Instagram Posts Scraper
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 instagram results
Scrape public Instagram posts and profiles, including captions, likes, comments, Reel play counts, and exact follower counts. Supports profile pagination and direct post URLs.
Dates record source changes, not Apify publication dates.
Support pay-per-event billing with the result event for posts and profiles. Reject missing or duplicate result pricing, stop at the charge limit, and retain incomplete-run reporting.
Block external scripts and stylesheets to reduce downloaded traffic while retaining embedded data parsing and GraphQL pagination.
Skip fixed page waits when the required embedded data is already valid, and initialize pagination immediately when request metadata is ready. Retain waiting and metadata rereads for delayed data.
Initialize pagination from same-page embedded query metadata and request tokens when no automatic GraphQL request is captured.
Diagnose initial-feed login/challenge redirects and missing or ambiguous feed connections in RUN-SUMMARY.
Capture both /api/graphql path variants and wait briefly for delayed requests. Match pagination query metadata by query name and username, preferring captured matching requests over embedded metadata.
Include bounded pagination failure diagnostics for missing request/query metadata, HTTP failures, malformed responses, and account mismatches without storing request tokens or upstream response bodies.
Include verified author followersCount on post rows, reusing profile data within the browser session. Keep standalone followers-only JSON/API input compatible while removing its form control.
Remove the fixed-value detail-level, skip-pinned-posts, and About-section controls from the input form. Keep their existing API parameters and validation compatible.
Link this changelog from the Actor definition.
Clarify that current operator-reported runs are failing despite earlier local validation; the cause is not yet established.
Added missing input field descriptions required by Apify build validation.
Validate selected-feed errors consistently in embedded first pages and subsequent responses.
Stop Reel lookups once the target is found; resume cached cursors for later targets in the same browser session.
Skip other-author profile posts before Reel enrichment and record the skipped count.
Added public profile timeline pagination and direct-post refreshes with verified IDs.
Added exact profile follower counts and Reel play counts sourced from paginated author Reels lists.
Preserved captions, top-level carousel identity, nullable metrics and explicit zero values.
Added incomplete-run failure handling, diagnostic summaries, local regression tests and a consumer compatibility checker.
Local implementation only; not published or cloud-validated.
