Instagram User Posts

Retrieve an Instagram user's posts with pagination support. Returns post details including media URLs, captions, engagement metrics, and a pagination cursor for fetching more posts.

Endpoint

GET /api/instagram/user/posts
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Parameters

username string Required

Instagram username (without @)

max_id string Optional

Pagination cursor from previous response (next_max_id)

Request Examples

<?php

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://scrappa.co/api/instagram/user/posts?username=instagram');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;
<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

$response = Http::withHeaders([
    'x-api-key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
])->get('https://scrappa.co/api/instagram/user/posts?username=instagram');

return $response->json();
fetch('https://scrappa.co/api/instagram/user/posts?username=instagram', {
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
  }
})
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data))
  .catch(error => console.error('Error:', error));
const axios = require('axios');

axios.get('https://scrappa.co/api/instagram/user/posts?username=instagram', {
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
  }
})
  .then(response => console.log(response.data))
  .catch(error => console.error('Error:', error));
import requests

headers = {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
}

response = requests.get('https://scrappa.co/api/instagram/user/posts?username=instagram', headers=headers)
print(response.json())
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'json'

uri = URI.parse('https://scrappa.co/api/instagram/user/posts?username=instagram')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request['x-api-key'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
  http.request(request)
end

puts JSON.parse(response.body)
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    client := &http.Client{}
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://scrappa.co/api/instagram/user/posts?username=instagram", nil)
    req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE")

    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}
curl -X GET 'https://scrappa.co/api/instagram/user/posts?username=instagram' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'

Response Schema

JSON Response 200 OK 
{
    "success": true,
    "posts": [
        {
            "id": "3819535222330010870",
            "shortcode": "DUBtwxGEqz2",
            "media_type": "video",
            "caption": "Post caption text...",
            "hashtags": [
                "instagram",
                "reels"
            ],
            "taken_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00+00:00",
            "like_count": 125000,
            "comment_count": 3500,
            "play_count": 5000000,
            "media": [
                {
                    "type": "video",
                    "thumbnail_url": "https://...",
                    "video_url": "https://..."
                }
            ],
            "location": {
                "id": "123456",
                "name": "Los Angeles, California"
            },
            "author": {
                "username": "instagram"
            },
            "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/instagram/p/DUBtwxGEqz2/"
        }
    ],
    "posts_count": 12,
    "more_available": true,
    "next_max_id": "QVFDcF..."
}

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