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ScrapingIsNotACrime pricing and alternatives: Instagram post API, timeline

ScrapingIsNotACrime's sitellms.txtBest Instagram post API in 2026: pricing comparedScrapingIsNotACrime: Instagram post API alternatives

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 postsWe rank 118 plans by price. EveryInfra's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.0025. EveryInfra charges for each page of results. We count 200 posts on each page to get the $0.0025 price.FetchLayer, Captapi and ScrapeCreators are the best Instagram post API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ScrapingIsNotACrime's 6 plans
Call: GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline one of ScrapingIsNotACrime's 2 calls for this API
API: Instagram post API one of ScrapingIsNotACrime's 14 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the posts from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Media, Engagement.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send username to GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline. You can also send count and cursor. The call returns the account's posts.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScrapingIsNotACrime: Instagram post API alternatives

The table starts with ScrapingIsNotACrime's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 posts closest to ScrapingIsNotACrime's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack, Scale, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timelineReefAPI, $15 monthlyOmkar Cloud, $148 monthlyFetchLayer, $500 monthlyHasData, $2,490 yearly
$ per 1,000 posts$0.033$0.03$0.031$0.042$0.058
Completeness50%83%100%83%83%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$199$15$148$500$2,490
Enough for120,000 pages10,000 pages a month400,000 pages a month1,000,000 pages a month300,000 pages a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted partiesanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyone

Every Instagram post API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. scrapingisnotacrime.com/docs
  2. scrapingisnotacrime.com/llms.txt
  3. scrapingisnotacrime.com/mcp
  4. scrapingisnotacrime.com/pricing
  5. scrapingisnotacrime.com/sdks/python
  6. scrapingisnotacrime.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Text
  • Media
  • Engagement
  • Analytics, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Audience, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perpage of 50
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: GET /instagram/profile/{username} · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/contact · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline/latest · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/highlights · GET /instagram/highlights/{highlightId} · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/media/{mediaId} · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode} · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode}/download · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode}/id · GET /instagram/media/id/{mediaId} · GET /instagram/reels/{shortcode} · GET /tiktok/profile/{username} · GET /tiktok/video/{videoId} · GET /youtube/channel/{handle}/videos · GET /appstore/search · GET /appstore/reviews · GET /github/profiles/{handle} · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/followers · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/following · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/repositories · GET /github/repositories · GET /github/trending/repositories · GET /hackernews/feeds/{feed} · GET /hackernews/items/{id} · GET /hackernews/search · GET /hackernews/users/{username} · GET /hackernews/users/{username}/submissions · GET /hackernews/users/{username}/comments · GET /bluesky/profiles/{handle} · GET /bluesky/profiles/{handle}/posts · GET /twitch/profiles/{handle} · GET /twitch/profiles/{handle}/videos · GET /linktree/profiles/{handle}
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWalks a profile's full post history page by page.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the Service for any lawful purpose, including but not limited to: Market research and competitive analysis, Brand monitoring and social listening, Academic and journalistic research on publicly available data, Building data pipelines, dashboards, and analytics products, Training machine learning models on public data, Content aggregation and curation tools, Influencer discovery and audience analysis. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the retrieved data complies with applicable laws in your jurisdiction [...] You must not use the Service to: Stalk, harass, or build surveillance tools targeting specific individuals, Compile data for spam, phishing, or unsolicited outreach campaigns, Attempt to access private, non-public, or login-gated content, Circumvent any platform's authentication or access controls, Resell API access, proxy our endpoints, or build a competing API service using our infrastructure, Collect data of minors for any commercial or profiling purpose, Use the Service in any way that violates applicable law, including data protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, etc.), Automate bulk personal data harvesting for purposes of identity theft or fraud [...] Data retrieved through the Service may be subject to the intellectual property rights of the originating platform or content creator. You are responsible for ensuring your downstream use of retrieved data complies with applicable IP law and the terms of service of the source platform.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 pages, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendusername. Optional: count, cursor
MethodGET
Path/instagram/profile/{username}/timeline
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post code, post type, text, like count, comment count, latest comments, location, image, created at, has more, next cursor

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