# Scrape Everything, free, POST /v1/instagram/photos: Instagram post API

> An Instagram profile plus its most recent posts (up to 60) with type, caption, thumbnail and engagement counts where available.

Scrape Everything's Instagram post API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Author, Audience.
We haven't run Scrape Everything through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 183 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.163 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), [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt) and [Captapi](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/9-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Instagram post API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrape-everything/free-post-v1-instagram-photos
- [Instagram post API: 10 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapeeverything.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.scrapeeverything.com/v1/instagram/photos`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapeeverything.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapeeverything.com/docs/endpoints/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing#instagram-photos
- Sold by: Scrape Everything (https://scrapeeverything.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Audience: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 60
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: 14 days
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Instagram profile · Instagram post · Instagram reel · Instagram comments · Instagram reels · Instagram reels search · X profile · X posts · X post · TikTok profile · TikTok videos · TikTok video · TikTok video comments · TikTok video transcript · TikTok sound · TikTok hashtag stats · YouTube channel · YouTube videos · YouTube video · YouTube search · YouTube comments · YouTube transcript · YouTube playlist · Facebook page · Telegram profile · Telegram channel posts · Telegram post · Spotify track · Spotify artist · Spotify album · Spotify playlist · Pinterest profile · Pinterest pins · Pinterest pin · Pinterest search · Pinterest board · Twitch channel · Twitch videos · Twitch clips

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: An Instagram profile plus its most recent posts (up to 60) with type, caption, thumbnail and engagement counts where available.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use the Service only for lawful purposes and only for public data. You must not use it, or data obtained through it, to: profile, track, monitor or surveil identifiable individuals, including employees, ex-partners, journalists or activists, collect or infer special-category data (health, religion, ethnicity, political opinions, sexual orientation, biometrics) or data of children, facial recognition or biometric identification, spam, unsolicited messaging or building contact lists for it, doxxing, harassment, discrimination, or decisions on credit, employment, housing or insurance, train or fine-tune AI models unless you have your own lawful basis and honor opt-outs, republish copyrighted media without permission, resell raw personal data. You must not use the Service to: break any law or regulation, or help anyone else do so, harass, stalk, threaten or discriminate against anyone, or monitor or profile individuals without a lawful basis, collect or process personal data in breach of data protection law [...], send spam or unsolicited messages, or build contact lists for that purpose, spread disinformation or manipulate elections or public opinion, infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, personality or other rights of anyone, access content that is not publicly available, such as private accounts or content behind a login, resell, sublicense or offer the Service to third parties as a competing API without our written permission, get around rate limits, quotas or other technical restrictions, interfere with, overload or attack the Service, or use it in a way that could harm us or others

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 50 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username. Optional: limit, cache_days
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/instagram/photos

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: one new account each: anyone 18 or over who can enter a binding contract

## The 35 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits consumed, credits remaining, request ID, from cache, cached at, author ID, author username, author name, author bio, author website, author profile picture, author profile picture HD, author private account, author verified, author business account, author category, author followers, author following, author posts count, author has highlights, author highlights count, post code, post URL, post type, is video, like count, like and view counts disabled, comment count, text, thumbnail, created at, count on page, posts source, has more

## Scrape Everything's plans (5)

- [Scrape Everything, free, POST /v1/instagram/photos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrape-everything/free-post-v1-instagram-photos/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Scrape Everything, $39 pack, Builder, POST /v1/instagram/photos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrape-everything/39-pack-builder-post-v1-instagram-photos/llms.txt): $0.052 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Scrape Everything, $119 pack, Growth, POST /v1/instagram/photos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrape-everything/119-pack-growth-post-v1-instagram-photos/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Scrape Everything, $449 pack, Scale, POST /v1/instagram/photos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrape-everything/449-pack-scale-post-v1-instagram-photos/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Scrape Everything, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/instagram/photos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrape-everything/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-instagram-photos/llms.txt): 83% complete, live

## Scrape Everything's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/instagram/photos`: [Scrape Everything, free, POST /v1/instagram/photos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrape-everything/free-post-v1-instagram-photos/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/instagram/reels`: [Scrape Everything, free, POST /v1/instagram/reels](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrape-everything/free-post-v1-instagram-reels/llms.txt)

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## Scrape Everything: Instagram post API alternatives

- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly, Pro monthly, POST /instagram/v1/posts, posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/15-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Serpent API, top-up from $100, Growth, GET /api/social/instagram/profile, Instagram Profile with recent posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-100-growth-get-api-social-instagram-profile-instagram-profile-with-recent-posts/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Omkar Cloud, $148 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/omkar-cloud/148-monthly/llms.txt): $0.031 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack, Scale, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/199-pack-scale-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 50% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://scrapeeverything.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeeverything.com/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeeverything.com/docs/caching?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeeverything.com/docs/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeeverything.com/docs/endpoints/instagram?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeeverything.com/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeeverything.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeeverything.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapeeverything.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing