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Instagram Scraper

Extract public profile data, post metadata, and engagement metrics from Instagram. Powered by spider-browser .

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instagram.com target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

instagram-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.instagram.com/nasa/");
await page.content(12000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const profile = {
    username: document.querySelector("header h2")?.textContent?.trim(),
    bio: document.querySelector("header section > div > span")?.textContent?.trim(),
    stats: [],
  };
  document.querySelectorAll("header li span span").forEach(el => {
    profile.stats.push(el.textContent?.trim());
  });
  const posts = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("article img[srcset]").forEach(el => {
    const alt = el.getAttribute("alt");
    const src = el.getAttribute("src");
    if (alt) posts.push({ alt: alt.slice(0, 200), src });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ profile, posts: posts.slice(0, 12) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from instagram.com with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/instagram.com/

Post captionLikesCommentsTimestampImage URLUsername

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/instagram.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/instagram.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/instagram.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

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