# Scrapingdog, free: Instagram post API

> Scrape public Instagram posts including captions, likes, and media URLs.

Scrapingdog's Instagram post API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement.
We rank 65 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.003. Litescrape charges for each page of results. We count 50 posts on each page to get the $0.003 price.
[Captapi](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/9-monthly/llms.txt), [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt) and [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) are the best instagram post API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/free
- [Best instagram post API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapingdog.com/instagram`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/instagram-posts-scraper-api/
- Sold by: Scrapingdog (https://www.scrapingdog.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 60 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Scrape public Instagram posts including captions, likes, and media URLs.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: While your paid subscription is active, Scrapingdog grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide license to access, store, display, analyze, and redistribute, commercially or otherwise, the publicly available data returned by Scrapingdog’s API (“Licensed Data”) [...] You may present, transform, or combine the Licensed Data in any manner, provided that you do not add or alter data points in a way that would misrepresent the information actually returned by Scrapingdog’s API or cause harm to third parties [...] You agree not to use any data obtained through Scrapingdog in a manner that (a) discloses private or sensitive personal information, or (b) harms individual or public sentiments, violates applicable laws, or otherwise causes injury.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: id, next_page_token
- Method: GET
- Path: /instagram

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

text, like count, media URL

## Scrapingdog's plans (56)

- [Scrapingdog, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $40 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/40-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/90-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/200-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $350 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/350-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/500-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/1000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $1,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/1500-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $2,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/2000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $2,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/2500-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $3,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/3000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $4,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/4000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $5,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/5000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $6,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/6000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $7,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/7000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $8,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/8000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $9,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/9000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $10,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/10000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $12,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/12000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $14,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/14000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
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- [Scrapingdog, $26,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/26000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $28,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/28000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $30,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/30000-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $400 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/400-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $900 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/900-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
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- [Scrapingdog, $3,500 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/3500-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
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- [Scrapingdog, $25,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/25000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
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- [Scrapingdog, $40,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/40000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $50,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/50000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $60,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/60000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $70,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/70000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $80,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/80000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $90,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/90000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $100,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/100000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $120,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/120000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $140,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/140000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $160,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/160000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $180,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/180000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $200,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/200000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
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- [Scrapingdog, $280,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/280000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $300,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/300000-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapingdog, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete

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

- `GET /instagram`: [Scrapingdog, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)

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## Scrapingdog: Instagram post API alternatives

- [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
- [Scrappa, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [lobstr.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Desearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/desearch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

- https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/instagram-posts-scraper-api/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/linkedin-scraper-api/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/llms.txt
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/terms/