Instagram Hashtag Scraper

🚀 What is Instagram Hashtag Scraper Pro?

Instagram Hashtag Scraper Pro is a fast, flexible, and developer-friendly API designed to extract high-quality data from Instagram posts based on hashtag searches. Whether you're tracking trends, analyzing brand engagement, or researching influencer activity, our API gives you structured and relevant data in seconds.

Unlike other tools, we focus on precision and customization: get only the fields you need, with no noise — perfect for data pipelines, dashboards, or direct integration into your apps.

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⚙️ How It Works

1. Send a POST request with your desired hashtags and result limits. Instagram /explore/tags/<tag>/ URLs are also accepted.
2. Review any input warnings, then receive structured data in JSON format as available.
3. Integrate it seamlessly into your workflows or tools.

Hashtag normalization and input warnings

This is a hashtag search, not a keyword search. For example, G Cash becomes gcash, #Palawan Pay becomes palawanpay, and Tonik Digital Bank becomes tonikdigitalbank. An Instagram /explore/tags/manila/ URL becomes manila.

Leading #, surrounding whitespace, internal spaces, emoji and symbols are removed; letters are lowercased. Unicode letters, numbers, underscores and attached combining marks are preserved, including Thai and Devanagari vowel marks. Text is normalized to NFC. Only Instagram tag-page URLs are accepted, not profile, post, Reel or third-party URLs. Unsupported punctuation, empty entries, nulls and hashtags longer than 100 characters after normalization are rejected.

Removing emoji or joining words changes the requested hashtag. For example, ランチ🍴 searches for ランチ; emoji-only inputs are rejected. Review the normalized value to confirm your intended search. Duplicate hashtags are searched only once after normalization, before existing plan limits are applied.

Each changed, rejected or duplicate entry generates a warning with its original value, normalized value and reason. A summary appears in the run status. Full details are stored under Storage > Key-value store > INPUT_WARNINGS, not in billable dataset rows.

Mixed valid/invalid inputs process only the valid hashtags. If none remain valid, the run is FAILED with a nonzero exit code and an INVALID_INPUT audit record, without provider requests or result charges. The platform's configured Actor-start fee may still apply. A valid hashtag with no available posts can succeed with zero results.

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🧪 Input Example

{
  "hashtags": [
    "WinterWarmer",
    "Pastry",
    "Coffee",
    "coffeeshop"
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 10
}

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📦 Output Example

[
  {
    "hashtag": "google",
    "link_post": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DJH9MRHxEEO",
    "code": "DJH9MRHxEEO",
    "comment_count": 0,
    "feed_type": "media",
    "like_count": 0,
    "taken_at_date": "2025-05-01T20:26:41+00:00",
    "thumbnail_url": "https://scontent-vie1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/494407291_17848826511453359_8642425327652126936_n.jpg?se=7&stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IkZFRUQuaW1hZ2VfdXJsZ2VuLjEwODB4MTM1MC5zZHIuZjc1NzYxLmRlZmF1bHRfaW1hZ2UifQ&_nc_ht=scontent-vie1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2QFNucrirlSZqtV_W0i7jzs4CdduQ4okoWPfKp5iMHbw8WXCYSkFC6LGivVKau3nAdxX9XPJlQUAMY4gIn0laEdq&_nc_ohc=yzxgR6sGbrgQ7kNvwEk6tSG&_nc_gid=-hxmZTQ-LmHa2iAcX43Y3w&edm=AMKDjl4BAAAA&ccb=7-5&ig_cache_key=MzYyMzEzMzU0OTA5NzY2NDc4Mg%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&oh=00_AfG98j4CfZmDHKpeWE9LlmRWaMdKF5oyKkO7IOSCEYqAPA&oe=6819C6CC&_nc_sid=472314",
    "link_user": "https://www.instagram.com/iafeedoficial",
    "caption.text": "🚨 Escândalo na IA! 🤖 Um novo estudo acusa a popular plataforma de benchmarking Chatbot Arena (LM Arena) de favorecer gigantes da tecnologia como Meta, OpenAI e Google. Pesquisadores alegam que essas empresas puderam testar modelos privadamente e ocultar resultados ruins, manipulando o ranking. 🤯\n\nA LM Arena nega as acusações, mas a controvérsia levanta sérias questões sobre a imparcialidade e transparência na avaliação de IAs. 🤔\n\nQuer saber todos os detalhes dessa polêmica? Confira a matéria completa no link da bio! 🔗\n\n#InteligenciaArtificial #IA #ChatbotArena #LMArena #BenchmarkIA #EticaIA #TransparenciaIA #Tecnologia #NoticiasTech #Cohere #Meta #OpenAI #Google #EscandaloIA",
    "caption.hashtags": [
      "#InteligenciaArtificial",
      "#IA",
      "#ChatbotArena",
      "#LMArena",
      "#BenchmarkIA",
      "#EticaIA",
      "#TransparenciaIA",
      "#Tecnologia",
      "#NoticiasTech",
      "#Cohere",
      "#Meta",
      "#OpenAI",
      "#Google",
      "#EscandaloIA"
    ],
    "user.full_name": "IA Feed",
    "user.id": "73496781358",
    "user.is_private": false,
    "user.is_verified": false,
    "user.profile_pic_url": "https://scontent-vie1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/487946963_677674758040850_4215226236238474359_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e0_s150x150_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-vie1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=102&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2QFNucrirlSZqtV_W0i7jzs4CdduQ4okoWPfKp5iMHbw8WXCYSkFC6LGivVKau3nAdxX9XPJlQUAMY4gIn0laEdq&_nc_ohc=I0qaTxQIvakQ7kNvwHIqLNN&_nc_gid=-hxmZTQ-LmHa2iAcX43Y3w&edm=AMKDjl4BAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_AfHj-n24Jn9ysHhv2_QXr2nuphMqhfxBLdNsEXSZNE-Ksg&oe=6819B0D0&_nc_sid=472314",
    "user.username": "iafeedoficial"
  }
]

🔎 Only the most relevant fields are returned by default — keeping your payloads clean and focused.

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🎯 Key Features

• 📌 Filtered fields: Only receive attributes you care about (e.g. URL, caption, likes).
• ⚡ Fast & lightweight: Optimized for speed and low latency.
• 🧩 Easy to integrate: Works with Python, JavaScript, or any language that supports HTTP.
• 💾 Multiple formats: Data available in JSON (CSV and Excel coming soon).
• 🔐 Privacy-respecting: Only scrapes publicly available content.

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🛠️ Ideal For

• Social media analytics
• Brand monitoring
• Influencer research
• Trend discovery
• Marketing intelligence

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✅ Why Choose This API?

• No complex setup — start scraping in seconds.
• Designed for automation and scale.
• Transparent pricing with generous free tier.
• Focused output for serious data use cases — no clutter, no fluff.

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Get started now and turn hashtags into insights.