Get an Instagram post or reel

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Retrieve a public Instagram post or reel with media URLs, caption, author, timestamps, engagement, comments, carousel items, audio, location and co-authors. Use trim for a compact projection and include_comments to select comment enrichment.

GET/v1/instagram/postx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

urlstringrequiredquery

instagram.com post, reel or video permalink (https://www.instagram.com/p/{code}/, /reel/{code}/, /tv/{code}/, optionally prefixed by a username; query strings and fragments ignored).

max 2048 chars

Examplehttps://www.instagram.com/p/ExAmPlE0002/

trimenumquery

true returns the reference's trimmed projection at the top level as xdt_shortcode_media: id, shortcode, __typename, thumbnail_src, display_url, video_url, has_audio, product_type, video_duration, clips_music_attribution_info, is_video, owner, edge_media_to_caption, edge_media_to_parent_comment, edge_media_preview_comment, taken_at_timestamp, edge_media_preview_like, is_paid_partnership and location.

one of: true, false

include_commentsenumquery

Default true. false answers from the media document alone: the comment edges are empty, the comment counters stay, and coverage reports comments_omitted (status partial). Carousels still read the post page for their child shortcodes.

one of: true, false

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation identifier.

HTTP attempts for the operation (profile: one document, plus the page load the first time a handle is seen; basic-profile: one document; post-count: page; posts: page plus document the first time a handle is seen, otherwise the profile document, the session probe and the posts document; reels: document, plus the page when identified by handle; post: document plus page, or the document alone with include_comments=false on non-carousel media; comments: page; highlights: page, plus a document when identified by user id; all including the shared transient retry), decoded bytes and duration.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage for omissions.

statusenum

success, partial, failed, or challenged. HTTP 200 can be partial.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Canonical instagram.com URL of the profile, post or reel.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval time.

Complete means every source field of the operation was returned; comments_first_page_only (status partial) when more comments exist than the first page carries; comments_omitted (status partial) when include_comments=false left the comment edges empty.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

data.xdt_shortcode_media.__typenameenum

Always included.

one of: XDTGraphImage, XDTGraphVideo, XDTGraphSidecar

data.xdt_shortcode_media.idstring

Always included.

data.xdt_shortcode_media.shortcodestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

data.xdt_shortcode_media.is_videoboolean

Always included.

Author projection: id, username, is_verified, profile_pic_url, full_name.

data.xdt_shortcode_media.owner.idstring

Always included.

data.xdt_shortcode_media.owner.usernamestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

data.xdt_shortcode_media.taken_at_timestampinteger

Always included.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, handles, ids, cursors or URLs.
401	`unauthorized`	Invalid API key.
404	`not_found`	Unknown handle, user id or post.
403	`restricted_page`	The page or document is private or gated (private account, gated media, login redirect).
422	`count_estimated_only`	Instagram abbreviates this post count and allow_estimated was not set.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Instagram rate limited the page load or the GraphQL read.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Instagram refused the request with its error shell (status challenged).
502	`operation_unavailable`	Instagram no longer serves the pinned document for this operation.
502	`unsafe_redirect`	Instagram redirected the request somewhere other than the login form.
502	`unsupported_page`	The page or GraphQL result is missing, mismatched or structurally unsupported.
502	`response_too_large`	The decoded responses exceeded the operation's byte budget (1–3 MiB).
502	`payload_too_complex`	The response exceeded the JSON depth or node limits.
502	`request_limit`	The upstream request budget was exhausted.
502	`upstream_error`	Network failure or HTTP 5xx after the single retry.
503	`busy`	All retrieval slots are busy.
504	`timeout`	The 45-second deadline elapsed.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/instagram/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FExAmPlE0002%2F" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/instagram/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FExAmPlE0002%2F",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/instagram/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FExAmPlE0002%2F",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Instagram request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/instagram/post",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/ExAmPlE0002/"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/instagram/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FExAmPlE0002%2F", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/instagram/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FExAmPlE0002%2F"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "xdt_shortcode_media": {
      "__typename": "XDTGraphVideo",
      "__isXDTGraphMediaInterface": "XDTGraphVideo",
      "id": "3000000000000000002",
      "shortcode": "ExAmPlE0002",
      "thumbnail_src": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/example_reel.jpg",
      "display_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/example_reel.jpg",
      "video_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t16/f2/m86/example.mp4",
      "has_audio": true,
      "product_type": "clips",
      "video_duration": 42.5,
      "is_video": true,
      "owner": {
        "id": "1234567890",
        "username": "example",
        "is_verified": true,
        "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/example_s150x150.jpg",
        "full_name": "Example Person"
      },
      "edge_media_to_caption": {
        "edges": [
          {
            "node": {
              "id": "18000000000000002",
              "text": "Example caption",
              "created_at": "1789200000"
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      "created_at": "2026-09-11T20:00:00.000Z",
      "taken_at_timestamp": 1789200000,
      "edge_media_preview_like": {
        "count": 2100,
        "edges": []
      },
      "like_and_view_counts_disabled": false,
      "comment_count": 40,
      "edge_media_preview_comment": {
        "count": 40,
        "edges": [
          {
            "node": {
              "id": "18000000000000003",
              "text": "Example comment",
              "owner": {
                "id": "1234567892",
                "username": "commenter_example",
                "is_verified": false,
                "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/commenter_s150x150.jpg"
              },
              "edge_liked_by": {
                "count": 3
              },
              "created_at": 1789300000
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      "edge_media_to_parent_comment": {
        "count": 40,
        "edges": [
          {
            "node": {
              "id": "18000000000000003",
              "text": "Example comment",
              "owner": {
                "id": "1234567892",
                "username": "commenter_example",
                "is_verified": false,
                "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/commenter_s150x150.jpg"
              },
              "edge_liked_by": {
                "count": 3
              },
              "created_at": 1789300000
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      "edge_media_to_tagged_user": {
        "edges": [
          {
            "node": {
              "id": "1234567891",
              "x": 0.5,
              "y": 0.5,
              "user": {
                "id": "1234567891",
                "username": "tagged_example",
                "is_verified": false,
                "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/tagged_s150x150.jpg",
                "full_name": "Tagged Person"
              }
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      "clips_music_attribution_info": {
        "artist_name": "example",
        "song_name": "Original audio",
        "uses_original_audio": true,
        "should_mute_audio": false,
        "should_mute_audio_reason": "",
        "audio_id": "1000000000000001"
      },
      "clips_metadata": {
        "audio_type": "original_sounds",
        "music_info": null,
        "original_sound_info": {
          "original_audio_title": "Original audio",
          "should_mute_audio": false,
          "audio_asset_id": "1000000000000001",
          "ig_artist": {
            "username": "example",
            "id": "1234567890"
          },
          "is_explicit": false
        },
        "is_shared_to_fb": false
      },
      "is_paid_partnership": false,
      "location": null,
      "coauthor_producers": []
    }
  },
  "status": "partial",
  "requestId": "0b7f1e5c-3c2a-4a4e-9c9b-1f3d2c0a8e21",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/example/reel/ExAmPlE0002/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T10:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_web",
    "complete": false,
    "warnings": [
      "comments_first_page_only"
    ]
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 2,
    "responseBytes": 812345,
    "durationMs": 1200
  }
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, handles, ids, cursors or URLs.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_web",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": [
      "string"
    ]
  },
  "xdt_shortcode_media": {
    "id": "string",
    "shortcode": "string",
    "__typename": "XDTGraphImage",
    "is_video": true,
    "owner": {
      "id": "string",
      "username": "string"
    },
    "taken_at_timestamp": 0
  }
}