# Scrappa, free: Instagram post API

> Retrieve an Instagram user's posts with pagination support. Returns post details including media URLs, captions, engagement metrics, and a pagination cursor for fetching more posts.

Scrappa'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 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/scrappa/free
- [Best instagram post API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-instagram-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrappa.co/pricing
- Request: `GET https://scrappa.co/api/instagram/user/posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrappa.co/pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrappa.co/docs/instagram-api/instagram_user_posts
- Sold by: Scrappa (https://scrappa.co)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 2,378 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve an Instagram user's posts with pagination support. Returns post details including media URLs, captions, engagement metrics, and a pagination cursor for fetching more posts.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to these Terms, we permit you to use API output lawfully obtained through your account in your own commercial or non-commercial applications, websites, and reports. This includes storing and caching output, displaying it to your users, linking to original sources, combining and comparing it with other data, and performing analytics, including AI-assisted analysis. [...] Reselling API output as a standalone dataset or data feed, or reselling access to the Service, requires our written authorization. [...] Public availability and delivery through the API do not, by themselves, establish a right to reuse content. [...] You are responsible for establishing a lawful basis for your use, obtaining any permissions required, and complying with applicable laws and third-party terms that legally apply to your use. This includes any applicable attribution, retention, deletion, redistribution, and AI or text-and-data-mining restrictions. [...] You agree not to: Use the Service for any illegal purpose or in violation of any laws, Violate or infringe upon the rights of others, Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers connected to the Service, Resell or redistribute API output outside the application uses permitted by Section 8 without our written authorization, Use the Service to scrape or collect data in violation of third-party terms of service that legally apply to your use, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Service

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 requests a month
- Enough for: 500 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.32 s

## The call

- You send: username. Optional: max_id
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/instagram/user/posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over

## The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, lookup status, username, post ID, post code, media type, text, hashtags, created at, like count, comment count, play count, view count, media, location ID, location name, location address, location city, location latitude, location longitude, author ID, author username, author name, author profile picture, author verified, coauthors, tagged users, paid partnership, product type, post URL, count on page, has more, next cursor

## Scrappa's plans (11)

- [Scrappa, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Scrappa, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Scrappa, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Scrappa, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Scrappa, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/50-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Scrappa, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/100-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Scrappa, $250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Scrappa, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/500-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Scrappa, $750 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/750-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Scrappa, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/1000-pack/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Scrappa, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete

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

- `GET /api/instagram/user/posts`: [Scrappa, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt)

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- [Captapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/captapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
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- [lobstr.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-10-29.

- https://scrappa.co/apis/linkedin-api
- https://scrappa.co/docs/api.json
- https://scrappa.co/docs/error-handling
- https://scrappa.co/docs/instagram-api/instagram_user_posts
- https://scrappa.co/legal/terms-of-service
- https://scrappa.co/pricing