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🏯 Instagram Comments Scraper: The radar on social media 📡

Introducing the Instagram Comments Scraper, your go-to tool for extracting comments from Instagram posts efficiently. This high-performance scraper excels at rapidly collecting comment data from any Instagram post, making it perfect for data analysts and businesses seeking comment insights. With blazing-fast performance of 100-200 comments per second and cost-effective pricing at just $0.50 per 1000 posts, this tool delivers exceptional value for comprehensive comment analysis.

ℹ️ Disclaimer

We are professionals specializing in data extraction. This actor is exceptionally fine-tuned for scraping Instagram, providing you with a comprehensive suite of tools. Moreover, we provide top-tier maintenance and exceptional support. Pure data - at your fingertips. You name it, we get it.

Important Note About Usage

This scraper is designed to collect comment data from Instagram posts. Please respect the following rules:

• Each query or post must fetch at least 10 comments. Fetching fewer creates unnecessary overhead and may be blocked.
• Scraping posts with very few or no comments can trigger our rate-limiter and may result in your runs being stopped.
• These limits ensure stable performance and fair use for everyone.

🐉 Features and Functionality

• No Authentication, no cookies. Just pure data. 🛡️
• Almost free. $0.50 per 1K results. 💰
• No extra costs, no proxy needed. 🐉
• Simple Output, super fast. 💨
• Plug and play for AI tools like Flowise, Langchain, etc. 🧠

🆓 Demo Mode & Free Users

The users that are on Free Plan can use the actor only on Demo Mode. Please keep in mind that the users that are on Free Plan can retrieve a maximum of 10 items, and cannot use the actor via API. If you want to use this actor without any limitation, you have to subscribe to a paid plan on Apify. You can check this link to subscribe easily.

👹 Competitors

Oooh yes, we love this part! 🔥 We're not here to brag, but give our tool a shot and see the magic happen! Just keep in mind that while we tested everything fairly (same inputs and resources), the actual speeds and costs might bounce around a bit in real-world use.

🎎 Who needs this?

The Instagram Comments Scraper is engineered to deliver outstanding efficiency.

• Social Media Managers & Content Creators: Track engagement patterns, identify trending topics, and understand audience sentiment across posts. This data helps in content planning, response management, and building stronger community engagement strategies. Perfect for optimizing posting schedules and content themes based on historical comment patterns.

• Market Research Analysts: Gather real-time consumer insights, track brand sentiment, and conduct competitor analysis through comment data. This enables detailed market segmentation, trend forecasting, and consumer behavior analysis, providing valuable inputs for strategic business decisions.

• Marketing and Advertising Professionals: Marketers and advertisers can use comments data to analyze trends, hashtags, and product reception. This helps in campaign optimization, influencer identification, and measuring brand sentiment across different demographics and regions.

• Data Scientists & AI Researchers: Access structured comment data for training sentiment analysis models, developing natural language processing algorithms, and creating predictive analytics tools. Perfect for building machine learning models that can automatically categorize comments, detect trends, or identify potential viral content.

• Brand Protection & Reputation Managers: Monitor brand mentions, track customer complaints, and identify potential PR issues before they escalate. Essential for maintaining brand integrity, managing crisis communications, and ensuring timely responses to customer concerns.

• OSINT & Security Professionals: Analyze comment patterns for security assessments, threat detection, and digital investigation purposes. Valuable for monitoring social movements, identifying coordinated activities, and gathering intelligence from public discourse.

• Academic Researchers: Study social behavior patterns, conduct linguistic analysis, and research digital communication trends. Useful for sociology, psychology, and communication studies focusing on social media impact and online interaction patterns.

• E-commerce & Product Managers: Track product feedback, identify customer pain points, and gather feature requests through comment analysis. Essential for product development, customer experience improvement, and competitive analysis.

🍜 Output Example

{
"postId":"DOWP-SKcbxW",
"type":"comment",
"id":"18082843581850016",
"userId":"35344407915",
"message":"see you this weekend! ❤️‍🔥",
"createdAt":"2025-09-09T06:28:25.000Z",
"likeCount":12,
"replyCount":0,
"user":{
"id":"36344407913",
"username":"janedoe",
"fullName":"Jane Doe",
"isVerified": true,
"isPrivate": false,
"profilePicUrl":"https://scontent-vie1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/312703494_132238196273312_7753306379674188963_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e0_s150x150_tt6&_nc_cat=100&ig_cache_key=GAl6oxKg8LYaRXgAAKP8P9MSR5lrbkLAAAB1501500j-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=669407&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InByb2ZpbGVfcGljLnd3dy4xMDgLkMzIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=3sESud8CEDIQ7kNvwENEul-&_nc_oc=AdnP9xVZkwOCNwuURqeQVlfhQh-ZCyycrfaTuzp6g2fFNWYR0MNBAz-oOg0sElgeIj0&_nc_ad=z-m&_nc_cid=0&_nc_zt=24&_nc_ht=scontent-vie1-1.cdninstagram.com&oh=00_AfbKeAiUzRd-K2Ofcs7ttOzARVPSEhG9KTHHaWq8KfafJQ&oe=68E01C"
},
"isRanked":true
}

🍚 Input Parameters

🔧 Troubleshooting

• Getting Few Results? Check "Maximum number of items on output" (maxItems) field, and "Maximum charged results" fields. These two fields enable you to handle the total number of results. Leaving both empty will result infinite results.
• Are Some Outputs Missing? Ensure that you review all fields, not just the overview. You can navigate to the "Storage" tab and select either "Download the results" or "Open in a New Tab."
• Getting No Results? Confirm that your parameters are not overly restrictive.
• Not Receiving New Items After a Large Batch? Examine the log for messages like "Logging is too fast, some lines were skipped." If you encounter this issue, consider scraping smaller amounts of data to avoid it.

📞 Contact and Feature Requests

If you need any sort of support, please send an email to apidojo10@gmail.com. You name it, we get it.

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