Instagram Comments Scraper: comments of posts and reels, no login

Scrape the comments of public Instagram posts and reels into clean JSON, CSV or Excel, without login, cookies or an Instagram account. Paste post or reel links and get every comment's text, date, likes, reply count, the commenter's username and verified badge, plus the post's caption, author, date, likes and comment count on every row, so each row makes sense on its own in a spreadsheet. Several posts are read in parallel.

It is used by social media managers and agencies for brand and campaign monitoring, by marketers vetting influencers, by giveaway hosts picking winners, and by researchers and AI teams building comment datasets for sentiment analysis.

Instagram comments scraper pricing at a glance

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold and above
Comment delivered, per 1,000	US$ 0.50	US$ 0.475	US$ 0.45	US$ 0.425

• 19 fields per comment, listed in the field reference: 9 about the comment and its author, 7 about the post, and the source link and time.
• No login, no cookies: your Instagram account is never used, so it is never at risk.
• Inputs: post links, reel links or just the shortcode, as many as you want in one run.
• Speed: 3 posts in parallel; about 3,400 comments in 3 minutes in our test.
• No monthly fee, no start fee. 10,000 comments cost US$ 5.00. Error rows and duplicates are free, each error with an errorCode.

What you can do with Instagram comments

• Sentiment and brand monitoring: what people say under your posts, your competitors' posts and influencer campaigns.
• Giveaways and contests: export every comment of a giveaway post and pick winners from the list.
• Influencer vetting: read the real comments under a creator's posts before you pay for a campaign; ownerIsVerified and likeCount show who drives the conversation.
• Customer research: questions, complaints and product requests left under ads and launch posts.
• Datasets for AI and research: clean text, date and likes on every row, ready for sentiment or topic models.

Instagram comments scraper input

Up to 2,000 comments from one reel and one carousel post:

{ "postUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdwXSSkMvJz/", "https://www.instagram.com/p/C3a0xOnLSCx/"], "maxComments": 2000 }

Shortcodes work too, and the limit applies to each post:

{ "postUrls": ["DdwXSSkMvJz", "C3a0xOnLSCx"], "maxComments": 300 }

Field	What it does
postUrls	Links to public posts or reels (instagram.com/p/CODE, /reel/CODE, /reels/CODE, /tv/CODE) or just the code
maxComments	Default 100, per post

An empty input reads an example post, so you can see the output before you set anything.

Coming from another Instagram comments actor? Your input works

Your field	Read as
directUrls, urls, startUrls (strings or {"url": ...})	postUrls
resultsLimit, maxItems	maxComments

Links with a username in the path (instagram.com/username/p/CODE) are read too. Fields with no meaning here are ignored instead of failing the run.

What data the Instagram comments scraper returns

One real row

Reel DdwXSSkMvJz, top comment by likes (collected on 2026-09-30):

{
  "type": "comment",
  "id": "18630364897057825",
  "text": "You're the best, Ronaldo.👑🇵🇹",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-29T06:21:48Z",
  "likeCount": 64,
  "replyCount": 0,
  "ownerUsername": "narin_rstmi",
  "ownerIsVerified": false,
  "postUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DdwXSSkMvJz/",
  "postShortcode": "DdwXSSkMvJz",
  "postType": "reel",
  "postOwnerUsername": "portugal",
  "postTakenAt": "2026-09-26T15:33:36Z",
  "postLikeCount": 2319330,
  "postCommentCount": 22510
}

Every row also carries hasGif, postCaption (the full caption of the post), source and scrapedAt.

Field reference

Field	What it is
type	comment (or error for a free error row)
id	Comment id, unique per comment; duplicates are dropped and not charged
text	Comment text, emojis and mentions included
createdAt	When the comment was posted (ISO 8601, UTC)
likeCount	Likes on the comment
replyCount	How many replies the comment has
hasGif	true when the comment is a GIF
ownerUsername, ownerIsVerified	Commenter's username and verified badge
postUrl, postShortcode	The post the comment belongs to
postType	image, video, carousel or reel
postCaption	The post caption
postOwnerUsername	Who published the post
postTakenAt	When the post was published
postLikeCount, postCommentCount	Likes and comments of the post (the comment count includes replies)
source, scrapedAt	The link you gave, and when the row was collected

Only what Instagram shows publicly about the commenter: username and verified badge. Never user ids or profile photos.

Error codes (never charged)

errorCode	Meaning
POST_NOT_FOUND	The post was deleted, is private or the link is wrong
NO_COMMENTS, NO_RESULTS	The post has no public comments, or none could be read
INVALID_URL, INVALID_INPUT	A value the Actor does not understand
BLOCKED	Instagram did not answer after retries; run again
NOT_REACHED, UNEXPECTED	The run timeout arrived, or something unforeseen broke; only that post is lost

Integrations, scheduling and AI agents

Video guides from Apify: how to schedule an Actor and how to connect it to other apps.

• Schedule the same posts daily in Apify schedules to follow a campaign or a giveaway as comments arrive.
• Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read the dataset from the Apify API.
• Connect it to Make, n8n, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack or a webhook through Apify integrations.
• AI agents: the Actor works as a tool through the Apify MCP server in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients, for example "summarize the complaints under this reel".

Through the API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapewise~instagram-comments-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"postUrls":["https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdwXSSkMvJz/"],"maxComments":500}'

Instagram comments scraper limitations

• Top-level comments only. Instagram does not show replies to logged-out visitors, so replyCount tells how many replies a comment has, but the replies themselves are not returned. That is also why postCommentCount (which counts replies) can be higher than the number of rows.
• Posts and reels only. It does not list the posts of a profile or a hashtag; give it the post links.
• Only public posts and reels. This Actor reads public pages only and respects the site's terms.

Instagram comments scraper FAQ

Do I need an Instagram account or cookies? No. Nothing is logged in, so no account can be flagged or banned.

Why not the official Instagram API? Instagram's official API (the Graph API) covers accounts you manage through a Meta developer app; it does not give the comments of other people's public posts. This Actor reads any public post or reel with no account and adds the post's caption, author, likes and comment count to every row.

How many comments can I get from one post? As many as Instagram shows to a logged-out visitor, up to maxComments per post. Set it high (for example 10,000) for a giveaway.

What does a run cost? Only the comments delivered: US$ 0.50 per 1,000 on the Free plan. There is no Apify compute bill on top.

Can I scrape comments from a private account? No. Only public posts and reels; a private or deleted post comes back as a free POST_NOT_FOUND row.

How do I export the comments to Excel or Google Sheets? Open the run's dataset and pick Excel or CSV, or connect Google Sheets through Apify integrations so new comments land in a sheet after each scheduled run.

Can I get the replies too? Not yet: Instagram hides them from logged-out visitors. replyCount shows which comments have replies.

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Changelog

• 16 Oct 2026: field reference, input names from other Instagram comments actors, integrations section and FAQ in this page.
• 2026-09-30, 0.1: first release. Comments of posts and reels without login, post data on every row, 3 posts in parallel, free error rows.

Independent tool, not affiliated with Instagram or Meta Platforms.