📸 Instagram Post & Video Scraper, Video Post Downloader 🎬 – Advanced Media & Metadata Extractor

📥 Overview

Need to download videos from Instagram posts and carousels with complete metadata? Your search ends here!

This Instagram Post & Video Scraper efficiently extracts videos, thumbnails, and comprehensive metadata from public Instagram posts at impressive speeds. Supports high-quality video downloads with detailed technical analysis, engagement metrics, and post information!

🎯 Perfect for digital marketers, content creators, researchers, or social media analysts who need reliable Instagram data extraction and media archiving.

🚀 Instant Results: Direct video download links within minutes
📊 Rich Metadata: Extraction of likes, comments, descriptions, and technical video specs
🛠️ Advanced Analysis: Optional detailed video stream metadata with codec information
🔒 Secure Access: No Instagram login required for public content
📦 Flexible Storage: Toggle between Apify storage or direct links

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🎥 Key Features

🌟 Multi-Content Support

✅ Download videos from Instagram posts and carousels
✅ Extract multiple videos from single posts when available

📊 Comprehensive Metadata Extraction

✅ Engagement metrics: Likes, comments counts
✅ Post information: Description, upload date, author details
✅ Technical data: Hashtags, viewport, app links, and social metadata
✅ Advanced video metadata: Codec details, dimensions, duration, bitrates (when enabled)

🛠️ Advanced Output Options

✅ Separate video and thumbnail download links
✅ Structured JSON output with organized metadata hierarchies
✅ Configurable storage options (Apify KV Store or direct links)

⚙️ Smart Configuration

✅ Additional Metadata Toggle: Enable/disable detailed video technical analysis
✅ Key-Value Store Toggle: Control where your files are stored
✅ Batch Processing: Support for multiple URLs in single run

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⚙️ Input Configuration

Simply provide your Instagram post URLs and preferences:

{
  "post_urls": [
    { 
      "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DM-qZyuxRpf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link", 
      "method": "GET" 
    }
  ],
  "use_key_value_store": true,
  "additional_video_metadata": true
}

📋 Input Fields

Field	Emoji	Description
post_urls	📸	List of Instagram post URLs to scrape
use_key_value_store	🗄️	true for Apify storage, false for direct links
additional_video_metadata	🔍	true to enable detailed technical video analysis

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📤 Output Examples

Get structured data with download links and comprehensive metadata:

🔐 Apify Storage Mode (With Additional Metadata)

[
  {
    "original_url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DM-qZyuxRpf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link",
    "author_username": "nba",
    "likes": "162K",
    "comments": "155",
    "upload_date": "August 5, 2025",
    "description": "A Statue of Liberty slam from Victor Wembanyama through the lens of @natlyphoto 👽🗽 Is this your pick for Photo of the Year? Use your NBA ID to vote for Wemby’s picture-perfect dunk, now on the NBA App!.",
    "feedback": "Congrats, video found.",
    "Post_Metadata": {
      "caption": "NBA on Instagram: \"A Statue of Liberty slam from Victor Wembanyama through the lens of @natlyphoto 👽🗽\n\nIs this your pick for Photo of the Year? Use your NBA ID to vote for Wemby’s picture-perfect dunk, now on the NBA App!\"",
      "owner_user_id": "20824486",
      "image_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/528648978_18574.........",
      "shortcode": "DM-qZyuxRpf",
      "hashtags": [],
      "author_username": "nba",
      "bingbot": "noarchive",
      "robots": "noarchive, noimageindex",
      "apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style": "default",
      "mobile-web-app-capable": "yes",
      "viewport": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover",
      "theme-color": "#ffffff",
      "og:type": "article",
      "medium": "image",
      "twitter:card": "summary_large_image",
      "twitter:site": "@instagram",
      "twitter:maxage": "86400",
      "twitter:image": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/528648978_185.......",
      "twitter:title": "NBA (@nba) • Instagram photos and videos",
      "al:ios:app_name": "Instagram",
      "al:ios:app_store_id": "389801252",
      "al:ios:url": "instagram://media?id=3692575234902530655",
      "al:android:app_name": "Instagram",
      "al:android:package": "com.instagram.android",
      "al:android:url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DM-qZyuxRpf/",
      "fb:app_id": "124024574287414",
      "instapp:owner_user_id": "20824486",
      "description": "A Statue of Liberty slam from Victor Wembanyama through the lens of @natlyphoto 👽🗽 Is this your pick for Photo of the Year? Use your NBA ID to vote for Wemby’s picture-perfect dunk, now on the NBA App!.",
      "og:site_name": "Instagram",
      "og:title": "NBA on Instagram: \"A Statue of Liberty slam from Victor Wembanyama through the lens of @natlyphoto 👽🗽\n\nIs this your pick for Photo of the Year? Use your NBA ID to vote for Wemby’s picture-perfect dunk, now on the NBA App!\"",
      "og:image": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/528648978_.....",
      "og:url": "https://www.instagram.com/nba/p/DM-qZyuxRpf/",
      "og:description": "162K likes, 155 comments - nba on August 5, 2025: \"A Statue of Liberty slam from Victor Wembanyama through the lens of @natlyphoto 👽🗽\n\nIs this your pick for Photo of the Year? Use your NBA ID to vote for Wemby’s picture-perfect dunk, now on the NBA App!\". ",
      "application-title": "Instagram",
      "color-scheme": "light",
      "likes": "162K",
      "comments": "155",
      "upload_date": "August 5, 2025"
    },
    "videos": [
      {
        "video_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/FuBbj98gng55khSCm/records/video_fd.......",
        "thumbnail_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/FuBbj98gng55khSCm........"
      }
    ],
    "video_metadata": {
      "video_1_metadata": {
        "video_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/FuBbj98gng55khSCm/records/video_fd7e..........",
        "streams": [
          {
            "index": 0,
            "codec_name": "h264",
            "codec_long_name": "H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10",
            "profile": "High",
            "codec_type": "video",
            "codec_tag_string": "avc1",
            "codec_tag": "0x31637661",
            "width": 720,
            "height": 900,
            "coded_width": 720,
            "coded_height": 900,
            "closed_captions": 0,
            "film_grain": 0,
            "has_b_frames": 2,
            "pix_fmt": "yuv420p",
            "level": 31,
            "color_range": "tv",
            "color_space": "bt709",
            "color_transfer": "bt709",
            "color_primaries": "bt709",
            "chroma_location": "left",
            "field_order": "progressive",
            "refs": 1,
            "is_avc": "true",
            "nal_length_size": "4",
            "id": "0x1",
            "r_frame_rate": "30/1",
            "avg_frame_rate": "30/1",
            "time_base": "1/15360",
            "start_pts": 0,
            "start_time": "0.000000",
            "duration_ts": 363008,
            "duration": "23.633333",
            "bit_rate": "2024308",
            "bits_per_raw_sample": "8",
            "nb_frames": "709",
            "extradata_size": 50,
            "disposition": {
              "default": 1,
              "dub": 0,
              "original": 0,
              "comment": 0,
              "lyrics": 0,
              "karaoke": 0,
              "forced": 0,
              "hearing_impaired": 0,
              "visual_impaired": 0,
              "clean_effects": 0,
              "attached_pic": 0,
              "timed_thumbnails": 0,
              "captions": 0,
              "descriptions": 0,
              "metadata": 0,
              "dependent": 0,
              "still_image": 0
            },
            "tags": {
              "language": "und",
              "handler_name": "VideoHandler",
              "vendor_id": "[0][0][0][0]",
              "encoder": "AVC Coding"
            }
          },
          {
            "index": 1,
            "codec_name": "aac",
            "codec_long_name": "AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)",
            "profile": "HE-AAC",
            "codec_type": "audio",
            "codec_tag_string": "mp4a",
            "codec_tag": "0x6134706d",
            "sample_fmt": "fltp",
            "sample_rate": "44100",
            "channels": 2,
            "channel_layout": "stereo",
            "bits_per_sample": 0,
            "id": "0x2",
            "r_frame_rate": "0/0",
            "avg_frame_rate": "0/0",
            "time_base": "1/44100",
            "start_pts": 0,
            "start_time": "0.000000",
            "duration_ts": 1045378,
            "duration": "23.704717",
            "bit_rate": "57558",
            "nb_frames": "511",
            "extradata_size": 4,
            "disposition": {
              "default": 1,
              "dub": 0,
              "original": 0,
              "comment": 0,
              "lyrics": 0,
              "karaoke": 0,
              "forced": 0,
              "hearing_impaired": 0,
              "visual_impaired": 0,
              "clean_effects": 0,
              "attached_pic": 0,
              "timed_thumbnails": 0,
              "captions": 0,
              "descriptions": 0,
              "metadata": 0,
              "dependent": 0,
              "still_image": 0
            },
            "tags": {
              "language": "und",
              "handler_name": "SoundHandler",
              "vendor_id": "[0][0][0][0]"
            }
          }
        ],
        "format": {
          "filename": "temp_61af3ad3-5b3c-409a-932e-e8180051c971.mp4",
          "nb_streams": 2,
          "nb_programs": 0,
          "format_name": "mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2",
          "format_long_name": "QuickTime / MOV",
          "start_time": "0.000000",
          "duration": "23.705000",
          "size": "6171340",
          "bit_rate": "2082713",
          "probe_score": 100,
          "tags": {
            "major_brand": "isom",
            "minor_version": "512",
            "compatible_brands": "isomiso2avc1mp41"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
]

🧾 Output Fields Explanation

📊 Basic Post Information

• original_url: The source Instagram post URL
• author_username: Instagram username of the post author
• likes, comments: Engagement metrics
• upload_date: When the post was published
• description: Post caption/description
• feedback: Status message about the extraction

📝 Post Metadata (Post_Metadata)

• caption: Full post caption with mentions and hashtags
• owner_user_id: Instagram's internal user ID
• image_url: URL to the primary post image
• shortcode: Instagram's unique post identifier
• hashtags: Extracted hashtags from the caption
• Various Open Graph and Twitter metadata tags

🎥 Video Information (videos)

• video_url: Download link for the video
• thumbnail_url: Download link for the video thumbnail

🔍 Video Metadata (video_metadata) - When Enabled

• Stream information: Technical details for each video/audio stream
• Format information: Container details and overall file specifications
• Technical specs: Codec, dimensions, framerate, bitrate, duration

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🎯 Use Cases

👨‍💻 Digital Marketers: Analyze competitor content and engagement strategies
📊 Researchers: Study social media trends and video performance metrics
🎬 Content Creators: Archive and repurpose content across platforms
📱 Social Media Managers: Monitor brand mentions and campaign performance
🤖 Developers: Integrate Instagram data into applications and dashboards
🏢 Brands: Monitor user-generated content and brand mentions

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🔒 Privacy & Ethics

🔐 Public Content Only: Only accesses publicly available Instagram content
🚫 No Login Required: Doesn't require Instagram credentials
📜 Compliance: Designed to respect Instagram's Terms of Service for public data access
👁️ Transparency: Clear documentation of what data is collected

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📊 Dataset Views

The actor provides multiple organized views of your extracted data:

🎥 Videos Overview

• Post URL, username, video links, and processing feedback
• Perfect for quickly accessing your downloaded media

🕵️‍♂️ Video Metadata

• Technical details about video streams and formats
• Essential for developers and technical analysts

📬 Post Metadata

• Comprehensive social media metadata and engagement metrics
• Ideal for social media managers and marketers

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📧 Need Customization?

Need additional fields, different platforms, or specialized metadata?

✉️ Email scrapearchitect@gmail.com for tailored solutions!

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