Instagram Audio Scraper & API: Reels Using a Sound

Instagram Audio Scraper

Get the Reels using any Instagram sound, song or original audio: plays, likes, comments, posting time, caption, creator and the MP4 link of every Reel, plus one row for the sound itself with Instagram's exact Reels count, its growth per day, artist, duration, cover, audio file and Spotify link.

{ "audios": ["https://www.instagram.com/reels/audio/1584203999231664/"], "maxReelsPerAudio": 50 }

No Instagram login, no cookies, no browser. Paste an audio page link, an audio ID or simply the link of a Reel: the Actor finds the sound that Reel uses and returns the other Reels using it. Use it as an Instagram audio API for music marketing, campaign tracking, trend research and creator scouting.

What you get

Real example, 19 October 2026. The sound rows:

sound	artist	Reels in all	median plays of top Reels	Spotify
Believer	Imagine Dragons	1,802,101	54,554	open.spotify.com/track/0pqnGHJpmpxLKifKRmU6WP
Don't Stop Me Now	Queen	2,645	3,187	open.spotify.com/track/1NHWG8zxSEypSRF3UufrnO

And the Reels using them, in Instagram's own order:

sound	rank	posted	plays	likes	comments
Believer	1	2026-09-26	135,271	6,130	38
Believer	2	2026-09-20	184,767	4,269	43
Believer	3	2026-10-14	3,462	203	52
Don't Stop Me Now	1	2026-10-10	31,132	429	32
Don't Stop Me Now	2	2026-10-04	3,187	142	102

Sound row (rowType: "sound"), one per sound:

Field	Example	What it is
audioId, audioUrl	579408562507956, instagram.com/reels/audio/579408562507956/	the sound and its Instagram page
soundTitle, soundArtist, artistUsername	Believer, Imagine Dragons, imaginedragons	for original audio: "Original audio" and its creator
isOriginalAudio	false	a creator's own recording (true) or a licensed song (false)
reelsCount, reelsCountText	1,802,101, "1.8M reels"	Instagram's exact count of Reels using the sound
reelsGrowthPerDay, reelsCountChange, reelsCountBefore, reelsCountBeforeAt		new Reels per day, compared with the count seen about a day earlier (any user's run of this Actor)
reelsRead, reelsReturned, medianPlays, maxPlays	24, 15, 3,187, 442,464	Reels Instagram showed, Reels returned after filters, plays of the Reels read
durationSeconds, isExplicit, hasLyrics	204.3, false, false
spotifyTrackId, spotifyUrl	0pqnGHJpmpxLKifKRmU6WP	the song on Spotify
coverUrl, audioFileUrl	scontent…cdninstagram.com/…	cover art and the audio file (Instagram links expire after a few days)
previousRunAt		your previous run with this sound and monitor name

Reel row (rowType: "reel"), one per Reel:

Field	Example	What it is
audioId, soundTitle, soundArtist	579408562507956, Believer, Imagine Dragons	the sound it uses
rank	1	position on the sound's page in Instagram (top Reels first)
reelUrl, shortcode, reelId	instagram.com/reel/DduwywOxnDp/	the Reel
postedAt	2026-09-26T00:37:10Z	posting time (UTC)
plays, likes, comments	135,271, 6,130, 38	exact counts, as in the app (likes is empty when the author hides them)
caption, hashtags, mentions	"No attitude, just standards ❤️🫰🏼", [], []	caption text, its hashtags and @mentions
durationSeconds, videoUrl, coverUrl	scontent…cdninstagram.com/….mp4	the MP4 file and the cover image
ownerUsername, ownerFullName, ownerId, ownerVerified		the creator
coauthors, taggedUsers, locationName, isPaidPartnership		collaborators, tagged accounts, location, "Paid partnership" label
source	https://www.instagram.com/reels/audio/579408562507956/	the line of your input

The Reels using the sound view of the dataset shows the Reels table; Sounds shows the counts and growth. Export to Excel, CSV, JSON or Google Sheets.

How to use it

1. Add sounds, one per line: an audio page link (https://www.instagram.com/reels/audio/1584203999231664/), an audio ID (1584203999231664) or the link of a Reel that uses the sound (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeAVuphM4C-/).
2. Set Max Reels per sound (Instagram shows about 200 Reels per sound; 0 = only the sound row).
3. Optional filters: Posted after (a date like 2026-10-01 or a period like 7 days) and Minimum plays. Reels that do not pass are free.
4. Run, then open the dataset or call it from the API.

Which Reels Instagram shows

The sound page in the Instagram app lists the top Reels using the sound from about the last month, not all of them: about 190-240 Reels for a popular song, fewer for a small original sound. The Actor returns the same list, in the same order (rank), and the exact total in reelsCount. Run it daily to collect new Reels as they appear.

Why this Actor

	This Actor	Typical Instagram audio scrapers
Login, cookies	none	some need your session
Input	audio link, audio ID or any Reel's link	often an audio ID only
Sound data	exact Reels count, growth per day, Spotify link, artist, cover, audio file	count only, or a separate paid add-on
Reels	plays, likes, comments, date, caption, creator, MP4, rank	similar
Monitoring	only-new mode + daily growth for scheduled runs	no
Price	Reel $1.49, sound $3.99 per 1,000 (lower on paid plans)	$1.50-10 per 1,000 rows, sometimes + start fees

Track a sound or a campaign song

Save your input as a task, schedule it every day and turn on Only new Reels since the previous run: each run returns the sound row (Reels count and new Reels per day) and only the Reels you have not received yet. Set Max Reels per sound to 0 to track only the counts of many sounds cheaply. Send the rows to Google Sheets, Slack, email or a webhook with an Apify integration.

Pricing

Pay per result, no subscription:

Event	Free	Starter	Scale	Business	When
Reel using the sound	$1.49	$1.39	$1.19	$0.99	per 1,000 Reels in the results
Sound	$3.99	$3.59	$3.19	$2.79	per 1,000 sound rows (one per sound and run)
Run start	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001	per run

Examples on Starter: 50 Reels of one sound = $0.07; 200 Reels of each of 10 sounds ≈ $2.82; a daily count of 20 sounds without Reels ≈ $2.20 a month. Sounds that are not found, posts without a sound and filtered-out Reels are free.

FAQ

Do I need an Instagram account? No. The Actor reads the public sound page the way a logged-out visitor sees it.

Songs and original audio? Both. An original audio's artist is the creator who recorded it.

Why fewer Reels than reelsCount? Instagram shows only the top Reels of about the last month on a sound's page (see above). reelsCount is the exact total.

Where does the growth per day come from? Every run stores the sound's Reels count; the next run (yours or another user's, at least 6 hours later) compares with the count closest to a day earlier. The first time anyone checks a sound, the growth columns are empty.

Can I search sounds by name? Not in this Actor: Instagram's sound search needs a login. For the sounds trending right now, use Instagram Trending Audio, then pass their IDs here.

Can I download the videos or the audio? Each Reel row has videoUrl (MP4) and each sound row audioFileUrl. Instagram's links expire after a few days, so download them soon after the run.

Use with the API and AI agents

Run it from your code or an AI agent with the Apify API, the Apify MCP server or the Python and JavaScript clients; read the results from the dataset (?view=reels or ?view=sounds).

Other social media tools

Tool	What it does
Instagram Trending Audio	Reels sounds trending right now in any country, with Reels counts and daily growth
Instagram Post Scraper	Any post, Reel or carousel by link with the exact posting time, likes, comments and plays
TikTok Trending Sounds & Songs Scraper	The sounds trending on TikTok in any country

Is it legal?

The Actor reads only public Reels and sound pages that Instagram shows to any visitor, without logging in. Songs and videos belong to their owners: use the data for research and analysis, and handle personal data such as usernames in line with GDPR and other privacy laws.