run. Paid plans have no cap.
- Locations that have been merged or removed return an error row rather than a blank record.

### FAQ

**How do I find an Instagram location ID?**

It is the numeric segment in a location URL, for example the digits in instagram.com/explore/locations/213385402/. You can paste either the bare ID or the whole URL; the actor detects which you gave it.

**Can I scrape Instagram locations without logging in?**

Yes. Location pages are public and this actor reads them logged out, so no account, cookie or API key is involved.

**Does it return the posts tagged at a location?**

It returns a sample of recent post shortcodes plus the total tagged-post count. For full post detail, feed those shortcodes into an Instagram post scraper.

**Are the coordinates accurate enough to map?**

They are the coordinates Instagram holds for the venue, returned as numbers rather than strings, so they plot directly. Accuracy is whatever Instagram recorded when the place was created.

**Can I search locations by name?**

Not with this actor. It resolves known IDs and URLs rather than performing a place search.

### Related Actors

- [Instagram Profile Scraper](https://apify.com/s-r/instagram-profile-scraper)
- [Instagram Post Scraper](https://apify.com/s-r/instagram-post-scraper)
- [Instagram Keyword Scraper](https://apify.com/s-r/instagram-keyword-scraper)

# Actor input Schema

## `search` (type: `array`):

Instagram location IDs or full location URLs, one per line.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "search": [
    "213385402",
    "https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/212988663/"
  ]
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "search": [
        "213385402"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("s-r/instagram-location-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "search": ["213385402"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("s-r/instagram-location-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "search": [
    "213385402"
  ]
}' |
apify call s-r/instagram-location-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=s-r/instagram-location-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/D9a6VH7ZG9O4mtJDS/builds/8MpJfLFPYN86PTEHg/openapi.json