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Instagram Hashtag Scraper | Extract Hashtag Posts API

Scrape Instagram posts by hashtag and export a clean, structured dataset (caption, likes, comments, media URLs, timestamps, and more). The perfect Instagram scraper for hashtag research, trend analysis, content discovery, influencer hunting, and social media monitoring.

❓ What is Instagram Hashtag Scraper?

Instagram Hashtag Scraper is a powerful Apify actor that lets you search and extract posts from Instagram by hashtag. Perfect for social media managers, marketers, researchers, and brands looking to analyze trends and discover user-generated content (UGC).

With this Instagram scraper tool, you can:

• 🔍 Search posts by hashtag — Enter any hashtag (e.g., "travel", "fitness", "photography")
• 📈 Extract engagement metrics — Get like and comment counts for every post
• 🖼️ Get media URLs — Extract high-quality image and video URLs, plus dimensions
• 📄 Automatic pagination — Automatically scroll and scrape hundreds of posts
• 📊 Structured Data — Export results in clean JSON, CSV, or Excel formats

🎯 What Data Can You Extract from Instagram Hashtags?

🚀 How to Use Instagram Hashtag Scraper

Step 1: Enter Hashtag

Enter the hashtag you want to scrape (with or without the # symbol).

Step 2: Set Filters (Optional)

Step 3: Run and Download Results

Click Start to run the scraper. Results are available in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and RSS formats.

📋 Example Input

{
"hashtag":"travel",
"maxResults":50
}

📋 Example Output

{
"postId":"3343355556677889900",
"shortcode":"CxYz123AbCd",
"postUrl":"https://www.instagram.com/p/CxYz123AbCd/",
"caption":"Exploring the beautiful mountains! 🏔️✨ #travel #nature #hiking",
"accessibilityCaption":"Photo by Jane Doe on April 12, 2026. May be an image of mountain and outdoors.",
"ownerId":"1234567890",
"likeCount":15420,
"commentCount":342,
"mediaType":"GraphImage",
"isVideo":false,
"commentsDisabled":false,
"displayUrl":"https://instagram.fist1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/.../display.jpg",
"thumbnailUrl":"https://instagram.fist1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/.../thumbnail.jpg",
"width":1080,
"height":1350,
"postedAt":"2026-04-12T10:00:00.000Z",
"takenAtTimestamp":1712916000,
"hashtag":"travel"
}

🎨 Dataset Views

💡 Use Cases

• Trend Analysis — Track what’s popular for a specific hashtag and discover viral themes
• Content Discovery — Explore fresh posts for a niche and build content pipelines
• UGC Research — Collect posts for brand/keyword hashtags and find creators
• Influencer Hunting — Identify users who get high engagement on niche hashtags
• Social Media Monitoring — Keep track of brand mentions or campaign hashtags

🔧 Tips for Best Results

1. Be specific — Broad hashtags (like #love or #instagood) update too quickly. Try niche tags.
2. Start small — Test with maxResults: 50 before doing large extractions.
3. One tag per run — Run the actor separately for different hashtags to keep datasets clean.
4. Schedule runs — Set up recurrent runs on Apify to continuously monitor a hashtag over time.

🏷️ Tags

instagram instagram scraper hashtag search instagram hashtag instagram posts social media scraper trend analysis influencer research ugc discovery instagram data apify instagram

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📞 Support

For questions, feedback, or issues, please contact us through Apify or open an issue.

Happy scraping Instagram hashtags! 📸✨