Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper: Videos, Carousels & Reels Info

Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper — Reels, Carousels and Video URLs

This Apify Actor scrapes Instagram's Tagged tab for any public profile and returns every post where that account was tagged by someone else, as structured JSON. Each row carries a direct videoUrl, videoDuration and playCount for every Reel, a normalized carouselChildren breakdown for every multi-slide post, plus musicInfo, like_count, comment_count and permalink. Brand/UGC managers, social monitoring agencies, and trend researchers use it to pull tagged content without hand-parsing Instagram's raw JSON. No login is required, and results are ready to feed straight into a reporting or media pipeline.

What is Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper: Videos, Carousels & Reels Info?

It is an Apify Actor that scrapes the public Tagged tab of one or more Instagram profiles — the posts where someone else tagged that account, not the account's own feed — and returns each post as a normalized JSON record. No Instagram login, session cookie, or API key is required: it runs fully logged-out using browser-signature (TLS) impersonation, with an automatic Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy fallback since Instagram blocks Apify's datacenter IP ranges.

• Discovers posts by target profile: enter usernames, @handles, or full profile URLs, one or many per run (targetProfiles)
• Returns identity and engagement fields for every post: pk, code, permalink, like_count, comment_count, view_count
• Resolves video/Reel-specific data per post: a direct playable videoUrl, videoDuration, and playCount
• Normalizes carousel posts into a clean carouselChildren[] array (id, code, url, dimensions, display image, per-slide play count) instead of raw unparsed JSON
• Extracts Reels music/original-audio identification (musicInfo) when Instagram's payload carries it
• Filters results down to one physical format — video, carousel, or photo — via mediaTypeFilter, and exports through Apify's standard dataset (JSON, CSV, Excel, etc.)

What data can I extract with Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper?

Every tagged post is returned as one flat JSON row combining post identity, engagement, media URLs, and (when applicable) video/carousel/music detail:

Field	Example Value	Use Case
pk	"3701234567890123456"	Unique post ID for deduplication across runs
id	"3701234567890123456_9876543210"	Instagram's compound media ID
code	"DAbCdEfGhIj"	Shortcode used to build the post's URL
media_type	2	Numeric physical type: 1=photo, 2=video/Reel, 8=carousel
product_type	"clips"	Distinguishes Reels (clips) from ordinary feed video/photo (feed)
queriedUsername	"cristiano"	Which target profile this tagged post belongs to (keeps multi-profile runs from mixing)
permalink / postUrl	"https://www.instagram.com/p/DAbCdEfGhIj/"	Direct, clickable link to the post
postedAt / takenAt	"2026-06-01T14:22:03.000Z"	When the post was actually published
scrapedAt	"2026-07-25T09:10:00.000Z"	When this row was collected
user	{"pk":"123","username":"someposter"}	Who tagged the target (the poster, not the target profile)
owner	{"id":"123"}	Post owner's numeric ID
caption	{"text":"Amazing day! @cristiano"}	Caption text for keyword/content analysis
accessibility_caption	"Photo by someposter"	Instagram's auto-generated alt text
like_count	92345	Engagement volume
comment_count	1120	Engagement volume
view_count	184203	Raw view count from the listing payload (also the playCount fallback source)
display_uri / thumbnailUrl / thumbnails	full-size / smallest / mid-size CDN URLs	Real image URLs computed from image_versions2.candidates — never a hardcoded null
image_versions2	{"candidates":[...]}	Raw image candidate list, largest-first
original_height / original_width	1350 / 1080	Media pixel dimensions

Video, carousel and Reels media fields

Every Reel/video post (media_type == 2) additionally carries videoUrl (a direct, playable CDN link), videoDuration (seconds, parsed from the post's own DASH manifest), and playCount (falls back to the listing's view_count when Instagram's anonymous detail page doesn't expose a play count). Every carousel post (media_type == 8) carries carousel_media_count and a normalized carouselChildren[] array — one object per slide with id, code, url, dimensions, displayUrl, and videoPlayCount — alongside the original unparsed carousel_media field for compatibility. Reels also carry musicInfo (audioCanonicalId, audioType, originalSoundInfo) when the post's payload includes original-audio or licensed-track metadata; it is null on plain photos and posts with no detectable audio track.

Profile and media-type targeting fields

Three fields drive how you scope a run: queriedUsername tells you which target profile a row came from once results from several profiles land in one dataset; media_type (numeric) and product_type ("feed"/"clips") tell you exactly which physical format and sub-format a row is, which matters once you've set mediaTypeFilter to narrow the run to one format at collection time rather than filtering after the fact.

How does Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper differ from the official Instagram API?

The Instagram Graph API's /{ig-user-id}/tags edge returns media where an account was tagged — but only for the Instagram Business or Creator account that owns the access token, not for any arbitrary public profile you don't manage (Meta for Developers, IG User reference).

Feature	Instagram Graph API	Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper
Account requirement	Target must be converted to a Business/Creator account, linked to a Facebook Page, and pass Meta app review	Works on any public profile — nothing to own or convert
Tagged-post access	/tags edge only returns tags for the token-owning account	Returns tagged posts for any public username you enter
Authentication	OAuth access token + ads_management/business_management scope	No login, session, or API key
Video/Reel media	Returned per the app's approved review scope	Direct videoUrl, videoDuration, playCount per Reel
Carousel media	Raw children edge, unparsed	Normalized carouselChildren[] per slide
Setup time	App creation, Page linking, review submission	Paste usernames and run

Can I pull tagged posts for someone else's Instagram account with the official API?

No. The Graph API's tagging surface is scoped to the account that owns the access token — there is no official endpoint for fetching the tagged posts of a competitor, influencer, or any account you don't administer. That restriction exists because Meta ties the Graph API to accounts you can prove ownership/management of via a linked Facebook Page and app review, not to arbitrary public browsing. This Actor covers that gap by reading the same Tagged tab a logged-out browser sees for any public profile, resolving video/carousel/music detail per post via each post's own detail page.

Use the Graph API when you manage the account yourself and need an officially supported, ToS-compliant channel for your own data (e.g., publishing or moderating your own tags). Use this Actor when you need tagged-post data for public profiles you don't administer, without an app review process.

How to use data extracted from Instagram?

Content research and repurposing

UGC and content teams run this Actor against their own or a partner's profile with mediaTypeFilter set to video, then sort the results by playCount to shortlist the best-performing Reels people tagged them in. videoUrl gives a direct link for review or download, videoDuration flags clip length for repurposing into shorter cuts, and musicInfo surfaces which audio track is driving a trend worth reusing.

Brand monitoring agencies

Agencies managing several client accounts run one job per reporting cycle across all client targetProfiles, and use queriedUsername to split results back out per client without mixing runs. Comparing carouselChildren[].videoPlayCount and like_count/comment_count across clients turns into a recurring tagged-content benchmark they can hand to each account team.

Market and trend research

Researchers pull tagged posts for a set of brand or niche profiles and aggregate playCount, like_count, and musicInfo.audioCanonicalId across the results to see which audio tracks and creators recur across a niche's tagged content, spotting emerging trends before they peak.

AI agents and automated pipelines

Agent frameworks call this Actor as a tool to fetch tagged-post context — caption text, engagement counts, and permalink — for a target brand, feeding it into a RAG pipeline or an automated brand-monitoring agent that needs fresh, structured Instagram context on demand rather than a manual export.

🔼 Input sample

All four inputs are optional — the Actor ships with working defaults for every field.

Parameter	Required	Type	Description	Example Value
targetProfiles	No	array	Instagram usernames, full profile URLs, or @handles to fetch tagged posts for. Multiple profiles are processed in one run. (Also accepts the base actor's usernames key.)	["mrbeast", "https://www.instagram.com/cristiano/", "@leomessi"]
maxPostsPerProfile	No	integer (0–10000)	Max tagged posts to collect per profile. 0 = collect all available. Default 10. (Also accepts maxItems.)	100
mediaTypeFilter	No	string (enum: all, video, carousel, photo)	Restrict results to one media type. all keeps every post (default).	"video"
proxyConfiguration	No	object	Apify proxy settings. Left empty, the scraper falls back to a fresh Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy automatically — no hardcoded credentials. (Also accepts proxy_configuration.)	{"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]}

{
  "targetProfiles": ["mrbeast", "https://www.instagram.com/cristiano/"],
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 20,
  "mediaTypeFilter": "all"
}

Common pitfall: maxPostsPerProfile: 0 means "collect everything available," but it is not literally unbounded — the Actor's own pagination stops after 100 pages of 12 posts each (roughly 1,200 posts per profile), whichever comes first against Instagram's tagged feed running out. On a high-volume profile, don't assume 0 returns the entire historical tagged feed.

🔽 Output sample

Every row is typed, normalized JSON on a consistent schema, and is available through Apify's standard dataset export formats (JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS). Below is a full record for a tagged Reel/video post.

{
  "pk": "3701234567890123456",
  "media_type": 2,
  "code": "DAbCdEfGhIj",
  "id": "3701234567890123456_9876543210",
  "owner": { "id": "1234567" },
  "accessibility_caption": "Photo by someposter, standing on a beach",
  "caption": { "pk": "18123456789012345", "text": "Amazing day with @cristiano! #throwback" },
  "carousel_media_count": null,
  "display_uri": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/display.jpg",
  "carousel_media": null,
  "image_versions2": { "candidates": [{ "url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/display.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1350 }] },
  "product_type": "clips",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/thumb.jpg",
  "thumbnails": [],
  "user": { "pk": "1234567", "username": "someposter", "id": "1234567" },
  "like_count": 92345,
  "like_and_view_counts_disabled": false,
  "comment_count": 1120,
  "comments_disabled": false,
  "view_count": 184203,
  "original_height": 1920,
  "original_width": 1080,
  "__typename": "XDTMediaDict",
  "postedAt": "2026-06-01T14:22:03.000Z",
  "takenAt": "2026-06-01T14:22:03Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-25T09:10:00.000Z",
  "queriedUsername": "cristiano",
  "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DAbCdEfGhIj/",
  "postUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DAbCdEfGhIj/",
  "videoUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/video.mp4",
  "videoDuration": 14.2,
  "playCount": 184203,
  "carouselChildren": [],
  "musicInfo": {
    "audioCanonicalId": "182736451920",
    "audioType": "original_sound",
    "originalSoundInfo": { "original_audio_title": "original audio" }
  }
}

Every returned row is billed as one charged row_result event — there is no separate uncharged error/accounting row to filter out, since the Actor only pushes data once it has successfully converted a post.

How do you filter and target specific posts?

This Actor exposes three real controls, and each changes what lands in your dataset rather than just how it's labeled after the fact. Query precision comes from targetProfiles: it accepts a raw username, an @handle, or a full profile URL, so you don't need to normalize input format yourself, and you can list several profiles in one run — every row is stamped with queriedUsername so a multi-profile run never mixes one client's or brand's results into another's. Media-type narrowing comes from mediaTypeFilter, applied during collection rather than as a post-hoc filter you'd otherwise have to run yourself on the raw dataset: setting it to video keeps only Reels/video posts (populating videoUrl/videoDuration/playCount/musicInfo), carousel keeps only multi-slide posts (populating carouselChildren[]), and photo keeps single images only — useful when you only want, say, downloadable Reel links and don't want carousel or photo rows diluting the same dataset. Volume control comes from maxPostsPerProfile: it caps how deep the run goes per profile, and setting it to 0 collects everything available up to the Actor's own internal pagination ceiling of roughly 1,200 posts per profile (100 pages of 12 posts each), rather than being truly unlimited on very high-volume accounts. There are no quality thresholds on this Actor — no minimum-likes or minimum-play-count filter exists in the schema. Targeting here is entirely about which profile, which media format, and how many posts — combine all three to keep a run tightly scoped instead of pulling everything and filtering downstream yourself.

{ "targetProfiles": ["mrbeast"], "mediaTypeFilter": "video", "maxPostsPerProfile": 50 }

{ "targetProfiles": ["nike", "adidas"], "mediaTypeFilter": "carousel", "maxPostsPerProfile": 0 }

{ "targetProfiles": ["brand1", "brand2", "brand3"], "mediaTypeFilter": "all", "maxPostsPerProfile": 10 }

▶️ Want to try other Instagram scrapers?

Scraper Name	What it extracts
Instagram Tagged & Mentions Posts Scraper By Hashtag & Related Profiles	Tagged/mentioned posts plus optional hashtag/campaign discovery (authenticated) and real related-profile network expansion — broader discovery, no video/carousel-specific enrichment
Instagram Mentions Scraper: Sentiment Analysis	Inbound @-mentions with keyless caption sentiment scoring, topic/hashtag extraction, and optional AI enrichment
Instagram Single Reels Scraper	Full detail for individual Reel URLs — caption, engagement, video/thumbnail URLs, music metadata, and comments
Instagram Reels Scraper With Engagement Analytics	A creator's own Reels feed with co-author/sponsor detection and derived engagement-rate, velocity, and views-per-follower analytics
Instagram Hashtag Scraper: Content Planner	Turns a hashtag into a best-time-to-post histogram plus recurring caption keywords/themes (authenticated)

How to extract Instagram data programmatically

This Actor runs as a standard Apify Actor call — one REST request with your API token, JSON input, and a JSON dataset back.

Python example

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<APIFY_API_TOKEN>")

run_input = {
    "targetProfiles": ["cristiano"],
    "mediaTypeFilter": "video",
    "maxPostsPerProfile": 20,
}
run = client.actor("<YOUR_USERNAME>/instagram-tagged-posts-scraper-videos-carousels-and-reels-info").call(run_input=run_input)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["permalink"], item["videoUrl"], item["playCount"])

MCP for AI agents

This Actor is reachable through Apify's own hosted MCP server. Connect an MCP client to https://mcp.apify.com (OAuth or an Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN> header), or run it locally with npx @apify/actors-mcp-server (with APIFY_TOKEN set), preloading this Actor by its store ID (<your-username>/instagram-tagged-posts-scraper-videos-carousels-and-reels-info). A brand-monitoring agent can call it as a tool to pull a client's latest tagged Reels and carousels on demand. Compatible with Claude, Claude Code, and other MCP-aware agent frameworks.

Export to spreadsheets or CRM

Apify's dataset view exports directly to CSV or Excel from the Console, or via the API's ?format=csv parameter. Map queriedUsername, permalink, like_count, comment_count, videoUrl, and playCount straight into spreadsheet columns, or into custom fields on a CRM/reporting tool that ingests CSV imports.

Is it legal to scrape Instagram tagged posts?

Yes — scraping publicly visible Instagram posts, including the public Tagged tab, is generally lawful, since this Actor only reads what a logged-out browser can already see. That said, tagged posts routinely contain personal data: usernames, captions, and identifiable content tied to the tagged individual and the poster. If you store or process this data in the EU/UK or about EU/UK or California residents, GDPR and CCPA govern your lawful basis for collecting, storing, and using it — public availability does not by itself exempt you from those obligations. Keep collection proportionate to your stated purpose and avoid retaining data longer than needed. Consult legal counsel for commercial applications involving bulk storage of personal data.

❓ FAQ

What happens if a tagged post is later deleted or un-tagged? The Actor reflects Instagram's live Tagged tab at the moment you run it — a deleted post or a removed tag simply won't appear in your next run. There is no explicit "removed" flag; the Actor doesn't diff between runs itself.

Can I get engagement metrics alongside the tagged posts? Yes — like_count, comment_count, and view_count/playCount are returned on the same row as every post, at no extra pagination cost; there's no separate metrics-only endpoint to call.

How accurate is the video URL and play count data? It reflects Instagram's own public payload at scrape time. playCount specifically falls back to the listing's view_count when the anonymous post-detail page doesn't expose a dedicated play count for that post — the Actor never fabricates a number when Instagram's own surface doesn't provide one.

How many tagged posts can I get per run? Up to maxPostsPerProfile (max 10000) per profile, or 0 for "all available" — bounded internally by the Actor's own pagination ceiling of 100 pages of 12 posts each (roughly 1,200 posts per profile).

How do I get only Reels/video or only carousel posts? Set mediaTypeFilter to "video" or "carousel". It's applied during collection, not as a post-hoc filter, so the media-type breakdown of your dataset matches your setting exactly.

Is scraping Instagram's public data itself legally settled? Courts have generally distinguished scraping publicly accessible web data from unauthorized-access claims — most notably hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn (9th Cir. 2019, on remand after the Supreme Court's 2021 Van Buren decision, appeal resolved 2022), which found scraping public profile data does not violate the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. This doesn't override a platform's own Terms of Service, which is a separate, contractual question.

Does this work with Claude, ChatGPT, and AI agent frameworks? Yes — it's reachable through Apify's hosted MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) for MCP-aware clients like Claude, and callable as a plain HTTP/REST endpoint by any agent framework via the Apify API.

How does this compare to other Instagram tagged-post scrapers? Its source-level differentiator is resolving video/Reel/music fields via a per-post detail-page fallback (since the tagged-feed listing itself omits taken_at, video_versions, and music metadata) and normalizing carousel children into a stable shape, rather than leaving that data null or as raw unparsed JSON. No third-party competitor pricing or speed claims are made here, since none were independently verified at the time of writing.

Can I use this without an Instagram API key or developer account? Yes — no Instagram login, session cookie, or API key is required. You only need an Apify account to run the Actor itself.

Conclusion

Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper: Videos, Carousels & Reels Info turns any public profile's Tagged tab into structured JSON — with the direct video URLs, normalized carousel breakdowns, and music info that a plain tagged-posts feed leaves null or unparsed. It's built for UGC/content teams, brand-monitoring agencies, and trend researchers who need tagged-post data for accounts they don't administer, without an Instagram login or Graph API app review. Set your target profiles and media-type filter, and run it directly from the Actor's page on Apify.