Instagram Scraper by ScrapeBadger — Overview

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Scraper API for Instagram

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Features

• Profiles — full public profile by username: bio, links, counts, verification, business/professional metadata, plus about (country, join date, former usernames), related accounts and paginated posts.
• User media — videos, reels, tagged and pinned media, active stories and highlights.
• Social graph — paginated followers and following, and search within a user’s followers.
• Media — media detail by shortcode code, oEmbed, likers, paginated comments, comment replies and per-comment likers.
• Hashtags — hashtag info by tag, plus top, recent and reels feeds.
• Locations — search, location detail by pk, plus top and recent feeds.
• Audio — trending audio, track info and the media using a track.
• Search — users, hashtags, places, blended top, reels, music and autocomplete.

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Endpoints

• /users/{username}/videos pages the user’s main feed and keeps the video posts, so a page can hold slightly more than amount items; pass next_cursor back as cursor to continue the feed.
• /search/places takes optional lat and lng to bias the ranking toward a point; without them the ranking is global.

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Honesty caveat

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Conventions

• Pagination. List endpoints take amount (page size) and a cursor (opaque next-page token). Every list response is wrapped in { items, count, next_cursor, has_more } — pass next_cursor back as cursor to walk forward until has_more is false. Pass it back unchanged: it identifies the session that served the page, because Instagram’s own cursors only continue on that session.
• Page sizes. amount is a target. Hashtag feeds and /videos return whole Instagram pages, so a page can hold a few more items than amount; nothing is skipped between pages.
• Followers. Instagram shows a viewer only about the first 50 followers of another account, so /followers stops there with has_more: false. /following pages through the full list.
• Datetimes. Every datetime ships in both a Unix form (*_utc) and an ISO 8601 UTC string (*_at), e.g. taken_at + taken_at_utc.

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Credits

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Quickstart

curl "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/instagram/users/instagram" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch(
  "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/instagram/users/instagram",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.SCRAPEBADGER_API_KEY } },
);
const { user } = await res.json();
console.log(user.follower_count, "followers");

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/instagram/users/instagram",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
print(res.json()["user"]["follower_count"], "followers")