# ScrapingDaddy, free, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts: Instagram post API

> Get a page of an Instagram profile's posts with media, captions and engagement counts, plus a cursor for the next page.

ScrapingDaddy'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, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run ScrapingDaddy 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/scrapingdaddy/free-get-v1-instagram-user-posts
- [Instagram post API: 10 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapingdaddy.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapingdaddy.com/v1/instagram/user/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapingdaddy.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.scrapingdaddy.com/api-reference/instagram/user-posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapingDaddy (https://scrapingdaddy.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 12
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 182 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get a page of an Instagram profile's posts with media, captions and engagement counts, plus a cursor for the next page.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: For as long as your paid subscription remains active, ScrapingDaddy grants you a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, revocable license to access, retrieve, store, analyze, and distribute, whether commercially or otherwise, the publicly available data delivered via ScrapingDaddy's API [...] you may not manipulate or supplement data in any way that misrepresents what was actually returned by our API, or that could reasonably cause harm to any third party. [...] you agree not to use any data obtained through ScrapingDaddy to (a) expose, publish, or exploit private or personally sensitive information, or (b) engage in any activity that violates applicable law, causes harm to individuals, or damages public interest.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 pages a month
- Expires: unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle, no rollover

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: userId. Optional: end_cursor, count
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/instagram/user/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 30 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post code, media URL, image, video, is video, thumbnail, text, like count, comment count, view count, created at, location, author username, author ID, author name, author verified, author profile picture, paid partnership, comments disabled, has audio, carousel, coauthors, tagged users, sponsors, alt text, dimensions, product type, next cursor, has more

## ScrapingDaddy's plans (6)

- [ScrapingDaddy, free, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdaddy/free-get-v1-instagram-user-posts/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $15 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdaddy/15-monthly-starter-get-v1-instagram-user-posts/llms.txt): $0.125 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $49 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdaddy/49-monthly-pro-get-v1-instagram-user-posts/llms.txt): $0.082 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $90 monthly, Ultra, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdaddy/90-monthly-ultra-get-v1-instagram-user-posts/llms.txt): $0.075 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $400 monthly, Mega, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdaddy/400-monthly-mega-get-v1-instagram-user-posts/llms.txt): $0.067 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, contact us, Custom, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdaddy/contact-us-custom-get-v1-instagram-user-posts/llms.txt): 83% complete, live

## ScrapingDaddy's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/instagram/user/posts`: [ScrapingDaddy, free, GET /v1/instagram/user/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdaddy/free-get-v1-instagram-user-posts/llms.txt)
- `GET /v2/instagram/user/posts`: [ScrapingDaddy, free, GET /v2/instagram/user/posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdaddy/free-get-v2-instagram-user-posts/llms.txt)

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- [FetchLayer, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.067 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
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## 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://docs.scrapingdaddy.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.scrapingdaddy.com/api-reference/instagram/user-posts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing
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- https://scrapingdaddy.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=instagram-post-api-pricing