📸 Instagram Profiles & Recent Posts — No Login

Extract rich public Instagram profile data and recent post, reel, video, and carousel metadata — without login or browser automation.

📤 What you get

• full name, biography, bio links, bio hashtags/mentions, verification, privacy, category, business/professional flags, public contacts, follower/following/post counts, image, owner ID, and story status;
• recent post shortcode and canonical URL;
• caption, publish time, likes, comments, views, plays, duration, media/product type, dimensions, accessibility caption, image and video URLs;
• complete carousel children, location, coauthors, tagged users, pinned status, and comments-disabled state;
• stable shortcodes plus seenShortcodes and onlyPostsNewerThan for incremental monitoring.

🚀 Popular use cases

• influencer and competitor watchlists;
• follower and engagement snapshots;
• content-change alerts with stable shortcodes;
• brand, caption and campaign research;
• scheduled exports into Sheets, databases, Make or n8n.

💵 Pricing behavior

Pay per successful dataset row: one event for an accessible profile and one event per new post. Invalid inputs, unavailable/private/blocked profiles, filtered dates and already-seen shortcodes are not charged.

⚙️ Example input

{
  "profiles": ["nasa", "https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/"],
  "includeProfile": true,
  "includePosts": true,
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 6,
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "2026-08-01",
  "seenShortcodes": []
}

📥 Complete input reference

Field	Type	Default	Purpose
profiles	array	["nasa"]	Public Instagram usernames or profile URLs.
includeProfile	boolean	true	Biography, bio links, followers, following, category, account flags, public business contacts and profile images.
includePosts	boolean	true	Return timeline posts, reels and carousels with captions, engagement, media, owner, tags, mentions and locations.
maxPostsPerProfile	integer	12	Exact cap on post rows saved per profile.
onlyPostsNewerThan	string	""	Optional inclusive YYYY-MM-DD checkpoint.
seenShortcodes	array	[]	Skip previously collected post shortcodes during scheduled monitoring.
sessionCookie	string	—	Optional sessionid value for profiles Instagram does not serve anonymously.
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy":false}	Optional Apify Proxy configuration for larger runs.
requestDelayMs	integer	900	Delay between profile requests.

📤 Complete output reference

The default dataset is exportable as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS. Fields remain stable for scheduled runs and API integrations.

Field	Type
recordType	string
dataSource	string
username	string
profileUrl	string
fullName	string / null
biography	string / null
biographyHashtags	array
biographyMentions	array
bioLinks	array
externalUrl	string / null
verified	boolean / null
private	boolean / null
followersCount	integer / null
followingCount	integer / null
postsCount	integer / null
category	string / null
isBusinessAccount	boolean / null
isProfessionalAccount	boolean / null
businessEmail	string / null
businessPhone	string / null
businessAddress	string / null
profilePictureUrl	string / null
ownerId	string / null
shortcode	string / null
postId	string / null
postUrl	string / null
postType	string / null
productType	string / null
caption	string / null
hashtags	array
mentions	array
publishedAt	string / null
likesCount	integer / null
commentsCount	integer / null
viewsCount	integer / null
playsCount	integer / null
displayUrl	string / null
videoUrl	string / null
width	integer / null
height	integer / null
children	array
location	object / null
coauthors	array
taggedUsers	array
owner	object / null
scrapedAt	string

🔌 API & integrations

Run this Actor from the Apify Console, API, CLI, MCP, Make, Zapier or n8n. Replace the Actor identifier and token in this template:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/instagram-public-profile-post-monitor/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Results are stored in the run's default dataset and can be forwarded with Apify webhooks or scheduled Tasks.

🔎 Search keywords

Instagram Profiles, Posts, Reels & Carousels — No Login, instagram, profiles, posts, reels, carousels, login, public, profile, post, monitor, Apify Actor, scraper API, structured data, scheduled monitor, automation.

💰 Pricing

Billing is tied to successfully delivered result events. Empty, filtered, duplicate or failed records are not charged as results. Open the Pricing tab for the current per-event rate before starting a run, and use Apify's maximum-charge control to enforce a hard budget.