Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper – UGC Export

Collect public posts from an Instagram profile's Tagged tab with pagination. Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper accepts plain usernames and returns one dataset row per tagged post with its caption, media, engagement, original author, and the profile that was tagged.

Use it for user-generated content discovery, brand monitoring, campaign research, creator mentions, and public tagged-post datasets without Instagram credentials or cookies.

At a glance	Details
📥 Input	Plain Instagram usernames and pages per profile
📤 Output	Tagged post URL, media, caption, counts, author, tagged profile, and image variants
📄 Pagination	Up to 12 tagged posts per requested page when available
🔐 Login required	No
⚡ Processing	Up to 5 requests concurrently with automatic retries
💾 Delivery	Apify dataset for JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, API, and integrations

What the Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper collects 🏷️

The Actor targets posts in which the selected profile is tagged. This is different from the profile's own feed: the post author may be another account, while tagged_profile identifies the username supplied as input.

Success rows can include:

• Canonical post URL, ID, PK, shortcode, post type, product type, and media type
• Main image, dimensions, and all available image variants
• Caption and caption ID
• Like, comment, and view counts when public
• Accessibility text, commenting state, hidden-count state, and pinned state
• Carousel item count
• Original post author's ID, PK, username, and profile URL
• Full tagged-profile identity, pictures, privacy, and verification

How to scrape tagged Instagram posts 🚀

1. Enter one or more usernames without @.
2. Set pagesPerProfile to the number of Tagged pages to request.
3. Start the Actor.
4. Review each post as an independent dataset row.
5. Export the results or connect them to your workflow.

{
  "inputList": [
    "nike",
    "nasa"
  ],
  "pagesPerProfile": 2
}

Profile URLs are intentionally not accepted. Duplicate usernames and duplicate tagged posts are deduplicated within a run.

Tagged-post output fields 📦

Field	Type	Meaning
input	string	Source profile username
status	string	success or failed
image_url	string or null	Main post image or thumbnail
url	string or null	Canonical Instagram post URL
id, pk, code	string or null	Post identifiers and shortcode
type, product_type	string or null	Normalized and Instagram product types
media_type	integer or null	Instagram numeric media type
caption, caption_id	string or null	Public caption and caption identifier
like_count, comment_count, view_count	integer or null	Public engagement metrics
width, height	integer or null	Media dimensions
accessibility_caption	string or null	Public accessibility description
comments_disabled	boolean or null	Whether comments are disabled
counts_hidden	boolean or null	Whether counts are hidden
is_pinned	boolean or null	Source pinned state when exposed
carousel_media_count	integer or null	Number of carousel children
author	object or null	Account that published the post
tagged_profile	object or null	Profile supplied as input
image_versions	array or null	Available image or thumbnail sizes

Complete successful dataset item:

{
  "input": "nike",
  "status": "success",
  "image_url": "https://instagram.example/tagged-post.jpg",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/EXAMPLE123/",
  "id": "1234567890123456789_2002",
  "pk": "1234567890123456789",
  "code": "EXAMPLE123",
  "type": "image",
  "product_type": "feed",
  "media_type": 1,
  "caption": "A public post featuring Nike",
  "caption_id": "987654321",
  "like_count": 3400,
  "comment_count": 76,
  "view_count": null,
  "width": 1080,
  "height": 1350,
  "accessibility_caption": "Runner wearing sports shoes",
  "comments_disabled": false,
  "counts_hidden": false,
  "is_pinned": false,
  "carousel_media_count": 0,
  "author": {
    "id": "2002",
    "pk": "2002",
    "username": "examplecreator",
    "profile_url": "https://www.instagram.com/examplecreator/"
  },
  "tagged_profile": {
    "profile_picture_url": "https://instagram.example/nike.jpg",
    "profile_picture_url_hd": "https://instagram.example/nike-hd.jpg",
    "username": "nike",
    "name": "Nike",
    "id": "13460080",
    "pk": "13460080",
    "profile_url": "https://www.instagram.com/nike/",
    "is_verified": true,
    "is_private": false
  },
  "image_versions": [
    {
      "url": "https://instagram.example/tagged-post-1080.jpg",
      "width": 1080,
      "height": 1350
    }
  ]
}

Complete failed dataset item:

{
  "input": "unavailable_profile",
  "status": "failed",
  "image_url": null,
  "url": null,
  "id": null,
  "pk": null,
  "code": null,
  "type": null,
  "product_type": null,
  "media_type": null,
  "caption": null,
  "caption_id": null,
  "like_count": null,
  "comment_count": null,
  "view_count": null,
  "width": null,
  "height": null,
  "accessibility_caption": null,
  "comments_disabled": null,
  "counts_hidden": null,
  "is_pinned": null,
  "carousel_media_count": null,
  "author": null,
  "tagged_profile": null,
  "image_versions": null
}

Instagram CDN image URLs are temporary. Download authorized assets promptly if permanent retention is required.

Input and pagination settings ⚙️

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Rules
inputList	array of strings	Yes	None	At least one plain Instagram username
pagesPerProfile	integer	No	1	Minimum 1

Each requested page can expose up to 12 tagged posts. The actual number may be smaller because Instagram reaches the end of the feed, returns overlapping entries, or hides unavailable content. Page count controls pagination attempts, not a guaranteed row total.

Results are saved page by page, protecting earlier successful output if a later continuation request fails.

Tagged Instagram data use cases 🎯

User-generated content discovery

Find public posts created by customers, fans, publishers, and creators that tag a brand or account.

Campaign monitoring

Review tagged content around launches, events, sponsorships, ambassador programs, and hashtag campaigns.

Creator research

Identify authors who tag relevant public profiles and qualify their posts by visible engagement.

Brand safety and moderation

Send captions, media references, author identity, and tagging context into an authorized review workflow.

Social proof collection

Build a structured shortlist of public tagged posts for manual permission, curation, or reporting.

Pricing and saved results 💰

The Actor's Pricing tab shows the current pricing model and rate. It is the authoritative source because Store pricing can change.

Under dataset-item pricing:

• Each unique tagged post saved as success is one result.
• An invalid or unavailable username, or a page that repeatedly fails, can create a failed result.
• Request retries do not create separate rows.
• More requested pages can produce more billable post rows.

Two full pages can return up to approximately 24 unique tagged posts for one profile, but Instagram may provide fewer.

Instagram Tagged Posts API 🔌

Replace $ACTOR_ID with the Actor ID from its API tab and $APIFY_TOKEN with your token.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/$ACTOR_ID/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"inputList":["nike"],"pagesPerProfile":2}'

Automate runs with schedules and webhooks, then deliver datasets to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, cloud storage, BI systems, or custom applications.

Reliability, retries, and data boundaries ⚠️

The Actor handles up to five requests concurrently and retries temporary network failures, throttling, selected HTTP errors, timeouts, and blocked redirects. Invalid username syntax is not retried unnecessarily.

One bad profile does not stop the remaining batch. A complete Actor run can still fail for infrastructure-level issues such as startup failure, unavailable Apify storage, or an unrecoverable dataset save error.

Tagged feeds are controlled by Instagram. Private, deleted, renamed, restricted, empty, or login-gated profiles may not expose results. Individual posts can disappear, and ordering can change between runs. Optional counts and accessibility fields may be null.

Frequently asked questions ❓

Are these posts published by the input profile?

Not necessarily. They are posts where the input profile is tagged. The publishing account is stored in author.

Can I submit profile URLs?

No. Use plain usernames without @.

Does the Actor return every historical tagged post?

It paginates the public Tagged feed up to the requested page count. Instagram decides what is publicly available and whether a next page exists.

Does it require an Instagram login?

No Instagram credentials or cookies are required.

Does carousel_media_count include every slide's details?

This feed Actor reports the child count when exposed. Use Post Details or Carousel Details to retrieve deeper child-media data for selected URLs.

Why can a valid profile have no rows?

It may have no public tagged content or Instagram may restrict that feed. The Actor records failure where the source cannot provide usable results.

Support, responsible use, and related actors 🛟

For a reproducible problem, provide the run ID, approximate time, page count, and a safe public username through the support channel. Never publish tokens or proxy credentials.

Use collected public data responsibly. Follow applicable privacy, copyright, data-protection, contractual, and platform rules, especially before outreach or republishing user-generated content.