Instagram Reels Scraper

ℹ️ About

An efficient and straightforward Actor for scraping Instagram posts, profiles and Reels, designed with performance in mind.

✨ Features

• Retrieve profile stats such as followers, bio, username, and links.
• Scrape reels, including likes, play counts, comments, captions, and music metadata.
• Choose the number of reels to scrape per profile.
• Scrape thousands of profiles and posts seamlessly.

⚙️ Inputs

• tags: A list of Instagram usernames to scrape.
• reels_count: Define the target number of reels to scrape per profile.
• target: Choose to scrape profiles only, posts only or both.
• post_urls: Scrape Instagram posts (or reels) using their URL or code.
• include_raw_data: Include raw data collected from Instagram in the final results.

Example:

This input will scrape zuck's profile, 8 of the latest reels from his feed, and one post with the code DFNkPgRROOS:

1{
2  "tags": [
3    "zuck"
4  ],
5  "target": "all",
6  "reels_count": 8,
7  "post_urls": [
8    "https://www.instagram.com/p/DFNkPgRROOS"
9  ],
10  "include_raw_data": true,
11  "custom_functions": "{ shouldSkip: (data) => false, shouldContinue: (data) => true }"
12}

Custom functions

This is an advanced parameter which you can use to modify the crawler's behaviour. With custom functions, you can skip a post or profile based on its data, or stop crawling a profile's reels when a certain condition is met.

For example, you can skip posts if they don't have music metadata:

1{
2  shouldSkip: (data) => data.kind == 'post' && !data.music_metadata
3}

Or stop crawling when it reaches the shortcode of a post:

1{
2  shouldContinue: (data) => data.code != 'codeToStopCrawling'
3}

The data argument is the same of an item on the final dataset (see Outputs).

📄 Outputs

Profile

1{
2	"kind": "profile",
3	"input": "zuck",
4	"id": "314216",
5	"is_private": false,
6	"username": "zuck",
7	"full_name": "Mark Zuckerberg",
8	"biography": "",
9	"bio_links": [],
10	"followers": 15534658,
11	"following": 610,
12	"profile_pic": "https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/...",
13	"raw_data": {...}
14}

Reel

1{
2	"kind": "post",
3	"id": "3548364142010150900_314216",
4	"code": "DE-UmMaP6_0",
5	"post_type": "clips",
6	"owner_id": "314216",
7	"taken_at": 1737218208,
8	"caption": "Send it",
9	"play_count": 4456434,
10	"comment_count": 7776,
11	"like_count": 134906,
12	"has_privately_liked": false,
13	"thumbnail_url": "https://instagram.fagc3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/...",
14	"duration": 19.945,
15	"video_versions": [
16		{
17			"height": 852,
18			"type": 101,
19			"url": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/...",
20			"width": 480
21		},
22		{
23			"height": 852,
24			"type": 103,
25			"url": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/...",
26			"width": 480
27		},
28		{
29			"height": 852,
30			"type": 102,
31			"url": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/...",
32			"width": 480
33		}
34	],
35	"raw_data": {...}
36}

Post

1{
2	"kind": "post",
3	"input": "DFNkPgRROOS",
4	"id": "3552655076181205906",
5	"code": "DFNkPgRROOS",
6	"post_type": "post",
7	"owner_id": "314216",
8	"taken_at": 1737730421,
9	"caption": "Grateful to train with you @marcelogarciajiujitsu. Good luck and have fun vs Imanari today!",
10	"like_count": 249896,
11	"comment_count": 4627,
12	"thumbnail_url": "https://scontent-lga3-2.cdninstagram.com/...",
13	"raw_data": {..}
14}

📃 Changelog

Do you have a feature suggestion? Create an issue and let me know!

v0.2

• [✨ New feature] Scrape Reels and posts by their URL or code
• [✨ New feature] A new input was added (include_raw_data) to include or omit the raw data extracted from Instagram
• [✨ New feature] You can now use custom JS functions to skip posts and profiles, or stop crawling at a specific reel
• [✨ New feature] Profile URLs are now accepted as the input
• [🏎️ Performance] The crawler will now gain pace quickly
• [🔧 Fix] Minor improvements to logging

v0.1

• Initial release

❓ FAQ

Can I export the scraped data to Excel?

Sure! Apify allows you to download the results as an Excel spreadsheet. You can also download in CSV, JSON, XML, HTML, JSONL and RSS.

I just found a bug! Can you fix it?

Oh, what a shame! Please create an Issue so I can evaluate what happened.

Can you implement X feature?

Of course! You can use the Issues tab to suggest new features.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor scrapes public data from Instagram pages. Features are susceptible to changes made by Meta.

⛓️‍💥 Known issues

• Currently, it is not possible to scrape private or age restricted accounts, since those are not public.

👀 See also

• Tiktok Profiles Scraper: Another very efficient crawler for scraping TikTok Profiles and their videos.