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Optional — you almost certainly do not need this. Comments and their nested replies are both scraped without any login. Cookies are kept only as a fallback for the rare thread the cookieless route cannot serve. If you do want to supply them, export a logged-in instagram.com session with the EditThisCookie extension (must include sessionid and csrftoken) and paste the whole array here.

" }, "proxy": { "title": "Proxy configuration (optional override)", "type": "object", "description": "Leave empty — the actor already routes all traffic through its own built-in residential proxy at no extra cost to you. Only set this if you want to use your own proxies." }, "includeReplies": { "title": "Include nested replies", "type": "boolean", "description": "

On by default. Replies under each comment are scraped without a login and appear as their own rows, right after the comment they answer. Replies count toward Max number of comments like any other row, so turn this off if you would rather spend the whole budget on top-level comments.

", "default": true }, "includeCommentLikers": { "title": "Include who liked each comment", "type": "boolean", "description": "

Off by default. Adds comment_likers to every comment that has at least one like — username, full name, user id, profile picture and the verified and private flags for each person. Comments with no likes are skipped, so this costs nothing on a quiet post, but on a busy one it is one lookup per liked comment and the run takes longer. Paid Apify plans only.

", "default": false }, "maxCommentLikers": { "title": "Max likers per comment", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer", "description": "

How many likers to list per comment, fetched 50 at a time. A comment with more likes than this is cut off and marked with comment_likers_complete: false, so a trimmed list never reads as the whole one. Only used when the option above is on.

", "default": 50 }, "commentCountsOnly": { "title": "Comment counts only", "type": "boolean", "description": "Return one row per post with its comment count, instead of the comments themselves. Answers ten posts per request, so counting a large batch is fast and cheap. Use it to find which posts are worth a full comment scrape.", "default": false } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_UNBLOCKER_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_UNBLOCKER_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } }