Instagram Hashtag Scraper (No Login)

sfoln/instagram-hashtag-posts · Social media, Lead generation, Automation On request

Scrape public Instagram posts and reels for any hashtag, no login needed: caption, date, likes, comments, video views, owner, hashtags, mentions and thumbnail, one row per post. $0.60 per 1,000 posts + $0.003 per results page.

Request access Run it$0.60 / 1,000 instagram hashtag post, more below

About

What it does

Instagram Hashtag Scraper (No Login) gets public Instagram posts and reels for any hashtag, one normalized record per post: shortcode, URL, type (image, video, carousel, reel), caption, posting date, likes, comments, video duration, thumbnail, hashtags, mentions and the owner's handle, ID, name, verification and follower count. It's built for influencer discovery, campaign and UGC monitoring, trend research, dataset building and AI agents.

Price

Price per delivered record

Event	Price	Per 1,000	Charged for
Instagram hashtag post `instagram-hashtag-post`	$0.0006	$0.60 / 1,000	Charged once per Instagram post delivered as a dataset record. Hashtag summary records are never charged.
Hashtag results page `instagram-hashtag-query`	$0.003	$3 / 1,000	Charged once per page of hashtag results that delivered at least one post. Covers the per-request upstream fee. Also charged for an empty page the upstream billed (when the budget covers it).

Apify free plan: up to 10 items per run. Paid plans have no per-run cap; set maxTotalChargeUsd to cap spend.

Run

Call it from code, an agent or the Console

This API is private on Apify for now. Email us and we will publish it for you, usually within two working days. The calls below work once it is public. contact@sfoln.com

curl · synchronous run, rows in the response

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/sfoln~instagram-hashtag-posts/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"hashtags":["makeup"],"maxPostsPerHashtag":10}'

mcp.json · hosted Apify MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=sfoln/instagram-hashtag-posts"
    }
  }
}

asynchronous run · for large batches

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/sfoln~instagram-hashtag-posts/runs?maxTotalChargeUsd=1
GET  https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/{runId}            # until status is SUCCEEDED
GET  https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{defaultDatasetId}/items?format=json

Authenticate with an Apify API token. MCP clients can instead sign in with OAuth when prompted. Example prompt for an agent: Find the 30 most recent public Instagram posts tagged #makeup and summarize which creators and products appear most often.

Input

Input fields

Enter hashtags. Each hashtag produces one dataset record per post plus one summary record per hashtag.

Field	Type	Default	Meaning
`hashtags` *	`array`	required	Hashtags Hashtags with or without #, or instagram.com/explore/tags/… URLs. Duplicates are removed. Accounts on the Apify free plan can process up to 10 hashtags per run.
`maxPostsPerHashtag`	`integer`	`30`	Max posts per hashtag How many posts to return per hashtag (1–300). Each delivered post is one charged event, plus one page event per results page. The upstream exposes at most 11 pages per hashtag. Range 1–300.
`datePosted`	`string`	—	Date posted Only return posts that Google indexed within this window. Leave empty for any time. One of `"last-hour"`, `"last-day"`, `"last-week"`, `"last-month"`, `"last-year"`.
`mediaType`	`string`	`"all"`	Media type all = posts and reels, reels = reels only. One of `"all"`, `"reels"`.
`maxHashtags`	`integer`	`100`	Max hashtags Safety cap on the number of hashtags processed in this run. Range 1–1000.
`concurrency`	`integer`	`4`	Concurrency How many hashtags are fetched in parallel (1–8). Range 1–8.
`itemTimeoutSecs`	`integer`	`600`	Time limit per input (seconds) Pagination for one hashtag stops cleanly shortly before this limit (60–3600). Raise it for very large per-input limits. Range 60–3600.
`includeRaw`	`boolean`	`false`	Include raw upstream response Attach the unmodified provider object to each result record.

Example input

{
  "hashtags": [
    "makeup"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerHashtag": 10
}

Output

One record per input item

Records land in the run's dataset; a synchronous call returns them directly. Each has a status (ok is charged; everything else is free) and a charged flag. The run's OUTPUT record totals items and charges.

Field	Type	Meaning
`input`	`string \| object`	Input The hashtag as provided.
`recordType`	`string`	Record type post (one per delivered post, charged) \| hashtag (one summary per hashtag, never charged) e.g. `"post"`
`position`	`integer`	Position 1-based position of the post within its input
`hashtag`	`string \| null`	Hashtag Lower-cased, without #.
`hashtagUrl`	`string`	Hashtag URL Summary records only.
`datePosted`	`string \| null`	Date filter Summary records only.
`mediaType`	`string`	Media type filter Summary records only.
`postId`	`string \| null`	Post ID
`shortcode`	`string \| null`	Shortcode
`url`	`string \| null`	Post URL
`type`	`string \| null`	Type image \| video \| carousel \| reel
`caption`	`string \| null`	Caption
`takenAt`	`string \| null`	Posted at ISO 8601 UTC
`likes`	`number \| null`	Likes
`comments`	`number \| null`	Comments
`views`	`number \| null`	Views Video/reel plays when exposed; null for images
`durationSecs`	`number \| null`	Duration (s)
`thumbnailUrl`	`string \| null`	Thumbnail URL
`videoUrl`	`string \| null`	Video URL Temporary CDN link
`hashtags`	`array`	Hashtags
`mentions`	`array`	Mentions
`isPaidPartnership`	`boolean \| null`	Paid partnership
`locationName`	`string \| null`	Location
`ownerHandle`	`string \| null`	Owner handle
`ownerId`	`string \| null`	Owner ID
`ownerFullName`	`string \| null`	Owner name
`ownerIsVerified`	`boolean \| null`	Owner verified
`ownerFollowers`	`number \| null`	Owner followers
`rowsDelivered`	`integer`	Posts delivered Summary records only.
`pagesFetched`	`integer`	Pages fetched Summary records only.
`pagesCharged`	`integer`	Pages charged Summary records only.
`reachedEnd`	`boolean`	Reached end Summary records only: the upstream reported no further pages.
`stopReason`	`string`	Stop reason Summary records only: limit \| end \| budget \| max_pages \| deadline \| empty_pages \| error
`status`	`string`	Status ok \| not_found \| error \| skipped_invalid \| skipped_budget \| skipped_free_plan e.g. `"ok"`
`charged`	`boolean`	Charged
`chargedEvent`	`string`	Charged event
`error`	`object`	Error
`warnings`	`array`	Warnings
`source`	`string`	Source
`fetchedAt`	`string`	Fetched at

Example record

{
  "input": "#funnydogs",
  "recordType": "post",
  "position": 1,
  "hashtag": "funnydogs",
  "postId": "3714950709444987377",
  "shortcode": "DOOJ_zSjcnx",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOOJ_zSjcnx/",
  "type": "reel",
  "caption": "Well we tried to be subtle…  #funnydogs #funny #whiteboxer #australianshepherd",
  "takenAt": "2025-09-05T12:51:42.000Z",
  "likes": 35854,
  "comments": 1263,
  "views": null,
  "durationSecs": 65.7,
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://scontent-ord5-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/542212527_….jpg",
  "videoUrl": "https://scontent-ord5-2.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t2/f2/m86/….mp4",
  "hashtags": [
    "funnydogs",
    "funny",
    "whiteboxer",
    "australianshepherd"
  ],
  "mentions": [],
  "isPaidPartnership": false,
  "locationName": null,
  "ownerHandle": "_layla_the_boxer",
  "ownerId": "13582495760",
  "ownerFullName": "Layla the Boxer",
  "ownerIsVerified": true,
  "ownerFollowers": 1369176,
  "status": "ok",
  "charged": true,
  "chargedEvent": "instagram-hashtag-post",
  "source": "scrapecreators",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-14T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Machine-readable

This page for agents

/actors/instagram-hashtag-posts.json — this API as JSON
/actors/instagram-hashtag-posts.md — this API as Markdown
/catalog.json — the whole catalogue