Instagram scraper API

The Instagram Graph API needs a Facebook app, an app review, and a business or creator account that you own or manage. It cannot read a competitor, a creator you are vetting, or a hashtag at large. That gap is why scraper listings exist. It is also why most teams end up with a parser they did not plan to maintain.

• —Creator vetting. Follower count, engagement per post, and recent content before you sign a creator.
• —Campaign tracking. Likes, comments, views, and saves on the posts a creator delivered.
• —Hashtag and location reads. Top and recent posts for a hashtag or a place, for trend and UGC work.
• —Comment listening. Comment threads and replies on a brand post, for sentiment and moderation.
• —Profile monitoring. Bio, links, and follower changes over time for a set of accounts.

• —Login walls. Instagram pushes logged-out visitors to sign in. Scrapers answer with pooled accounts and proxies, and those get banned in batches.
• —Private and deleted accounts. Many scrapers return a 200 with empty fields. You cannot tell "private" from "no posts yet".
• —Hidden like counts. Some accounts hide likes. A scraper that returns 0 instead of null poisons every engagement rate you compute.
• —Media URLs that expire. Instagram CDN links die in days. Every image must be copied before then or the link is dead.
• —Shared backends. Several RapidAPI listings wrap the same upstream scraper. When it goes down, so do the "alternatives". We cover this on the Instagram scraper APIs on RapidAPI page.

• —Public reads on request. You ask for a public profile, post, or hashtag. We read it and answer. Private accounts return a clear error, not a blank success.
• —Null means hidden. A hidden like count comes back as null. Your averages stay honest.
• —Enriched metrics. Shares, saves, and views where Instagram shows them, plus follower and post counts on the profile.
• —Media that stays up. Images and videos are served from our CDN. The link you store keeps working.
• —One schema with TikTok and X. Move from Instagram to the other platforms without a new parser.
• —Pay afterwards. $0.0025 per request, down to $0.002 at volume. 30-day cache hits are free. Failed requests are free. You pay only when Openhandle returns an answer.

Openhandle is read-only. We never like, follow, comment, or message on any account. Private accounts, close-friends posts, stories from private accounts, and direct messages are out of scope. Account owners can ask us to block their profile. The public data notice lists every limit.

Create a key and make your first Instagram call. You get 100 free live requests and no card is needed. See every endpoint on the Instagram API page, and run a request from the quickstart in cURL, TypeScript, Go, or Python.