# LurkAPI, free: Instagram post API

> A page of public posts with captions, media and engagement counts.

LurkAPI's Instagram post API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run LurkAPI through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 236 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.167 per 1,000 posts or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.0018. Zapi charges for each page of results. We count 12 posts on each page to get the $0.0018 price.
[FetchLayer](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Captapi](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/9-monthly/llms.txt) and [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt) are the best Instagram post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lurkapi/free
- [Instagram post API: 10 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.lurkapi.com/v2/instagram/user/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://lurkapi.com/docs/instagram/user-posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: LurkAPI (https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 12
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 87 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A page of public posts with captions, media and engagement counts.

## Data

- Freshness: 3 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Fair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: username, url, first, after
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2/instagram/user/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, media type, media URL, image, video, tagged users, shortcode, post URL, product type, caption, taken at, like count, comment count, play count, view count, accessibility caption, author username, author ID, author name, author profile picture, author verified, coauthors, paid partnership, location, carousel, next cursor, has more

## LurkAPI's plans (4)

- [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 3 minutes
- [LurkAPI, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lurkapi/9-pack/llms.txt): $0.075 per 1,000, 67% complete, 3 minutes
- [LurkAPI, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lurkapi/59-pack/llms.txt): $0.049 per 1,000, 67% complete, 3 minutes
- [LurkAPI, $225 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lurkapi/225-pack/llms.txt): $0.037 per 1,000, 67% complete, 3 minutes

## LurkAPI's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v2/instagram/user/posts`: [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt)

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## LurkAPI: Instagram post API alternatives

- [Serpent API, top-up from $10, Default, GET /api/social/instagram/profile, Instagram Profile with recent posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-10-default-get-api-social-instagram-profile-instagram-profile-with-recent-posts/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scrape Everything, $449 pack, Scale, POST /v1/instagram/reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrape-everything/449-pack-scale-post-v1-instagram-reels/llms.txt): $0.036 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $79 pack, Pro, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/79-pack-pro-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Omkar Cloud, $48 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/omkar-cloud/48-monthly/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs/instagram/user-posts.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs/linkedin/profile.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing