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Instagram Account Posts Scraper

Fetch the post timeline of any public Instagram account in bulk — captions, image and video URLs, like and comment counts, carousel children, timestamps, and the poster's profile data — as clean structured JSON.

Why use this actor

• No account, no login, no API key — give it a username and you get the same feed the Instagram app shows.
• Paginated timeline — pulls the full grid newest-first, dozens to thousands of posts per account, in a single run.
• All post formats — single photos, single videos, Reels, and multi-slide carousels with every child media included.
• Rich engagement — like count, comment count, view / play count, video duration, and the original capture timestamp.
• Full media — multi-resolution image and video URLs straight from Instagram's CDN, plus alt-friendly metadata.
• Stable JSON envelope — every row carries _input, _source, _scrapedAt so you can join results back to your input list and feed pipelines, spreadsheets, or databases.

How it works

1. You provide a list of Instagram usernames (e.g. nasa) or full profile URLs.
2. The actor walks the account's post timeline page by page, newest-first, until maxPosts is reached or the timeline ends.
3. Each post is emitted as one dataset row with media URLs, caption, counters, and the poster's user record.
4. Results stream into your Apify dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You do not manage scrapers, browsers, sessions, or rotating IPs — all handled internally.

Input

{
"usernames":[
"nasa",
"natgeo"
],
"maxPosts":30,
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true,
"apifyProxyGroups":["DATACENTER"]
}
}

Output

Input: nasa, maxPosts: 30 (first 2 posts shown, long URLs truncated).

[
{
"_input":"nasa",
"_source":"S1-primary",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T10:54:19.253080+00:00",
"pk":"3895560746578059612",
"id":"3895560746578059612_528817151",
"code":"DYPz9wEvaFc",
"taken_at":1778607257,
"media_type":1,
"product_type":"feed",
"caption":{
"text":"Percy is roving the “Western Frontier” of Mars 🤠\n \nIt's the farthest west our Perseverance rover has explored since landing in Jezero Crater in 2021, and it's an ancient landscape that may predate the crater itself…"
},
"like_count":227972,
"comment_count":936,
"play_count":null,
"video_duration":null,
"original_width":2500,
"original_height":2123,
"user":{
"pk":"528817151",
"username":"nasa",
"full_name":"NASA",
"is_verified":true,
"profile_pic_url":"https://instagram.fcgk52-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.2885-19/29090066_159271188110124..."
},
"image_versions2":{
"candidates":[
{"width":2500,"height":2123,"url":"https://instagram.fcgk52-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-15/689446779_18608299801049152..."}
]
},
"locations":[]
},
{
"_input":"nasa",
"_source":"S1-primary",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T10:54:19.253080+00:00",
"pk":"3891942993783911519",
"id":"3891942993783911519_528817151",
"code":"DYC9YhOj3Rf",
"taken_at":1778175780,
"media_type":8,
"product_type":"carousel_container",
"caption":{
"text":"Don't let anyone dull your shine 💫\n \nThe heart of galaxy M77 is shining so brightly in this Webb telescope image, it nearly outshines the galaxy itself…"
},
"like_count":678128,
"comment_count":1549,
"user":{
"pk":"528817151",
"username":"nasa",
"full_name":"NASA",
"is_verified":true
},
"image_versions2":{
"candidates":[
{"width":1060,"height":1288,"url":"https://instagram.fcgk52-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-15/672396587_18606926689049152..."}
]
},
"carousel_media_count":3,
"carousel_media":[
{
"id":"3891940960318236431_528817151",
"media_type":1,
"image_versions2":{
"candidates":[
{"width":1060,"height":1288,"url":"https://instagram.fcgk52-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-15/672396587_18606926689049152..."}
]
}
},
{
"id":"3891940963992441227_528817151",
"media_type":1,
"image_versions2":{
"candidates":[
{"width":1440,"height":1743,"url":"https://instagram.fcgk52-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-15/688674294_18606926698049152..."}
]
}
},
"... 1 more"
]
}
]

Error envelope

Accounts that don't exist, are deactivated, or fail to fetch return a structured error instead of crashing the run:

{
"_input":"this-account-does-not-exist-xyz",
"_error":"not_found",
"_errorDetail":"NotFound feed/user this-account-does-not-exist-xyz",
"_source":"S1-primary",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T10:54:19.253080+00:00"
}

Filter on _error to triage failed rows.

Pricing

This actor is billed per result: $6.00 per 1,000 posts. Each post in the dataset = 1 result. Error rows (not-found, fetch-failed) are not billed.

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Notes

• Instagram returns a rich record per post (carousel children with their own resolutions, video manifests, music metadata, paid-partnership flags, etc.). This actor preserves the full envelope so you can pick the fields you need.
• Pagination is handled internally — you do not need to manage cursors. To page externally, simply re-run with a larger maxPosts.
• Private accounts return zero posts and a single not_found error row.
• Media CDN URLs are signed and time-bound (valid for a few hours). If you need permanent copies, mirror the bytes shortly after the run finishes.
• like_count and comment_count are eventually-consistent and may lag the live UI by a few minutes.
• maxPosts: 0 means unlimited — a multi-year account can return thousands of posts; budget your run accordingly.
• For batches over ~30 accounts, switch proxyConfiguration to RESIDENTIAL to avoid per-IP rate limits.