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"title": "Instagram Scraper · Posts, Reels, Profiles & More",
"description": "Scrape anything public on Instagram in one run: profiles, posts, reels, comments, hashtags, places and sounds — mixed links or usernames, or a search. Saves and shares on reels; each row at the price of its kind. Works with the input of Apify's Instagram Scraper. No login.",
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"description": "Anything, one per line: a profile (natgeo or its link), a post or reel link, a hashtag (#skincare or its link), a place link or a sound link. Each line becomes rows of its own kind.",
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"reels",
"details",
"comments",
"mentions",
"stories"
],
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"description": "The same choice as in Apify's Instagram Scraper. Post and reel links always return the post itself unless you choose Comments.",
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"title": "Only posts newer than",
"type": "string",
"description": "A date (2026-10-01) or a period (7 days, 2 weeks). Empty — no date limit. Older pinned items are left out too."
},
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"description": "A date (2026-09-01) or a period (30 days). With “Only items newer than” — a date range. Newer items are skipped and aren't charged."
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"description": "Leave out the items the creator pinned to the top of the profile.",
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},
"search": {
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"profile",
"place",
"user",
"reel"
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},
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"type": "boolean",
"description": "For scheduled monitoring: rows you already received in earlier runs with the same input are skipped and not charged.",
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"datasetId": {
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"description": "Pick the dataset of an earlier run (or paste its ID). We take links and usernames from url, inputUrl, profileUrl or username — rows of any Instagram Actor."
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"minimum": 10,
"maximum": 3600,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Stop after this many seconds and return the results collected so far — you pay only for them. Handy for AI agents with a short tool timeout. Empty — run until everything is collected."
}
}
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"type": "string"
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"example": "READY"
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"type": "object",
"properties": {
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"type": "string",
"example": "API"
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"userAgent": {
"type": "string"
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}
},
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