Instagram Profile Content Scraper — Posts, Reels & Highlights

Pull everything a public Instagram account has published — posts, reels, tagged posts, live stories, or the highlight tray. No login, no cookie, no session.

One field picks the content type. Five types, one Actor.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
profiles	array	—	Required. Accounts to pull from.
scraperType	enum	userPosts	Required. See the table below.
limit	integer	100	Rows per account. 0 pulls everything available.
addonHighlightDetails	boolean	false	Highlights only — swaps each tray row for its full media.

scraperType	Returns
userPosts	Feed posts
userReels	Reels
userTaggedPosts	Posts other people tagged this account in
userStories	Stories live right now
userHighlights	The highlight tray — id, title, cover

{
  "profiles": ["cristiano"],
  "scraperType": "userPosts",
  "limit": 100
}

limit is per account. Three accounts at 100 returns up to 300 rows.

Output

Field	What it holds
pk	Instagram media ID
code	Shortcode — the identifier in a post URL
like_count	Likes
comment_count	Comments
taken_at	When it was posted
media_type	Image, video, or carousel
has_story	Whether a story is live, in Stories mode
title	Highlight title, in Highlights mode
media_count	Items in the highlight, in Highlights mode
enriched	Whether full highlight media was fetched
source_username	Which account this row came from

{
  "pk": "3412987456123456789",
  "code": "DDPp2UWzWEm",
  "like_count": 1842203,
  "comment_count": 12043,
  "taken_at": 1785312000,
  "source_username": "cristiano"
}

Keep code — it's what Instagram Media Engagement takes to get comments and likers.

Tagged posts are the underused one

userTaggedPosts returns posts other people published tagging this account. For a brand that's user-generated content and unpaid mentions, found without a hashtag and without guessing the wording. It's the mode most people don't know is there.

Highlights: the tray, then the media

userHighlights returns the tray by default — one row per highlight with its id, title, and cover image. That's cheap and usually enough to see what an account keeps pinned.

addonHighlightDetails swaps each row for the full highlight media, and bills per highlight. An account with 40 highlights costs 40 extra events. The tray is trimmed to limit before enrichment runs, so you're never charged for rows that wouldn't have been saved.

Questions

Do stories actually work without a login? Only public ones, and only while they're live. userStories returns what's up at the moment the run happens — a run twenty-four hours later returns something different or nothing at all. It's a point-in-time check, not an archive, so schedule it if you need continuity.

Why do reels show up under Posts as well? Instagram puts reels in the main feed and the reels tab both, so the two modes overlap for accounts posting both. Use userReels when you specifically want reels; filtering userPosts on media_type is an approximation.

Why did I get fewer posts than the account has? Either limit capped it, or Instagram stopped serving pages. The feed pages through a bounded window rather than a full archive, so old content on a long-lived account can be out of reach. The log says which happened.

Can I get content from a private account? No. Only public accounts, and no session is used.

What's has_story for? It flags whether a public story is live at run time. Useful for monitoring — checking which accounts in a list are actively posting stories right now, without pulling the story content itself.

Does addonHighlightDetails affect other modes? No. It applies to Highlights only and is ignored elsewhere, so leaving it on won't quietly bill you during a Posts run.

Other Instagram Actors

Actor	Use when
Instagram Media Engagement	You want comments and likers (needs code)
Instagram Hashtag & Keyword Search	You're searching by subject, not account
Instagram Followers & Following	You want the audience, not the content
Instagram User Search	You don't have account names yet

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