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Instagram ScraperExtract Instagram posts, reels, profiles, places, hashtags, carousels, and comments. Get data from Instagram using one or more Instagram URLs or search queries: content, context, metrics, metadata. Export scraped data, run the scraper via API, schedule and monitor runs or integrate with other tools.
Publisher description, verbatimon Instagram, by users in the last 30 days among actors classified to this platform.
best #1 for “download”
Fast, easy, and generally reliable at retrieving usernames, IDs and posts, but it often misses fields and comments, is constrained by limits, shows accuracy and coverage gaps, and can be costly with limited support.
| Theme | Sentiment | Said | What they mean |
|---|---|---|---|
| Does it return everything | 5 praised · 19 complained | 24 | retrieves usernames, IDs, and postsscrapes only the first 15 comments“For some reason it can't gather all the data adequately, some reels can't see the total mass. Views do not match what I see on the account. Probably because of the fact that it is necessary to collect data from an authorized account.” — 3/5 |
| Caps and ceilings | 0 praised · 9 complained | 9 | restricted by number of posts returnedvideo filtering and resolution limited“Very good scraper. works super fast and reliable. If I had a free wish: there would be an option to scrape only certain months and to be able to set cetrain parameters by an external trigger. e.g. send an email: Scrape "this" IG account in the month of june 2024” — 5/5 |
| Does it run | 7 praised · 8 complained | 15 | generally reliable and returns results consistentlyintermittent failures yielding empty or zero results“The instagram scrapper is working awesomely but the facebook scrapper is having so many issues, and due to that i am unable to upgrade to premium because i required both of these.” — 3/5 |
| Is the data right | 5 praised · 6 complained | 10 | captions and expected results are generally accuratemismatched or outdated post data“I did several different run with the hashtag search and the places search, and they all came back irrelevant. I used the term Australia, and for hashtag and places, and all I get is the same profile /humansofny. Waste of credits” — 1/5 |
| What it supports | 4 praised · 5 complained | 9 | finds profiles, accounts, and post detailsmisses certain account types (e.g., 18+)“I would like this actore to be improved. Since th 18+ account are no longer covered. Hoping they lessen the amount of consumption. Moreover, I hope I can look for a specific niche rather than filling in the accounts for scrape. Using this in n8n” — 3/5 |
| Setup and docs | 8 praised · 4 complained | 12 | easy to use and export resultsno sorting or column-reduction options“I'm still new to all of this, but from what I can tell, it works really well to give me an Excel spreadsheet that I can put into Claude, where I then can work on strategy.” — 5/5 |
| What it costs | 0 praised · 4 complained | 4 | expensive and uses many credits“All of a sudden, we went from a few hundred USD per day to over USD3k!” — 1/5 |
| Does the publisher answer | 0 praised · 1 complained | 1 | slow or no human support response“Keep getting zero results. Waiting for a human to contact me.” — 1/5 |
| How fast | 5 praised · 0 complained | 5 | fast and responsive performance“Works great, gets most of the available data from an Instagram account and does that fairly quickly considering Instagram's restrictions on scrappers.” — 5/5 |
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