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📸 Instagram Posts, Comments & Profiles Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

Collect Instagram posts, comments, hashtag content, and profile data without logging in. Pull captions, likes, follower counts, comment text, media info, and more across any public account, post, or hashtag. Useful for social media managers monitoring competitors, researchers studying engagement trends, and growth teams building outreach lists.

Choose from four modes: profile posts, post comments, hashtag posts, or profile-only. Export everything to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

✨ What Does It Do

• 📝 Posts - Captions, likes, comments, views, media type, timestamp, and post URL from any public profile
• 💬 Comments - Comment text, username, reply count, comment position, and timestamp from any post URL
• #️⃣ Hashtags - Posts matching any hashtag with full engagement data and media info
• 👤 Profiles - Bio, follower count, following, post count, verification status, and business signals
• 📅 Date Filtering - Narrow post results to a specific date range or relative window like 30 days
• 🎬 Media Filtering - Filter by image, video, reel, or all media types
• 📦 Bulk Collection - Process multiple profiles, posts, or hashtags in a single run

🗃️ What Instagram Data Can You Extract?

🎬 Demo Video

Demo video coming soon.

🔧 Input

Example input for posts mode:

{
"mode":"posts",
"startUrls":["https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/"],
"maxItems":20,
"mediaTypeFilter":"all"
}

Example input for comments mode:

{
"mode":"comments",
"startUrls":[
"https://www.instagram.com/p/DPwJzEVDbwC/"
],
"maxItems":10
}

📊 Output

Output structure varies by mode. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Posts mode output example:

{
"shortcode":"DPwJzEVDbwC",
"postUrl":"https://www.instagram.com/p/DPwJzEVDbwC/",
"caption":"Golden hour over the canyon. Nature never disappoints.",
"username":"natgeo",
"likeCount":42891,
"commentCount":1204,
"viewCount":980000,
"mediaType":"video",
"timestamp":"2025-10-13T14:40:07.000Z",
"scrapedAt":"2026-03-16T23:32:52.246Z"
}

Comments mode output example:

{
"text":"That's my mayor ❤️",
"username":"wonderpulp",
"ownerId":"48291034",
"isVerified":false,
"likeCount":0,
"replyCount":0,
"postUrl":"https://www.instagram.com/p/DPwJzEVDbwC/",
"commentId":"18118166290715839",
"position":4,
"timestamp":"2025-10-15T23:47:46.000Z",
"scrapedAt":"2026-03-16T23:32:52.246Z"
}

💎 Why Choose the Instagram Scraper

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Open the Actor: Search for "Instagram Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Choose a Mode: Pick posts, comments, hashtags, or profile
4. Add Your Input: Enter usernames, profile URLs, or post URLs
5. Run: Click Start and let it collect
6. Export: Download as CSV, Excel, or JSON

🎯 Business Use Cases

Social Media Teams

• Track competitor publishing frequency and engagement across accounts
• Export post datasets for monthly reporting and creative benchmarking
• Monitor branded content and reel usage across competitor profiles

Research and Analytics

• Collect hashtag datasets for trend analysis and audience discovery
• Extract comment datasets for sentiment analysis and qualitative research
• Build profile lists with follower counts and bio data for outreach

Growth Teams

• Identify top-performing content formats by comparing likes and views
• Monitor influencer profiles and post activity at scale
• Schedule recurring runs to track follower and engagement changes over time

❓ FAQ

Do I need an Instagram account? No. All modes work on public content without any login or credentials.

How many comments can I get per post? Comments mode returns the initial publicly visible batch per post, typically between 10 and 20 comments. Results vary by post.

How accurate is the data? Data is collected live during each run. Rerun whenever you need fresh numbers.

Can I process multiple profiles at once? Yes. Add as many usernames or URLs as needed. They run in parallel.

Can I schedule regular runs? Yes. Use Apify's built-in scheduler to collect recurring Instagram data automatically.

Are there any limits? Free users can collect up to 100 items per run. Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000 per run.

🔗 Integrate Instagram Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate workflows without code
• Zapier - Connect 5000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications
• Airbyte - Data pipelines
• Google Drive - Export to spreadsheets
• GitHub - Version control integration

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions the moment a run completes.

How to enable MCP enrichment

Inside the input form, scroll to the ✨ Enrichment section and follow these steps:

1. Toggle on the Enrich Output checkbox.
2. Pick a connector in the Enrichment Connector dropdown. Two options are supported and the scraper auto-detects which one you picked:
   • Trends MCP (recommended) — adds momentum signals to every post regardless of caption format. Paste https://api.trendsmcp.ai/mcp when you click +, then sign in with your Trends MCP account.
   • Apollo.io — works only on business accounts that map to a real company. Paste https://mcp.apollo.io/mcp, then sign in with your Apollo account.
3. Run the actor. Every scraped item gets an extra enrichment object:
   • With Trends MCP: a top_trends_snapshot of 60 currently trending keywords sourced from Google Trends + TikTok Trending Hashtags + Reddit Hot Posts at the moment the run started, plus matched_trending_topics showing which of those trends appear in the post caption or username, plus per-creator brand momentum (creator_brand_trend_state, creator_brand_growth_1m, creator_brand_growth_12m, creator_brand_avg_volume_3m).
   • With Apollo: company name, website, LinkedIn URL, industry, employee count, founded year, country, short description, funding total, last funding round, top technologies.

The Trends snapshot is fetched once per run and reused across every post. Per-creator momentum is cached per username, so multiple posts from the same account cost only one lookup. Pick Trends MCP for hashtag-free analytics that work on any post; pick Apollo for B2B brand lookups.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions.
• Visit the Apify support page for platform help and tutorials.

📞 Contact

Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report a technical issue at https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram or Meta. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

✨ Why choose this Actor

📊 Production-grade structured 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, server-side 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 Posts, Comments & Profiles Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
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.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Instagram Posts, Comments & Profiles 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. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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