Instagram Posts Scraper Lowcost (0.3$/1K 🤑)
Pricing
from $0.30 / 1,000 posts
Cost-optimized Instagram scraper for public profiles. Extract posts, captions, engagement metrics, coauthors, and media without authentication. HTTP-only (no browser), 10x cheaper than alternatives. Supports batch scraping with residential proxies and smart rate limiting.
pk
Optional
Instagram media primary key, as a string.
id
Optional
Source media identifier, which may include an author-ID suffix.
code
Optional
Post shortcode used to construct its Instagram URL.
taken_at
Optional
Post publication timestamp in Unix seconds.
media_type
Optional
Instagram media type: 1 for an image, 2 for a video, or 8 for a carousel.
product_type
Optional
Source product classification, such as feed or clips, when supplied.
caption
Optional
Cleaned caption containing only its identifier and text when available.
{ "pk": "18012345678901234", "text": "An example sunset #example"}like_count
Optional
Number of likes reported by Instagram; an absent count is not replaced with zero.
comment_count
Optional
Number of comments reported by Instagram; comment text is not scraped.
view_count
Optional
Reported video view count, only when supplied by the source.
play_count
Optional
Reported video play count, only when Instagram provides it publicly.
video_duration
Optional
Video duration in seconds, only when Instagram provides it publicly.
original_width
Optional
Original media width in pixels when reported.
original_height
Optional
Original media height in pixels when reported.
user
Optional
Cleaned author information supplied with the post.
{ "pk": "123456789", "username": "exampleuser", "full_name": "Example Author", "is_verified": false, "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/example-profile.jpg"}owner
Optional
Cleaned owner information when Instagram supplies a separate owner object.
{ "pk": "123456789", "username": "exampleuser", "full_name": "Example Author"}carousel_media
Optional
Cleaned carousel children with individual media URLs, dimensions, and tags when available.
[ { "pk": "3284567890123456790", "media_type": 1, "image_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/example-carousel.jpg" }]location
Optional
Unmodified source location value. The parser types it as unknown, so its JSON shape and optional keys are not constrained.
image_url
Optional
URL selected from the first available image candidate; raw image candidates are not normally exported.
video_url
Optional
URL selected from the first available video variant; absent on non-video media.
scraped_username
Optional
Normalized input profile username whose feed was scraped.
scraped_at
Optional
Unix-seconds timestamp captured at the start of this profile scraping attempt.
post_url
Optional
Instagram post URL constructed from the shortcode.
newer_than_cutoff
Optional
Resolved newerThan date filter in Unix seconds, or null when no cutoff is configured.
newer_than_cutoff_iso
Optional
Resolved newerThan date filter as an ISO date-time string, or null when no cutoff is configured.
is_newer_than_cutoff
Optional
Whether taken_at is strictly greater than the cutoff: always true with a cutoff, since older posts are not exported; null without a cutoff.
is_pinned
Optional
Whether the scraped profile pinned this post on its grid. Pinned posts are exported at their publication date, not at the top.