Apify·Instagram

Instagram API

/apify/instagram-api-scraperasync$0.0058 / result

Scrape and download Instagram posts, profiles, places, hashtags, photos without login. Supports search keywords and URL lists. Download your data as HTML table, JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and RSS feed. Runs as an Apify actor (20–120 s); results are dataset rows.

Charged per returned row plus the flat fee.

Input

directUrlsarray
Add one or more Instagram URLs to scrape. The field is optional, but you need to either use this field or search query below.
resultsTypestring
You can choose to get posts, comments or details from Instagram URLs. Comments can only be scraped from post URLs.❗Please note that the stories type has been deprecated. It used to return reels data, which wasn’t aligned with its purpose. Please use reels instead. (default "posts")
posts, comments, details, mentions, reels, stories
resultsLimitinteger
How many posts or comments (max 50 comments per post) you want to scrape from each Instagram URL. If you set this to 1, you will get a single post from each page.
onlyPostsNewerThanstring
Limit how far back to the history the scraper should go. The date should be in YYYY-MM-DD or full ISO absolute format or in relative format e.g. 1 days, 2 months, 3 years. All time values are taken in UTC timezone
searchstring
Provide a search query which will be used to search Instagram for profiles, hashtags or places.
searchTypestring
What type of pages to search for (you can look for hashtags, profiles or places). (default "hashtag")
user, hashtag, place
searchLimitinteger
How many search results (hashtags, users or places) should be returned.
addParentDataboolean
Only for feed items - add data source to results, i.e. for profile posts metadata is profile, for tag posts metadata is hashtag (default false)

Field	Type	Required	Description
directUrls	array	—	Add one or more Instagram URLs to scrape. The field is optional, but you need to either use this field or search query below.
resultsType	string (posts, comments, details, mentions, reels, stories)	—	You can choose to get posts, comments or details from Instagram URLs. Comments can only be scraped from post URLs.❗Please note that the stories type has been deprecated. It used to return reels data, which wasn’t aligned with its purpose. Please use reels instead. (default "posts")
resultsLimit	integer	—	How many posts or comments (max 50 comments per post) you want to scrape from each Instagram URL. If you set this to 1, you will get a single post from each page.
onlyPostsNewerThan	string	—	Limit how far back to the history the scraper should go. The date should be in YYYY-MM-DD or full ISO absolute format or in relative format e.g. 1 days, 2 months, 3 years. All time values are taken in UTC timezone
search	string	—	Provide a search query which will be used to search Instagram for profiles, hashtags or places.
searchType	string (user, hashtag, place)	—	What type of pages to search for (you can look for hashtags, profiles or places). (default "hashtag")
searchLimit	integer	—	How many search results (hashtags, users or places) should be returned.
addParentData	boolean	—	Only for feed items - add data source to results, i.e. for profile posts metadata is profile, for tag posts metadata is hashtag (default false)

Run it

curl -s https://sooma.dev/v1/run \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOOMA_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"provider":"apify","endpoint":"/apify/instagram-api-scraper","input":{}}'

Or ask your agent: it will call inspect for this schema and run it over MCP.