Instagram Posts Scraper

Find out which posts actually work. Pull every post from any list of Instagram accounts with full captions, likes, comments, video views, media URLs, tagged users, collaborators and paid-partnership flags. No Instagram login, no cookies, no API key.

Run it on Apify →

What you get

For each post:

• Engagement: likeCount, commentCount and videoViewCount, so you can rank posts by what people responded to.
• Content: the full caption with hashtags and mentions, mediaType (image, video or carousel), timestamp and location.
• Media: displayUrl, thumbnailUrl, videoUrl, and every carousel slide in children.
• People: taggedUsers, coauthors and the isPaidPartnership flag for sponsored content.
• Every row carries its username, so multi-account runs group and filter cleanly.

{
  "username": "example_user",
  "shortcode": "ABC123xyz",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/ABC123xyz/",
  "mediaType": "video",
  "timestamp": 1767225600,
  "caption": "Behind the scenes of our spring launch #acme",
  "likeCount": 18420,
  "commentCount": 312,
  "videoViewCount": 245000,
  "isReel": true,
  "taggedUsers": ["another_example"],
  "coauthors": [],
  "isPaidPartnership": false,
  "displayUrl": "https://example.com/post.jpg"
}

What people use it for

• Content strategy: find the best posts in your niche and see what they have in common.
• Brand monitoring: track every post an account publishes and how it performs.
• Influencer vetting: measure real engagement across an account's recent posts.
• Sponsored content audits: spot paid partnerships with isPaidPartnership.

Run it

From the Apify Console, add one or more usernames, set how many posts you want per account and press Start. Use onlyPostsNewerThan to keep only recent posts; it filters by each post's real date, so old pinned posts stay out. Or call it from code:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/goat255~instagram-posts-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"usernames": ["example_user"], "maxPostsPerUser": 50, "onlyPostsNewerThan": "2026-01-01"}'

Use it from an AI agent

Works with Claude, Codex and any agent that speaks MCP or HTTP. See AGENTS.md for the input, output and a ready-made MCP setup.

Pricing

Pay per post returned. Current prices are on the Apify Store page.

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