Instagram post or reel details API

Q: Which errors can it return?

invalid_params (do not retry), unsupported_url (do not retry), not_found (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.

Q: Is there an SDK call for it?

The preview Python client has client.instagram.post(...) and the TypeScript client client.instagram.post() . Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. The packages are not published yet; plain HTTP works today in any language.

Caption, counts, media, owner, tagged users, co-authors, sound and carousel children of one post or reel.

GETapi.socialscrape.io/v1/instagram/post

Cost: 1 credit
Cached repeats: 0 creditssend max_age_days, results kept 30 days
Failed requests: 0 credits
Status: Betashape may still gain fields

For videos stats.views is the view count of the post's embed page (extra.views_source = embed_views), which differs from the play count of the reels tab.

You send one of url or id.

Request

Send your key in the x-api-key header.

curl

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

Python

import os
import requests

params = {
    "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfF3eqGSKKc/",
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/instagram/post",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
    params=params,
    timeout=60,
)
body = res.json()

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

TypeScript

const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/instagram/post");
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);
}

n8n

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "SocialScrape Instagram post or reel details",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/instagram/post",
        "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": {}
}

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`url`	url	one of	Post or reel URL (/p/..., /reel/..., /tv/...).
`id`	string	one of	Shortcode or numeric media id. Also accepted as `shortcode`, `media_id`.
`include_play_count`	boolean		Set false to skip the extra fetch for the video view count and answer faster.
`region`	string		Two-letter country code (ISO 3166-1) for results that vary by country. Also accepted as `country`, `geo`.

Every request also accepts trim, raw and max_age_days.

Response

Sample from a recorded response, shortened. Values are public data, not yours.

Status 200Sample

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_c79d38f5e72c10e56a98d808",
  "data": {
    "object": "post",
    "platform": "instagram",
    "id": "DfF3eqGSKKc",
    "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfF3eqGSKKc/",
    "type": "reel",
    "author": {
      "id": "673882723",
      "handle": "nasajohnson",
      "name": "NASA’s Johnson Space Center",
      "url": "https://www.instagram.com/nasajohnson/",
      "avatar_url": "https://scontent-ord5-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/11421977_902607023152688_677352411_a.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=f7ccc5&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InBy...",
      "verified": true
    },
    "title": null,
    "text": "More power loading. 🔋\n\nToday, NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk conducted a spacewalk to install the 7th of ...",
    "published_at": "2026-10-29T20:35:35Z",
    "duration_seconds": 41.376,
    "language": null,
    "hashtags": [],
    "mentions": [],
    "stats": {
      "views": 90356,
      "likes": 6271,
      "comments": 64,
      "shares": null,
      "saves": null,
      "dislikes": null
    },
    "media": {
      "thumbnail_url": "https://scontent-ord5-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/865204930_18640535563026724_3353517023594775034_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=7-5&...",
      "video_url": "https://scontent-ord5-2.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t2/f2/m86/AQMgO65IBSO4D1Fg1v8qWRLjCR7N-LaX4H_sPQeyoyjFQE149o094RWHdy1qn9GBy1VHAND2Io7UoTGpUBgIXE-YSbD4UnaCrO694...",
      "audio_url": null,
      "image_urls": null,
      "width": 1080,
      "height": 1920
    },
    "song": {
      "id": "29430201353240150",
      "title": "Original audio",
      "artist": "nasajohnson",
      "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reels/audio/29430201353240150/"
    },
    "location": null,
    "is_pinned": null,
    "is_sponsored": null,
    "extra": {
      "accessibility_caption": "Video by NASA’s Johnson Space Center on October 29, 2026. May be an image of poster, magazine and text.",
      "coauthors": [
        "iss",
        "nasa"
      ],
      "media_id": "4018862241843028636",
      "owner_followers": 1578779,
      "product_type": "clips",
      "published_from": "taken_at"
    }
  },
  "cursor": null,
  "has_more": null
}

Fields

One Post in data.

A field the platform does not give is null, never made up. Extra platform details are in extra.

Field	Type	Always
`object`	`"post"`
`platform`	Platform	yes
`id`	string	yes
`url`	string or null
`type`	`"video"` or `"short"` or `"reel"` or `"image"` or `"carousel"` or `"story"` or `"live"` or `"clip"` or `"text"` or `"link"` or `"tweet"` or `"pin"` or `"community_post"` or `"episode"` or `"unknown"`
`author`	Author or null
`title`	string or null
`text`	string or null
`published_at`	string (ISO 8601 date-time) or null
`duration_seconds`	number or null
`language`	string or null
`hashtags`	string[] or null
`mentions`	string[] or null
`stats`	Stats

Show the other 6 fields

Field	Type	Always	Notes
`media`	Media
`song`	SongRef or null
`location`	Place or null
`is_pinned`	boolean or null
`is_sponsored`	boolean or null
`extra`	object or null

Full field list in the reference for this endpoint and the data models. Errors are listed under Errors.

Questions

Which errors can it return?

invalid_params (do not retry), unsupported_url (do not retry), not_found (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.

Is there an SDK call for it?

The preview Python client has client.instagram.post(...) and the TypeScript client client.instagram.post(). Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. The packages are not published yet; plain HTTP works today in any language.

Can an AI agent call it?

Yes. The MCP server reaches every built endpoint, with the same prices.

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