# 📸 Instagram Profiles & Recent Posts — No Login (`snuggly_beanie_970/instagram-public-profile-post-monitor`) Actor

📸 Extract public Instagram profile metrics and recent posts without login, cookies or proxies. 📊 Followers, captions, dates, likes, comments, media, locations and coauthors. ✅ Stable shortcodes and incremental checkpoints.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/snuggly\_beanie\_970/instagram-public-profile-post-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Ilia](https://apify.com/snuggly_beanie_970) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.10 / 1,000 instagram recent posts

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## 📸 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

```json
{
  "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:

```bash
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.

# Actor input Schema

## `profiles` (type: `array`):

Public Instagram usernames or profile URLs.

## `includeProfile` (type: `boolean`):

Biography, bio links, followers, following, category, account flags, public business contacts and profile images.

## `includePosts` (type: `boolean`):

Return timeline posts, reels and carousels with captions, engagement, media, owner, tags, mentions and locations.

## `maxPostsPerProfile` (type: `integer`):

Exact cap on post rows saved per profile.

## `onlyPostsNewerThan` (type: `string`):

Optional inclusive YYYY-MM-DD checkpoint.

## `seenShortcodes` (type: `array`):

Skip previously collected post shortcodes during scheduled monitoring.

## `sessionCookie` (type: `string`):

Optional sessionid value for profiles Instagram does not serve anonymously.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify Proxy configuration for larger runs.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Delay between profile requests.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "profiles": [
    "nasa"
  ],
  "includeProfile": true,
  "includePosts": true,
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 12,
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "",
  "seenShortcodes": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  },
  "requestDelayMs": 900
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("snuggly_beanie_970/instagram-public-profile-post-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("snuggly_beanie_970/instagram-public-profile-post-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call snuggly_beanie_970/instagram-public-profile-post-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,snuggly_beanie_970/instagram-public-profile-post-monitor"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/fNUjdOcShDoShiuur/builds/YoIlgZPKfVT2ueML0/openapi.json