API Reference
Fetch Instagram profile, post, and search signals with documented web scraping API endpoints. 5 endpoints documented below.
curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/instagram/post/openai/DVHLZU9Emy6" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"Instagram is login-gated and rate-limited, so scraping it reliably is hard. Crawlora's Instagram endpoints return public profile, post, and reels data as structured JSON. A pull on 2026-10-27 of the official @instagram account showed 686,425,944 followers, 8,625 posts and six posts embedded in the profile response.
/instagram/profile/openai returned followers_count 6,699,088, following_count 0, posts_count 1,906, is_verified true and 6 inline posts on 2026-10-30. Check counts before trusting them: a verified account reporting zero following may be a field the page does not expose.
/instagram/user/google/posts returned 12 items with a paging_info max_id and more_available true, and /instagram/reels/45374573700 returned 12 reels the same way. Pass max_id back to continue; reels take the numeric user id, not the username.
/instagram/post/openai/DVHLZU9Emy6 returned media_type 1 at 1440 by 1920 with a caption, but taken_at 0 and an empty user object, so read the timestamp and author from the profile or posts routes. Comments by post URL returned 14 rows with a max_id cursor and more_available true.
Re-run to monitor follower growth, posting cadence, and engagement over time.
The profile returned id 25025320, followers_count 686,425,944, posts_count 8,625, is_verified true and a following_count of 0. Counters are point-in-time, so store the retrieval time.
location came back with blank strings and zero coordinates, so treat zeros as unset, not as a real place.
The profile carried 6 recent posts; use the user-posts route with max_id to page further.
/instagram/post/{id}/{post_id}apiKey8 credits/requestReturns media details for an Instagram URL shortcode. Use media.code from the reels response or shortcode from a public post URL; numeric media IDs are rejected.
Required: id, post_id.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 1 item. Filled in every item: url, width, height. In the sample: url: scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com.
/instagram/post/commentsapiKey8 credits/requestReturns top-level comments for a public Instagram post or Reel. `reply_count` is included when the logged-out source exposes it; reply bodies are not available on this anonymous surface. Pass `paging_info.max_id` back as `max_id` for the next comment page.
Required: url. Optional: max_id.
Sampled 25 Oct 2026: 14 items. Filled in every item: id, created_at, comment_like_count, user. Not in every item: text (10). In the sample: created_at: 2026-10-24 to 2026-10-25; comment_like_count: 0 to 1, median 0.
/instagram/profile/{username}apiKey8 credits/requestReturns the public profile of an Instagram account by `username`. The response has the user id, full name, biography, bio links, external URL, category, follower, following and post counts, verified and private flags, location, profile picture, recent posts with captions and like counts, and related profiles.
Required: username.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 6 items. Filled in every item: id, shortcode, media_url, is_video, width, height, caption. In the sample: media_url: scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com and 2 other hosts; is_video: true in 3 of 6; caption: median 191 characters.
/instagram/reels/{id}apiKey8 credits/requestReturns up to 12 public Reels via anonymous proxied HTTP for the numeric Instagram user ID. Supports opaque `max_id` pagination. Captions, timestamps and original image dimensions are omitted when the public source does not expose them.
Required: id. Optional: max_id.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 12 items. Filled in every item: media.
/instagram/user/{username}/postsapiKey8 credits/requestReturns public posts and Reels from the logged-out Posts tab for an Instagram username. Each item exposes the fields available in Instagram's public grid; source-omitted metrics and dimensions are not inferred. Pass `paging_info.max_id` back as `max_id` for the next page.
Required: username. Optional: max_id.
Sampled 25 Oct 2026: 12 items. Filled in every item: id, shortcode, accessibility_caption, caption, display_uri, media_type, product_type, user. Not in every item: carousel_media_count (3). In the sample: media_type: 2 to 8, median 2; display_uri: scontent-ams2-1.cdninstagram.com; caption: median 138 characters; carousel_media_count: 6 to 7, median 7.
Results from the 7 days to 14 Oct 2026. Current status
| Endpoint | Request | Checks passed | Median response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieve a specific Instagram post by URL shortcode | GET /instagram/post/openai/DVHLZU9Emy6 | 100% | 1.18 s |
| Retrieve an Instagram user profile by username | GET /instagram/profile/openai | 100% | 3.44 s |
| Retrieve Instagram Reels for a user | GET /instagram/reels/45374573700 | 100% | 2.42 s |