Instagram Post Data Scraper — Instagram Reel Data by URL

Paste the links of the Instagram posts and reels you want and get one row each, with everything the post exposes: play count, saves, reshares, likes, comments, video length and codec, the three video renditions, the audio track, co-authors, tagged accounts, location, carousel slides, owner and the caption. No login, no cookies, no proxy to configure. Nothing is charged for starting a run, and a post we could not deliver is never charged.

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• Actor id: steadyfetch/instagram-post-details-scraper
• Input: { "postUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdG2ps5y5-l/"] } — the one field you have to set. A bare code ("DdG2ps5y5-l") or a numeric media id works too.
• Cap the bill: set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run (a run option, not Actor input), e.g. 0.50 — the run stops when it reaches it, and stops reading, not just billing.

What you get

One row per post, with everything the post exposes at one price — there is no second charge for "details":

Column	What it holds
shortCode · url · type · productType	the post's own code, its permalink, image / video / carousel, and whether it is a reel (clips)
caption · hashtags · mentions	the caption, and the tags and @handles pulled out of it
takenAt	when it was posted, ISO-8601 UTC
likeCount · commentCount · playCount · saveCount · reshareCount	engagement, including the two counts a feed listing does not carry
countsHiddenByOwner	true when the owner has hidden their like and view counts — so a small likeCount is never mistaken for the truth
videoDuration · videoCodec · hasAudio · videoRenditions	the video's length, codec, and every rendition Instagram serves, each with its own width, height and URL
audioTitle · audioArtist · audioIsOriginal · audioIsExplicit · audioDuration	the track the reel is set to, whether it is a licensed song or the creator's own audio
coauthors · taggedUsers	the accounts sharing the post, and the accounts tagged in it
locationName · locationId · latitude · longitude	the place it was tagged in
carouselCount · carouselMedia	how many slides, and one entry per slide with its own media links
ownerUsername · ownerFullName · ownerId · ownerIsVerified · ownerIsPrivate	who posted it
displayUrl · videoUrl · videoUrlExpiresAt	the media links, and when the signed link stops working
charged · status · statusReason	whether this row was billed, and why, so your invoice reconciles from the dataset itself

Media links are signed and time-limited by Instagram: videoUrlExpiresAt tells you exactly how long each one stays fetchable, so download what you need in the same session. The requesting network address is stripped out of every link before it reaches your dataset.

What a row looks like

One delivered row from a real run — a reel posted by reuters, read 2026-09-12. One post or reel is one post-details charge, whatever is on it: the play count, the audio track, the three video renditions and the carousel slides all ride the same row. Media links are signed and time-limited by Instagram, so they are shown here as placeholders.

{
  "postId": "3983326735612528547",
  "shortCode": "DdHno-8gEej",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DdHno-8gEej/",
  "type": "video",
  "productType": "clips",
  "caption": "As New York City marks 25 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, a former principal of an elementary school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Dan Feigelson, reflected on how educators helped kids cope in the days and years that followed, including a student who lost a parent.\n \n 🔗 Read more at our link in bio",
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "takenAt": "2026-09-10T20:15:08.000Z",
  "takenAtTimestamp": 1789071308,
  "likeCount": 1575,
  "commentCount": 36,
  "playCount": 61680,
  "videoDuration": 70.421,
  "displayUrl": "https://…",
  "videoUrl": "https://…",
  "videoUrlExpiresAt": "2026-09-14T01:07:51.000Z",
  "carouselCount": null,
  "dimensionsWidth": 1080,
  "dimensionsHeight": 1920,
  "ownerId": null,
  "ownerUsername": "reuters",
  "ownerFullName": "Reuters",
  "ownerIsVerified": true,
  "taggedUsers": [],
  "coauthors": [],
  "locationName": null,
  "locationId": null,
  "isPinned": false,
  "isSponsored": false,
  "postSource": "post-details",
  "profileHandle": null,
  "profileFullName": null,
  "profileFollowers": null,
  "profileIsVerified": null,
  "profilePostCount": null,
  "audioTitle": "Original audio",
  "audioArtist": "reuters",
  "audioIsOriginal": true,
  "audioIsExplicit": false,
  "audioId": "28153942414290931",
  "audioDuration": 70.403,
  "viewCountInstagram": 61680,
  "saveCount": null,
  "reshareCount": 40,
  "countsHiddenByOwner": false,
  "hasAudio": true,
  "videoCodec": "av01.0.05M.08.0.111.01.01.01.0",
  "videoRenditions": [
    {"url":"https://…","width":720,"height":1280,"type":101},
    {"url":"https://…","width":720,"height":1280,"type":102},
    {"url":"https://…","width":720,"height":1280,"type":103}
  ],
  "carouselMedia": [],
  "latitude": null,
  "longitude": null,
  "ownerIsPrivate": false,
  "captionIsEdited": false,
  "commentsDisabled": false,
  "source": "instagram",
  "isVideo": true,
  "input": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DdHno-8gEej/",
  "inputKind": "code",
  "sourceIndex": 0,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-12T14:47:58.490Z",
  "charged": true,
  "status": "delivered",
  "retryable": false,
  "statusReason": null,
  "#k": "3983326735612528547",
  "#ce": {"post-details":1},
  "#ask": {"delivered":1}
}

What to paste

Every shape Instagram serves for a single post is read, and each is turned into the post's own code before anything is fetched:

• https://www.instagram.com/p/CODE/
• https://www.instagram.com/reel/CODE/ and /reels/CODE/
• https://www.instagram.com/tv/CODE/
• https://www.instagram.com/username/reel/CODE/
• the bare code, DdHaXadN9KF, or the numeric media id

Tracking parameters on the end of a link are ignored. A whole block of links pasted into one box is opened out into one entry per link. A share link (/share/…) hides the code behind a redirect — open it in a browser and copy the address it lands on.

Price

One charged event, post-details, and it lands only on a post that was actually delivered.

Apify plan	Per post	Per 1,000 posts
Free plan	$0.006	$6.00
Bronze	$0.0045	$4.50
Silver	$0.0036	$3.60
Gold and above	$0.003	$3.00 per 1,000

Platform usage is included in that price — there is no separate compute bill on top, and no start fee: a run that reads one post pays for one post. Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run and it is a hard ceiling on reading as well as on billing: the run stops cleanly under it and names every link it did not reach.

Honest rows: what "not charged" actually means

Every run closes its own books. A link that did not produce a post leaves an uncharged row saying which of eight things happened, and none of them is billed:

• not_found — Instagram has nothing at that link: the post was deleted, made private, or the link is wrong. A definitive answer, not a failure.
• private_account — the owner is private or the post is restricted, so nothing is served without a follow.
• user_input — the value is not a link to one post, and the row says exactly what to paste instead (a profile link and a hashtag link are each answered by name).
• stopped_at_limit — one of your own limits, or the run clock, stopped it first. The row names which, and the link it did not read.
• vendor_unavailable — the read did not go through. Temporary, says nothing about the post, and a re-run is the fix.
• source_refused — the code or media id is not one Instagram issues, so the read was refused outright. The same every time, so a re-run cannot fix it — check the value against the post.
• unsupported_shape — Instagram answered in a shape this actor does not read yet. That is on us, it will answer the same way on a re-run, and the Issues tab is how you get it supported.
• vendor_budget — this actor reached its own monthly collection allowance and stopped rather than reading more.

A link that names a post already read in the same run ships as duplicate: the post is delivered once, charged once, and the repeat is named rather than dropped in silence, so a 50-link list still reconciles against the rows you get. That holds whichever way you name it — a post's link and its numeric media id are the same post, and naming it both ways still buys it once. The last row of every run is a receipt: delivered, asked for, what stopped it, and the charged-event totals.

How often this data changes

Constantly, and that is the reason this actor has no memory of what it gave you. Play counts, likes, comments, saves and reshares on a live post move by the minute; on a reel that is spreading they move by the second. Handing back a row this actor delivered yesterday would be handing back a stale number, so every run re-reads every link you give it and charges for what it re-read. That is deliberate: this actor exists for the second run.

What that means in practice — a post's numbers are usually worth re-reading after an hour while it is young, daily for its first week, and weekly after that; the caption, media, audio and tagged accounts almost never change after the first hour. If you are watching a set of posts, schedule the run at the interval you actually need and set maxTotalChargeUsd so a schedule can never surprise you.

Reliability

The data comes from a licensed data feed rather than from scraping Instagram's own web pages, which is why there is nothing to log into and nothing to configure. When that feed cannot answer, the run says so on an uncharged row and finishes successfully — a failed read is never billed and never dressed up as a deleted post.

Related actors

• Every post published under a hashtag: Instagram Hashtag Scraper — https://apify.com/steadyfetch/instagram-hashtag-scraper
• One account's own posts: Instagram Profile Posts Scraper — https://apify.com/steadyfetch/instagram-profile-posts
• The spoken words inside a reel: Instagram Reel Transcript Scraper — https://apify.com/steadyfetch/instagram-reel-transcript-scraper
• The comments under a post: Instagram Comments Scraper — https://apify.com/steadyfetch/instagram-comments-scraper

Limits and good manners

Your settings are never refused for being too big. This actor delivers up to 5,000 posts per run (resultsLimit) and runs for up to 1 hour (maxRunSeconds, minimum 30 seconds). Ask for more than that — or for a shorter clock — and the run still starts: it continues at the nearest limit and leaves one uncharged row saying what you asked for and what bound it. Nothing is refused before it starts.

Only public posts are returned. Instagram serves a fixed set of fields for a post and this actor returns all of them — it does not add anything Instagram does not publish, so a column can be null simply because that post has no such value (a photo has no play count, a post with no music has no audio title). The list of accounts who liked a post is deliberately not offered: Instagram caps that list at a sample of about a hundred whatever the real number is, and a sample sold under the name "likers" would be a false promise. This actor may stop working if Instagram changes how the data is served; if it does, failed items are never charged.

Support

Something off, or a column you need that is not here? Open an issue on the Issues tab — we usually reply within a couple of hours.

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