💬 Instagram Comments Scraper Pro

Extract comments and replies from Instagram posts and reels — with real sort order, filtering, reply-of-reply threading, monitoring, commenter profile enrichment, and optional AI classification. Built for social listening, community management, moderation, comment lead-generation, and audience research.

This actor collects publicly available comment data via Instagram's internal GraphQL endpoints. It runs anonymously by default (no login required) and falls back through datacenter → residential proxies automatically when a post is blocked.

What it extracts

Each dataset row is a single comment or reply, labelled so you can tell them apart:

Field	Description
id	Comment/reply ID (Instagram pk)
type / isReply	comment or reply; boolean isReply
parentCommentId / depth	Parent comment ID for replies; thread depth (0 = top-level)
text	Comment text
timestamp	ISO-8601 UTC post time (or null if Instagram omits it — never fabricated)
ownerUsername / ownerFullName / ownerIsVerified	Real commenter identity from the payload
ownerProfilePicUrl	Commenter profile picture URL
likesCount / repliesCount	Engagement counts
commentUrl / postUrl	Deep links to the comment and the source post
owner	Full owner object with real payload fields (null where Instagram does not provide them)
scrapedAt	When the row was scraped (ISO-8601)

Optional — commenter enrichment (enrichCommenters): commenterFollowers, commenterBio, commenterExternalUrl, commenterIsBusiness, commenterCategory, commenterEmails[], commenterPhones[] (emails/phones regex-extracted from the public bio). Real values or null.

Optional — AI analysis (aiEnhancement): sentiment, emotion, intent, toxicityScore, language per comment.

Input options

Option	Type	Description
directUrls	array	Instagram post/reel URLs (/p/, /reel/, /tv/). Required.
maxComments	integer	Max top-level comments per post (1–500). Replies are counted separately.
includeNestedComments	boolean	Collect replies.
maxRepliesPerComment	integer	Max replies per comment (0–50).
maxReplyDepth	integer	Reply-of-reply descent depth (1–5).
sortOrder	enum	popular or recent — maps to the real GraphQL sort order.
flatReplies	boolean	On: replies as separate rows (+ mirrored to a per-run replies dataset). Off: nested replies[].
keywords / excludeKeywords	array	Keep/drop by text (case-insensitive).
minLikes	integer	Minimum likes.
verifiedOnly	boolean	Only verified commenters.
newerThanDate	date	Absolute (2025-01-01) or relative (7 days).
onlyNewComments	boolean	Monitoring: emit only comments unseen in prior runs (per post).
enrichCommenters / maxEnrichedCommenters	boolean / integer	Fetch commenter profiles; cap unique lookups.
aiEnhancement / aiModel / aiApiKey	boolean / enum / secret	Optional multi-provider AI classification.
sessionId	secret	Optional Instagram sessionid cookie for more stable access.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Optional proxy.

Example input

{
  "directUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8-GjPkgjS/"],
  "maxComments": 10,
  "includeNestedComments": true,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 3,
  "sortOrder": "recent",
  "flatReplies": true,
  "minLikes": 1
}

Example output row

{
  "id": "17907664950429082",
  "type": "comment",
  "isReply": false,
  "parentCommentId": null,
  "depth": 0,
  "timestamp": "2026-06-02T04:22:56.000Z",
  "text": "Instagram Logo Legend ✊",
  "ownerUsername": "elyorbek_hujjat_hojiyev",
  "ownerFullName": null,
  "ownerIsVerified": false,
  "likesCount": 1,
  "repliesCount": 0,
  "commentUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8-GjPkgjS/c/17907664950429082",
  "postUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8-GjPkgjS/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-02T12:00:00.000Z"
}

How counting works

maxComments caps top-level comments only. Replies are additional and bounded by maxRepliesPerComment per comment. Example: maxComments=10 + maxRepliesPerComment=3 → up to 10 comments and up to 30 replies.

Limits & notes

• Real hard cap is 500 top-level comments per post.
• Timestamps are emitted as null when Instagram omits them — values are never fabricated.
• Comments are de-duplicated by ID within a run.
• Output is available both as a Dataset (one row per comment/reply) and as a single JSON array under the key-value-store key OUTPUT. When flatReplies is on, replies are also mirrored to a per-run dataset named instagram-comments-replies-<runId>.

Legal / compliance

Only public comment data is collected. Review Instagram's Terms of Service and applicable data-protection law (e.g. GDPR) before scraping. Use for research, analytics, and moderation.

Keywords

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