Instagram post or reel details API

Caption, counts, media, owner, tagged users, co-authors, sound and carousel children of one post or reel.

GET /v1/instagram/post

Caption, counts, media, owner, tagged users, co-authors, sound and carousel children of one post or reel. For videos stats.views is the view count of the post's embed page (extra.views_source = embed_views), which differs from the play count of the reels tab.

Cost: 1 credit
Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

Name	Type	Required	Description
`url`	URL	one of	Post or reel URL (/p/..., /reel/..., /tv/...). Accepted hosts: `instagram.com`, `instagr.am`.
`id`	string	one of	Shortcode or numeric media id. Also accepted as `shortcode`, `media_id`.
`include_play_count`	boolean	no	Set false to skip the extra fetch for the video view count and answer faster. Default `true`.

Send at least one of url, id. If you send several, the first listed is used and the rest are ignored.

Every request also accepts:

region: two-letter country code for results that vary by country. Changing it restarts the cursor chain.
trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/instagram/post" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode "url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfF3eqGSKKc/"

1import os2import requests34params = {5    "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfF3eqGSKKc/",6}7res = requests.get(8    "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/instagram/post",9    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},10    params=params,11)12body = res.json()1314if body["ok"]:15    print(body["data"])16else:17    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/instagram/post");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfF3eqGSKKc/"4}).toString();5const res = await fetch(url, {6  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },7});8const body = await res.json();910if (body.ok) {11  console.log(body.data);12} else {13  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);14}

1{2  "nodes": [3    {4      "name": "SocialScrape Instagram post or reel details",5      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",6      "typeVersion": 4.2,7      "position": [8        0,9        010      ],11      "parameters": {12        "method": "GET",13        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/instagram/post",14        "sendQuery": true,15        "queryParameters": {16          "parameters": [17            {18              "name": "url",19              "value": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfF3eqGSKKc/"20            }21          ]22        },23        "sendHeaders": true,24        "headerParameters": {25          "parameters": [26            {27              "name": "x-api-key",28              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"29            }30          ]31        }32      }33    }34  ],35  "connections": {}36}

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened. Status 200.

200 OKSample response

1{2  "ok": true,3  "credits_charged": 1,4  "credits_remaining": 4999,5  "cached": false,6  "cached_at": null,7  "request_id": "req_c79d38f5e72c10e56a98d808",8  "data": {9    "object": "post",10    "platform": "instagram",11    "id": "DfF3eqGSKKc",12    "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfF3eqGSKKc/",13    "type": "reel",14    "author": {15      "id": "673882723",16      "handle": "nasajohnson",17      "name": "NASA’s Johnson Space Center",18      "url": "https://www.instagram.com/nasajohnson/",19      "avatar_url": "https://scontent-ord5-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/11421977_902607023152688_677352411_a.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=f7ccc5&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InByb2ZpbGVfcGljLnd3dy4xNTAuQzMifQ%3D%3D&_nc_ohc=4BYI5YfrJ3MQ7kNvwFFve1G&_nc_oc=Adr183I...",20      "verified": true21    },22    "title": null,23    "text": "More power loading. 🔋\n\nToday, NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk conducted a spacewalk to install the 7th of 8 new roll out solar arrays. The final new array is slated to be installed during th...",24    "published_at": "2026-10-29T20:35:35Z",25    "duration_seconds": 41.376,26    "language": null,27    "hashtags": [],28    "mentions": [],29    "stats": {30      "views": 90356,31      "likes": 6271,32      "comments": 64,33      "shares": null,34      "saves": null,35      "dislikes": null36    },37    "media": {38      "thumbnail_url": "https://scontent-ord5-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/865204930_18640535563026724_3353517023594775034_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=18de74&efg=eyJlZmdfdGFnIjoiQ0xJUFMuYmVzdF9pbWFnZV91cmxnZW4uQzMifQ%3D%3D&_nc...",39      "video_url": "https://scontent-ord5-2.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t2/f2/m86/AQMgO65IBSO4D1Fg1v8qWRLjCR7N-LaX4H_sPQeyoyjFQE149o094RWHdy1qn9GBy1VHAND2Io7UoTGpUBgIXE-YSbD4UnaCrO694xk.mp4?_nc_cat=102&_nc_sid=5e9851&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_ohc=4...",40      "audio_url": null,41      "image_urls": null,42      "width": 1080,43      "height": 192044    },45    "song": {46      "id": "29430201353240150",47      "title": "Original audio",48      "artist": "nasajohnson",49      "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reels/audio/29430201353240150/"50    },51    "location": null,52    "is_pinned": null,53    "is_sponsored": null,54    "extra": {55      "accessibility_caption": "Video by NASA’s Johnson Space Center on October 29, 2026. May be an image of poster, magazine and text.",56      "coauthors": [57        "iss",58        "nasa"59      ],60      "media_id": "4018862241843028636",61      "owner_followers": 1578779,62      "product_type": "clips",63      "published_from": "taken_at",64      "tagged_users": [65        "nasa",66        "iss",67        "astro_anil"68      ],69      "topics": [70        "spacewalk",71        "iss",72        "astronaut"73      ],74      "views_source": "embed_views"75    }76  },77  "cursor": null,78  "has_more": null79}

Response#

A Post object in data.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

Code	HTTP	Retry	Meaning
`invalid_params`	400	no	A parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
`unsupported_url`	400	no	The URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).
`not_found`	404	no	The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

Example error:

1{2  "ok": false,3  "error": {4    "code": "not_found",5    "message": "The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.",6    "retryable": false7  },8  "credits_charged": 0,9  "request_id": "req_ad07f2ef1c7bd8ece6d4c1c3"10}

Instagram profile (GET /v1/instagram/profile)
Instagram profile by user id (GET /v1/instagram/basic-profile)
Instagram profile post count (GET /v1/instagram/profile/post-count)
Instagram profile posts (GET /v1/instagram/profile/posts)
Instagram profile reels (GET /v1/instagram/profile/reels)
Instagram reel transcript (GET /v1/instagram/post/transcript)
Instagram post comments (GET /v1/instagram/post/comments)
Instagram popular topic (GET /v1/instagram/search/popular)

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