Instagram Reels Scraper

ℹ️ About An efficient and straightforward Actor for scraping Instagram posts, profiles and Reels, designed with performance in mind. ## ✨ Features - Retrieve profile stats such as followers, bio, username, and links. - Scrape reels, including likes, play counts, comments, captions, and music metadata. - Choose the number of reels to scrape per profile. - Scrape thousands of profiles and posts seamlessly. ## ⚙️ Inputs - profiles: A list of Instagram usernames or URLs to scrape. - reels_count: Define the target number of reels to scrape per profile. - target: Choose to scrape profiles only, posts only or both. - post_urls: Scrape Instagram posts (or reels) using their URL or code. - include_raw_data: Include raw data collected from Instagram in the final results. ### Example: This input will scrape zuck's profile, 8 of the latest reels from his feed, and one post with the code DFNkPgRROOS: json { "profiles": [ "zuck" ], "target": "all", "reels_count": 8, "post_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DFNkPgRROOS" ], "include_raw_data": true, "custom_functions": "{ shouldSkip: (data) => false, shouldContinue: (data) => true }" } ### Custom functions This is an advanced parameter that you can use to modify the crawler's behavior. With custom functions, you can skip a post or profile based on its data or stop crawling a profile's reels when a certain condition is met. For example, you can skip posts if they don't have music metadata: javascript { shouldSkip: (data) => data.kind == 'post' && !data.music_metadata } Or stop crawling when it reaches the shortcode of a post: javascript { shouldContinue: (data) => data.code != 'codeToStopCrawling' } The data argument is the same of an item on the final dataset (see Outputs). ### Tips - The actor is optimized for bulk scraping. Running it with multiple profiles simultaneously is significantly faster than processing one profile at a time. - To optimize costs, this actor is memory-efficient and can run smoothly with just 256MB to 512MB of memory allocated. ## 📄 Outputs ### Profile json { "kind": "profile", "input": "zuck", "id": "314216", "is_private": false, "username": "zuck", "full_name": "Mark Zuckerberg", "biography": "", "bio_links": [], "followers": 15534658, "following": 610, "profile_pic": "https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/...", "raw_data": {...} } ### Reel json { "kind": "post", "id": "3548364142010150900_314216", "code": "DE-UmMaP6_0", "post_type": "clips", "owner_id": "314216", "taken_at": 1737218208, "caption": "Send it", "play_count": 4456434, "comment_count": 7776, "like_count": 134906, "has_privately_liked": false, "thumbnail_url": "https://instagram.fagc3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/...", "duration": 19.945, "video_versions": [ { "height": 852, "type": 101, "url": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/...", "width": 480 }, { "height": 852, "type": 103, "url": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/...", "width": 480 }, { "height": 852, "type": 102, "url": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/...", "width": 480 } ], "raw_data": {...} } ### Post json { "kind": "post", "input": "DFNkPgRROOS", "id": "3552655076181205906", "code": "DFNkPgRROOS", "post_type": "post", "owner_id": "314216", "taken_at": 1737730421, "caption": "Grateful to train with you @marcelogarciajiujitsu. Good luck and have fun vs Imanari today!", "like_count": 249896, "comment_count": 4627, "thumbnail_url": "https://scontent-lga3-2.cdninstagram.com/...", "raw_data": {..} } ## 📃 Changelog Do you have a feature suggestion? Create an issue and let me know! ### v1.1.0 - ✨ Added ability to filter reels by date range - 🔧 Fixed timeout issues during scraping - 🔧 Improved handling of restricted Instagram accounts ### v1.0.0 - ✨ Added support for scraping individual Reels and posts via URL or code - ✨ Introduced new include_raw_data option to control raw data inclusion in results - ✨ Added custom JavaScript functions for post/profile filtering and crawl control - ✨ Added support for Instagram profile URLs as input - 🏎️ Optimized crawler performance for faster scraping - 🔧 Enhanced logging functionality - ### v0.1 - Initial release ## ❓ FAQ ### Can I export the scraped data to Excel? Sure! Apify allows you to download the results as an Excel spreadsheet. You can also download in CSV, JSON, XML, HTML, JSONL and RSS. ### I just found a bug! Can you fix it? Oh, what a shame! Please create an Issue, so I can evaluate what happened. ### Can you implement X feature? Of course! You can use the Issues tab to suggest new features. ## ⚠️ Disclaimer This Actor scrapes public data from Instagram pages. Features are susceptible to changes made by Meta. ## ⛓️‍💥 Known issues - Currently, it is not possible to scrape private or age-restricted accounts, since those are not public. ## 👀 See also - TikTok Scraper: Another very efficient crawler for scraping TikTok Profiles and their videos.