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🎬 Instagram Reel Scraper

🚀 Pull Instagram Reels from any public profile in minutes. Video URLs, views, likes, comments, captions, music, duration, thumbnails. No login.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-09 · 📊 20+ fields per reel · 🎵 Music + caption + comments · 🚫 No auth required

Pull live Instagram Reels from any public profile. The actor accepts a list of usernames, profile URLs, or direct Reel URLs and walks each profile's Reels feed to return one structured record per Reel ready for content research, social listening, brand monitoring, or creator-marketing analysis.

Every run fetches data live so you get the current state of Instagram at run time. Records include the Reel URL, video URL, thumbnail, view count, like count, comment count, caption, music track, duration, posted date, and optional top comments.

📋 What the Instagram Reel Scraper does

• 🎬 Three input types. Username (natgeo), profile URL, or direct Reel URL.
• 🗓️ Date filter. newerThan cutoff (absolute date or relative like 30 days).
• 📌 Skip pinned. Optional flag to skip pinned (often older) Reels.
• 💬 Optional comments. Fetch top N comments per Reel.
• 🎵 Music data. Track name and artist where exposed.
• 📊 Engagement. Views, likes, comments, duration.

The scraper walks each profile's Reels feed in parallel, fetches each Reel's metadata, and pushes structured records to the dataset.

💡 Why it matters: Reels are Instagram's highest-engagement format but its UI is paginated, JS-rendered, and lacks bulk export. A live, structured pull beats manual scraping for creator-marketing intel, brand monitoring, and content research.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing setup, a live run, and how to pipe results into Google Sheets via Apify integrations.

⚙️ Input

Example 1. NatGeo and NASA Reels, last 30 days.

{
"urls":["natgeo","nasa"],
"newerThan":"30 days",
"skipPinnedReels":true,
"commentsPerReel":0,
"maxItems":100
}

Example 2. Direct Reel URL with top comments.

{
"urls":[
"https://www.instagram.com/reel/ABC123def/"
],
"commentsPerReel":10,
"maxItems":1
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Instagram throttles aggressive scraping. Set commentsPerReel: 0 for the fastest runs. Pinned reels can skew chronological order; enable skipPinnedReels for accurate latest-first results.

📊 Output

The dataset returns one structured record per Reel. Each record carries identifiers, video URL, thumbnail, view count, like count, comment count, caption, music, duration, date, optional comments, and a back-reference URL. Consume the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS via the Apify console or API.

🧾 Schema

📦 Sample records

1. High-engagement reel (NatGeo)

{
"reelId":"ABC123def456",
"reelUrl":"https://www.instagram.com/reel/ABC123def456/",
"ownerUsername":"natgeo",
"thumbnailUrl":"https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/abc/thumb.jpg",
"videoUrl":"https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/abc/video.mp4",
"caption":"Stunning shot of the Milky Way over Mount Bromo, Indonesia. Photo by @photographer.",
"viewCount":2450000,
"likeCount":185000,
"commentCount":4500,
"durationSeconds":28,
"musicTrack":"Original audio - natgeo",
"musicArtist":"natgeo",
"isPinned":false,
"postedAt":"2026-04-12T14:30:00.000Z",
"topComments":[],
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

2. Brand reel with top comments

{
"reelId":"XYZ789ghi012",
"reelUrl":"https://www.instagram.com/reel/XYZ789ghi012/",
"ownerUsername":"nike",
"thumbnailUrl":"https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/def/thumb.jpg",
"videoUrl":"https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/def/video.mp4",
"caption":"Just Do It. New collection drops next week.",
"viewCount":5800000,
"likeCount":420000,
"commentCount":12500,
"durationSeconds":15,
"musicTrack":"Power - Kanye West",
"musicArtist":"Kanye West",
"isPinned":true,
"postedAt":"2026-05-01T09:00:00.000Z",
"topComments":[
{"author":"user1","text":"Need these now"},
{"author":"user2","text":"Best campaign yet"}
],
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

3. Sparse record (smaller creator)

{
"reelId":"QRS456tuv789",
"reelUrl":"https://www.instagram.com/reel/QRS456tuv789/",
"ownerUsername":"small_creator",
"thumbnailUrl":"https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/ghi/thumb.jpg",
"viewCount":1250,
"likeCount":85,
"commentCount":3,
"durationSeconds":22,
"isPinned":false,
"postedAt":"2026-05-07T18:00:00.000Z",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

📊 Production-grade structured Reels data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, source-native filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Instagram Reel Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set inputs. Add usernames, profile URLs, or Reel URLs to urls and configure filters.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

💼 Business use cases

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🔌 Automating Instagram Reel Scraper

This Actor exposes a REST endpoint, so you can drive it from any language or workflow tool.

• Node.js - call it via the Apify JS SDK.
• Python - call it via the Apify Python SDK.
• REST - hit it directly through the Apify v2 API.

Schedules. Use Apify Scheduler to capture daily snapshots of target profiles. Combine with the Apify dataset diff tools to track new Reels and engagement velocity between runs.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Integrate with any app

Instagram Reel Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes.

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• 💼 LinkedIn Posts Scraper - LinkedIn posts from profiles

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more reference-data scrapers.

🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue.

⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Meta or Instagram. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The scraper accesses only publicly available pages and is intended for legitimate research, analytics, and content-marketing use. Users are responsible for compliance with Instagram's Terms of Service and applicable law.