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$19.99/month + usage

Instagram Highlights Scraper

Instagram Highlights Scraper 📸✨ extracts public highlight titles, cover images, story media, and metadata from Instagram profiles. Ideal for content research, competitor tracking, brand monitoring, and social media analysis. Fast, clean, and ready for automation at scale. 🚀📊

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$19.99/month + usage

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ScrapeFlow

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Social media

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You can access the Instagram Highlights Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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Instagram Highlights Scraper OpenAPI definition

OpenAPI is a standard for designing and describing RESTful APIs, allowing developers to define API structure, endpoints, and data formats in a machine-readable way. It simplifies API development, integration, and documentation.

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By defining machine-readable API specifications, OpenAPI allows AI models like GPTs to understand and use varied data sources, improving accuracy. This accelerates development, reduces errors, and provides context-aware responses, making OpenAPI a core component for AI applications.

You can download the OpenAPI definitions for Instagram Highlights Scraper from the options below:

OpenAPI.json

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