Instagram Scraper Python

Scrape Instagram posts with Python. Give a public account such as natgeo and get its recent posts with caption, likes, comments, views, media URLs and hashtags, or fetch single posts by URL. No login, no browser and no proxy: the script sends one request to the EveryInfra API and waits for the result.

Also covers: scrape Instagram posts with Python, Instagram scraper API.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/everyinfra/instagram-scraper-python.git
cd instagram-scraper-python
pip install -r requirements.txt
export EVERYINFRA_API_KEY=your_key   # get one at everyinfra.com
python main.py posts natgeo --limit 30 --out posts.csv
python main.py post https://www.instagram.com/p/<shortcode>/ --out post.json

Get an API key: everyinfra.com/en/docs. Without --out, the script prints the first three rows as JSON.

Price

Call	Price per 1,000 calls	Rows per call
instagram/user_posts	$0.56	30 in our test
instagram/post	$0.56	1 in our test

• You pay per call, not per month. Failed calls and empty results are not charged.
• New accounts can claim $1 of trial credit: create an account, star everyinfra-agent-plugins and seo-skills, then claim it in the console. It is valid for 24 hours and needs no card. See pricing.

What you get

user_posts

Field	Meaning
post_id	Post ID on the platform.
url	Link to the record on the platform.
text	Body text with HTML removed, returned in full and never cut short (on a few platforms the list results themselves carry only an excerpt; the platform's field notes say so).
media_type	Type of media, such as image or video.
like_count	Likes. null means the platform or this capability does not disclose it; it is not 0.
comment_count	Comments. null means not disclosed, not 0.
view_count	Views or plays. null means not disclosed, not 0.
author_username	Author's username (@handle), usually usable in URLs.
author_name	Author's display name.
posted_at	Publish time in ISO 8601, UTC (for example 2026-08-07T12:34:56+00:00). Non-standard strings from the platform are passed through as is, so parse defensively. null means the platform does not disclose it.
location	Location description passed through as is; the format varies by platform.
id	The record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms.
image_url	Image link. Capabilities with several images may return an image_urls array.
video_url	Video file link.
author_id	Author's unique ID on the platform.
author_follower_count	Author's follower count. null means not disclosed.
hashtags	Hashtags in the text, in order of appearance; absent when there are none.

Also returned, named as on the platform: width, height, is_comments_disabled, top_comments.

Full parameter list: Instagram user posts API.

post

Field	Meaning
post_id	Post ID on the platform.
url	Link to the record on the platform.
text	Body text with HTML removed, returned in full and never cut short (on a few platforms the list results themselves carry only an excerpt; the platform's field notes say so).
media_type	Type of media, such as image or video.
like_count	Likes. null means the platform or this capability does not disclose it; it is not 0.
comment_count	Comments. null means not disclosed, not 0.
view_count	Views or plays. null means not disclosed, not 0.
author_username	Author's username (@handle), usually usable in URLs.
author_name	Author's display name.
posted_at	Publish time in ISO 8601, UTC (for example 2026-08-07T12:34:56+00:00). Non-standard strings from the platform are passed through as is, so parse defensively. null means the platform does not disclose it.
location	Location description passed through as is; the format varies by platform.
id	The record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms.
image_url	Image link. Capabilities with several images may return an image_urls array.
video_url	Video file link.
author_id	Author's unique ID on the platform.
author_follower_count	Author's follower count. null means not disclosed.
hashtags	Hashtags in the text, in order of appearance; absent when there are none.

Also returned, named as on the platform: width, height, is_comments_disabled, top_comments.

Full parameter list: Instagram post API.

Tested

We ran both commands against the live API before publishing this repository (times in Singapore time, UTC+8).

Command	Run at (SGT)	Rows	Charged
posts natgeo --limit 30	2026-11-08 03:36	30	$0.000556
post https://www.instagram.com/p/<shortcode>/	2026-11-08 03:37	1	$0.000556

First row of the user_posts result (long text cut, author fields left out of this sample):

{
  "post_id": "DfbPDC4krJI",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DfbPDC4krJI/",
  "text": "Presented by National Geographic Society in partnership with @Rolex. \n\nOur oceans cover more than 70% of ou...",
  "media_type": "video",
  "like_count": 15811,
  "comment_count": 33,
  "posted_at": "2026-11-07T17:00:03+00:00",
  "id": "4024876871938388552_18091046",
  "width": 1080,
  "height": 1920
}

How it works

Every call is one request. everyinfra.py wraps it in about 60 lines of requests:

curl -X POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"platform": "instagram", "action": "user_posts", "params": {"username": "natgeo"}}'

• Slow actions (Instagram user_posts, for example) answer with a job_id. The script polls GET /api/v1/jobs/{job_id} every 5 seconds; polling is free.
• Errors come back as JSON with a code, a message and whether you were charged. A missing parameter returns 422 before any charge.
• The same key also works over MCP for Claude, Cursor and other AI agents: docs.

More

• Instagram API on EveryInfra: every Instagram action, with prices and live health
• Other examples: google-maps-scraper · tiktok-trends-api · tiktok-scraper-python · douyin-api-python

License

MIT