# Scraper Api, free: Instagram post API

> Get an Instagram user's posts (incl. reels) by handle, paginate via next_max_id (no login).

Scraper Api's Instagram post API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. Scraper Api's docs list 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Media, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run Scraper Api through [our Instagram post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 271 plans for Instagram post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.178 per 1,000 posts or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan 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/scraper-api/free
- [Instagram post API: the 10 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scraper-api.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scraper-api.com/v2/instagram/user/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scraper-api.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.scraper-api.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: Scraper Api (https://scraper-api.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 148 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get an Instagram user's posts (incl. reels) by handle, paginate via next_max_id (no login).

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The customer is solely responsible for the lawful use of the API and the retrieved data and warrants compliance with applicable law, including data-protection and the third-party platforms' terms. Prohibited in particular are: circumventing credit metering or rate controls, reselling raw access, using the data to harass, de-anonymise or harm individuals, and any unlawful, infringing or abusive purpose.

## Plan

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

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: handle
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2/instagram/user/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

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

post ID, shortcode, taken at, media type, like count, comment count, caption, image, author ID, author username, author verified, results returned, has more, next cursor, owner ID, owner username, owner full name, owner private account, owner verified

## Scraper Api's plans (5)

- [Scraper Api, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scraper-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Scraper Api, $49 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scraper-api/49-pack/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [Scraper Api, $99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scraper-api/99-pack/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [Scraper Api, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scraper-api/199-pack/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [Scraper Api, $999 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scraper-api/999-pack/llms.txt): 50% complete, live

## Scraper Api's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v2/instagram/user/posts`: [Scraper Api, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scraper-api/free/llms.txt)

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## Scraper Api: Instagram post API alternatives

- [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Captapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeCreators, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://docs.scraper-api.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scraper-api.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing#pricing
- https://scraper-api.com/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scraper-api.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://scraper-api.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing