Instagram post comments API

GET /v1/instagram/post/comments

The first page of a post's comments (about 14, in Instagram's own order), with each comment's likes; reply counts are null (Instagram sends them empty). Instagram offers no way to the next page, so has_more is always false and the total is in the post's stats.comments. include_replies is accepted and ignored: replies are not available.

• 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#

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:

• cursor: the cursor from the previous page (Pagination).
• 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/comments" \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/comments",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/comments");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 comments",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/comments",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, other people's names and handles are replaced. Status 200.

1{2  "ok": true,3  "credits_charged": 1,4  "credits_remaining": 4999,5  "cached": false,6  "cached_at": null,7  "request_id": "req_07b46edbabedfce260181380",8  "data": {9    "object": "list",10    "items": [11      {12        "object": "comment",13        "platform": "instagram",14        "id": "18125925943986939",15        "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DfF3eqGSKKc/c/18125925943986939/",16        "post_id": "DfF3eqGSKKc",17        "parent_id": null,18        "author": {19          "id": "1000000001",20          "handle": "sample_user",21          "name": "Sample User",22          "url": null,23          "avatar_url": null,24          "verified": false25        },26        "text": "❤️❤️",27        "published_at": "2026-10-30T01:54:24Z",28        "stats": {29          "likes": 0,30          "replies": null,31          "dislikes": null32        },33        "is_pinned": null,34        "is_by_creator": false,35        "extra": null36      },37      {38        "object": "comment",39        "platform": "instagram",40        "id": "17995873727868359",41        "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DfF3eqGSKKc/c/17995873727868359/",42        "post_id": "DfF3eqGSKKc",43        "parent_id": null,44        "author": {45          "id": "1000000001",46          "handle": "sample_user",47          "name": "Sample User",48          "url": null,49          "avatar_url": null,50          "verified": false51        },52        "text": "🔥😍🔥",53        "published_at": "2026-10-30T01:13:04Z",54        "stats": {55          "likes": 1,56          "replies": null,57          "dislikes": null58        },59        "is_pinned": null,60        "is_by_creator": false,61        "extra": null62      }63    ],64    "cursor": null,65    "has_more": false,66    "parent": null67  },68  "cursor": null,69  "has_more": false70}

Response#

A list of Comment objects in data.items, with data.cursor and data.has_more.

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.

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

Also served at#

These paths answer the same request, so code written for other APIs keeps working: /v2/instagram/post/comments. See Switching from ScrapeCreators.

Related endpoints#

• 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 post or reel details (GET /v1/instagram/post)
• Instagram reel transcript (GET /v1/instagram/post/transcript)
• Instagram popular topic (GET /v1/instagram/search/popular)