Instagram post comments

Beta GET /v1/instagram/post/comments

GET /v1/instagram/post/comments

The first page of a post's comments (about 14, in Instagram's own order), with each comment's likes; reply counts are null (Instagram sends them empty to logged-out visitors). Instagram offers no logged-out way to the next page, so has_more is always false and the total is in the post's stats.comments. include_replies is accepted and ignored: replies need a login.

• Cost: 1 credit
• Status: Beta. Built and tested against recorded responses; the shape may still gain fields.
• Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
• Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

Send at least one of url, id. If you send several, the first listed is used and the rest are ignored.

Every request also accepts:

• cursor: the cursor from the previous page (Pagination).
• trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
• raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
• max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/instagram/post/comments" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfF3eqGSKKc/"

import os
import requests

params = {
    "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfF3eqGSKKc/",
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/instagram/post/comments",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
    params=params,
)
body = res.json()

if body["ok"]:
    print(body["data"])
else:
    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/instagram/post/comments");
url.search = new URLSearchParams({
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfF3eqGSKKc/"
}).toString();
const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();

if (body.ok) {
  console.log(body.data);
} else {
  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "SocialScrape Instagram post comments",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/instagram/post/comments",
        "sendQuery": true,
        "queryParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "url",
              "value": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfF3eqGSKKc/"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "x-api-key",
              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened, other people's names and handles are replaced. Status 200.

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_07b46edbabedfce260181380",
  "data": {
    "object": "list",
    "items": [
      {
        "object": "comment",
        "platform": "instagram",
        "id": "18125925943986939",
        "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DfF3eqGSKKc/c/18125925943986939/",
        "post_id": "DfF3eqGSKKc",
        "parent_id": null,
        "author": {
          "id": "1000000001",
          "handle": "sample_user",
          "name": "Sample User",
          "url": null,
          "avatar_url": null,
          "verified": false
        },
        "text": "❤️❤️",
        "published_at": "2026-10-30T01:54:24Z",
        "stats": {
          "likes": 0,
          "replies": null,
          "dislikes": null
        },
        "is_pinned": null,
        "is_by_creator": false,
        "extra": null
      },
      {
        "object": "comment",
        "platform": "instagram",
        "id": "17995873727868359",
        "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DfF3eqGSKKc/c/17995873727868359/",
        "post_id": "DfF3eqGSKKc",
        "parent_id": null,
        "author": {
          "id": "1000000001",
          "handle": "sample_user",
          "name": "Sample User",
          "url": null,
          "avatar_url": null,
          "verified": false
        },
        "text": "🔥😍🔥",
        "published_at": "2026-10-30T01:13:04Z",
        "stats": {
          "likes": 1,
          "replies": null,
          "dislikes": null
        },
        "is_pinned": null,
        "is_by_creator": false,
        "extra": null
      }
    ],
    "cursor": null,
    "has_more": false,
    "parent": null
  },
  "cursor": null,
  "has_more": false
}

Response#

A list of Comment objects in data.items, with data.cursor and data.has_more.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

Also served at#

These paths answer the same request, so code written for other APIs keeps working: /v2/instagram/post/comments. See Switching from ScrapeCreators.

Related endpoints#

• Instagram profile (GET /v1/instagram/profile)
• Instagram profile by user id (GET /v1/instagram/basic-profile)
• Instagram profile post count (GET /v1/instagram/profile/post-count)
• Instagram profile posts (GET /v1/instagram/profile/posts)
• Instagram profile reels (GET /v1/instagram/profile/reels)
• Instagram post or reel details (GET /v1/instagram/post)
• Instagram reel transcript (GET /v1/instagram/post/transcript)
• Instagram popular topic (GET /v1/instagram/search/popular)