# ScrapeField, free: Instagram post API

> Fetch recent posts and Reels by one Instagram account: shortcode, permalink, media_type, caption, timestamp, media_url, carousel children, like_count, comments_count, view_count, hashtags, mentions and the paid-partnership label.

ScrapeField's Instagram post API on its Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run ScrapeField 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/scrapefield/free
- [Instagram post API: 10 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapefield.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapefield.com/v1/instagram/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapefield.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapefield.com/docs/instagram/posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapeField (https://scrapefield.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 24
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 44 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch recent posts and Reels by one Instagram account: shortcode, permalink, media_type, caption, timestamp, media_url, carousel children, like_count, comments_count, view_count, hashtags, mentions and the paid-partnership label.

## Data

- Freshness: 3 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do not use it to target, harass or endanger individual people. Not allowed: Targeting an individual. Surveillance of a specific person, building a dossier, stalking, or anything whose point is to follow one human being around. Harassment. Assembling contact details in order to contact people who have asked not to be contacted, or to enable anyone else to. Discrimination. Using this data to make or inform decisions about employment, credit, housing or insurance for an individual [...] Sensitive inference. Deriving or targeting on health, sexuality, religion, political opinion, trade union membership or immigration status. Re-selling the raw feed. Build a product on it, do not resell our responses as a data feed. [...] Anything illegal where you are, or where the person is. What you are responsible for: Having a lawful basis for the personal data you ask us for, and for what you do with it afterwards. Your own compliance with the terms of any platform you have a relationship with. [...] Staying inside the acceptable use policy.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2,000 credits
- Enough for: about 666 pages
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of username or url. Optional: limit, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: anyone who verifies an email

## The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post code, post URL, post type, text, created at, author username, media URL, thumbnail, children, video duration, like count, comment count, view count, hashtags, mentions, location, paid partnership, next cursor

## ScrapeField's plans (5)

- [ScrapeField, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [ScrapeField, $39 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapefield/39-pack/llms.txt): $0.098 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [ScrapeField, $149 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapefield/149-pack/llms.txt): $0.075 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [ScrapeField, $749 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapefield/749-pack/llms.txt): $0.063 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours
- [ScrapeField, $2,199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapefield/2199-pack/llms.txt): $0.055 per 1,000, 83% complete, 3 hours

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

- `GET /v1/instagram/posts`: [ScrapeField, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)

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- [ScrapeField: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
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## ScrapeField: Instagram post API alternatives

- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $25 pack, Growth, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/25-pack-growth-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 50% 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
- [HasData, $2,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/hasdata/2490-yearly/llms.txt): $0.058 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [LiveDune, $60 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/livedune/60-monthly/llms.txt): $0.06 per 1,000, 67% complete, 1 hour

## 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://scrapefield.com/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/docs/caching?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/docs/instagram/posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/docs/limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/docs/linkedin/profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing