# ScrapingIsNotACrime, free, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline: Instagram post API

> Walks a profile's full post history page by page.

ScrapingIsNotACrime'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 125 plans by price. [EveryInfra's $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/everyinfra/500-pack-monthly-top-up-discount-10-off-from-500/llms.txt) 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](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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline
- [Best Instagram post API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapingisnotacrime.com/v1/instagram/profile/{username}/timeline`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/docs
- Sold by: ScrapingIsNotACrime (https://scrapingisnotacrime.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Walks a profile's full post history page by page.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username. Optional: count, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## ScrapingIsNotACrime's plans (6)

- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, free, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $5 pack, Starter, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/5-pack-starter-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline/llms.txt): $0.067 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [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
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $79 pack, Pro, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/79-pack-pro-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack, Scale, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/199-pack-scale-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, contact us, Volume pricing, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/contact-us-volume-pricing-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline/llms.txt): 50% complete, live

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

- `GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline`: [ScrapingIsNotACrime, free, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline/llms.txt)
- `GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline/latest`: [ScrapingIsNotACrime, free, GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline/latest](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline-latest/llms.txt)

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- [ScrapingIsNotACrime: TikTok profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime: Twitch profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/twitch-profile-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free/llms.txt)
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- [ScrapingIsNotACrime: Instagram post API pricing, 6 plans, timeline](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free-get-instagram-profile-username-timeline/llms.txt)

## ScrapingIsNotACrime: Instagram post API alternatives

- [ReefAPI, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/reefapi/15-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Omkar Cloud, $148 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/omkar-cloud/148-monthly/llms.txt): $0.031 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serpent API, top-up from $10, Default, GET /api/social/instagram/profile, Instagram Profile with recent posts](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-10-default-get-api-social-instagram-profile-instagram-profile-with-recent-posts/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.042 per 1,000, 83% 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 2026-10-31.

- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/docs
- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/llms.txt
- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/mcp
- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/pricing
- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/sdks/python
- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/terms