Get an Instagram profile

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Retrieve a public Instagram profile by handle or numeric user ID, including identity, bio, links, follower and following counts, verification, business category and profile pictures. Use trim for a compact projection.

GET/v1/instagram/profilex-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

user_idstringquery

Numeric Instagram user id; exactly one of handle and user_id. Answered from the profile document alone, without a page load.

handlestringquery

Instagram username (1–30 letters, digits, periods, underscores; leading @ accepted); exactly one of handle and user_id.

max 31 chars

Exampleexample

trimenumquery

true returns the reference's trimmed profile projection under the mobile-API names: biography, bio_links, biography_with_entities, external_url, follower_count, fbid_v2, following_count, full_name, id, is_business, is_professional_account, category, is_private, is_verified, profile_pic_url, hd_profile_pic_url_info and username.

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; warnings name every omission or cap (private_account, items_truncated, comments_truncated, comments_first_page_only, comments_omitted, highlights_first_page_only, highlights_truncated).

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

The profile user object as Instagram's web client receives it.

data.user.pkstring

Always included.

data.user.usernamestring

Always included.

min 1 chars

data.user.idstring

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/profile?handle=example" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/instagram/profile?handle=example",
  {
    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/profile?handle=example",
  {
    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/profile",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "handle": "example"
    },
    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/profile?handle=example", 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/profile?handle=example"))
            .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": {
    "user": {
      "pk": "1234567890",
      "friendship_status": null,
      "gating": null,
      "fbid_v2": "17841400000000000",
      "is_memorialized": false,
      "is_private": false,
      "has_story_archive": null,
      "supervision_info": null,
      "is_regulated_c18": false,
      "regulated_news_in_locations": [],
      "bio_links": [
        {
          "image_url": "",
          "is_pinned": false,
          "link_id": "17900000000000000",
          "link_type": "external",
          "lynx_url": "https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F",
          "media_accent_color_hex": "",
          "media_type": "none",
          "title": "",
          "url": "https://example.com/",
          "creation_source": "NONE"
        }
      ],
      "linked_fb_info": null,
      "text_post_app_badge_label": "example",
      "show_text_post_app_badge": true,
      "username": "example",
      "live_broadcast_visibility": null,
      "live_broadcast_id": null,
      "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/example_s150x150.jpg",
      "hd_profile_pic_url_info": {
        "url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/example.jpg"
      },
      "is_unpublished": false,
      "latest_reel_media": null,
      "has_profile_pic": null,
      "profile_pic_genai_tool_info": [],
      "biography": "Example bio",
      "full_name": "Example Person",
      "is_verified": true,
      "show_account_transparency_details": true,
      "account_type": 2,
      "follower_count": 120000,
      "mutual_followers_count": null,
      "profile_context_links_with_user_ids": null,
      "address_street": null,
      "city_name": null,
      "is_business": false,
      "zip": null,
      "biography_with_entities": {
        "entities": []
      },
      "category": "Creator",
      "should_show_category": true,
      "account_badges": [],
      "ai_agent_type": null,
      "external_lynx_url": "https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F",
      "external_url": "https://example.com",
      "pronouns": [],
      "transparency_label": null,
      "transparency_product": null,
      "id": "1234567890",
      "has_chaining": null,
      "remove_message_entrypoint": null,
      "is_embeds_disabled": false,
      "is_professional_account": null,
      "following_count": 300,
      "media_count": null,
      "total_clips_count": 12,
      "latest_besties_reel_media": null,
      "reel_media_seen_timestamp": null
    }
  },
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "0b7f1e5c-3c2a-4a4e-9c9b-1f3d2c0a8e21",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/example/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T10:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_web",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "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": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}