Instagram Reels Scraper

Overview

An Apify actor that scrapes Instagram Reels to extract structured metadata, engagement analytics, and technical media details. It's designed for developers, data analysts, or researchers who need to programmatically gather Reels data for analysis, databases, or business intelligence.

Key Features

• Metadata Extraction: Captures titles, descriptions, unique IDs, and original URLs.
• Uploader Info: Gets creator display names, unique IDs, and profile URLs.
• Engagement Analytics: Pulls like counts, comment counts, and view counts.
• Timing Data: Provides precise duration (in seconds and HH:MM:SS format), upload date, and Unix timestamp.
• Technical Media Details: Extracts available video and audio formats, resolutions (e.g., 360p, 720p), codec information, and supports DASH streaming formats.
• Structured Output: Returns clean JSON, ready for integration into databases or further processing.

How to Use

Configure the actor using a JSON input object. The primary parameter is an array of Reel URLs to scrape.

Input Configuration

{
  "reel_urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI4WihvBwKC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link",
      "method": "GET"
    }
  ]
}

Input Specifications:
* reel_urls (Array, Required): List of Instagram Reel URLs.
* url (String, Required): A valid Instagram Reel URL.
* method (String, Required): HTTP method; use "GET".

Input/Output

Output Structure

The actor returns an array of objects, each containing the scraped data for a single Reel.

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI4WihvBwKC/",
    "source": "instagram",
    "data": {
      "identity": {
        "id": "DI4WihvBwKC",
        "webpage_url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI4WihvBwKC/",
        "title": "Video by photoshop",
        "description": "tiny toggles, BIG changes..."
      },
      "uploader": {
        "uploader": "Creator Name",
        "uploader_id": "unique_creator_id",
        "uploader_url": "https://www.instagram.com/creator_profile/"
      },
      "stats": {
        "like_count": 15000,
        "comment_count": 320,
        "view_count": 250000
      },
      "timing": {
        "duration_seconds": 27,
        "duration_hms": "00:00:27",
        "upload_date": "20231015",
        "timestamp": 1697385600
      }
      // ... additional media format data
    }
  }
]

Key Output Fields

• identity.id: The unique Instagram Reel identifier.
• identity.title / identity.description: The Reel's title and caption.
• uploader.uploader / uploader.uploader_id: Creator's display name and unique ID.
• stats.like_count, stats.comment_count, stats.view_count: Engagement metrics.
• timing.duration_seconds, timing.upload_date: Media length and publication date.