Instagram, no login

An Instagram scraper that needs no login, cookies or account

Paste profile, hashtag, location, audio or post links and press Start. The Actor reads what Instagram shows to any logged-out visitor, so there is no account to risk, no session to keep alive and nothing personal to hand over. $1.90 per 1,000 results, with the latest comments, Instagram's AI summaries and view counts included.

• $1.90 per 1,000 results
• No login or cookies
• About 1,000 posts a minute
• Add-ons included

What "no login" means in practice

Many Instagram tools need an Instagram account connected to them. Connected accounts get rate-limited or locked, runs break, and it blurs the line between public data and data only a signed-in user should see. This Actor uses only what Instagram serves to logged-out visitors. That keeps it simple to run and keeps it on public data. It also puts some things out of reach, which are listed below.

What you can scrape

Set resultsType to choose the row type. posts gives one row per post or reel. details gives one row per source: a profile's bio, links, follower counts, category, account type, bio emails and phones and similar accounts, or a place's address and coordinates. comments gives the comments on each post, newest first. If comments are all you need, the Instagram comments export guide covers the single-purpose comments Actor.

What you can't get, and why

• Stories, tagged posts, follower and following lists, and profile or place search are only visible to logged-in accounts. The getStories and handles inputs are accepted for compatibility and skipped at no charge.
• Comment replies are login-only. You get top-level comments.
• Hashtags and keywords show logged-out visitors a curated set of top posts, typically about 60, and only for popular terms such as travel, nyc or toronto. A term Instagram keeps behind a login returns nothing and costs nothing. When you need more volume, expandRelatedKeywords also pulls posts from up to 100 related keywords.
• Locations return the top and most recent posts, typically about 70.
• Private accounts have no public posts; they're skipped with a note in the log.
• Play counts can be missing on some feed videos, where Instagram doesn't show plays to logged-out visitors. Reels-tab runs carry them.

Built to keep running

The Actor runs on Apify's managed infrastructure with automatic retries and is kept up to date when Instagram changes its public web pages. It handles about 1,000 fully detailed posts a minute. Queries that find nothing, login-only sources and rows your filters remove are not billed, so a bad input costs you nothing.

Filters that save money

• until: only posts on or after a date (2026-09-01) or within a period (7 days). On profiles, scraping stops as soon as it reaches older posts.
• minFollowers, maxFollowers, verifiedOnly: keep only posts from the accounts you care about.
• businessOnly, withContactOnly: for profile rows, keep business and creator accounts, or only those with an email or phone in their bio.
• skipPinnedPosts: leave out old posts pinned to the top of a profile.

Moving from another Instagram scraper

The Actor accepts apidojo-style input: startUrls, keywords, maxItems and until work the way you'd expect, single post URLs are allowed and there is no per-query minimum. The output uses familiar field names such as id, code, url, createdAt, caption, likeCount, commentCount and owner. Still, run a small sample and check it against your pipeline before you switch production jobs.

What about Instagram's official APIs?

Meta retired the Instagram Basic Display API in December 2024, and the Graph API that remains is built for professional accounts working with their own data. The Graph API alternative guide maps each Graph API call to an input here and says when to stay on Meta's API; the Instagram scraper comparison prices the other Actors on Apify by plan.

Run it from code

A profile, a hashtag and a keyword in one run, only posts since 1 September, 200 posts at most: $0.38 or less.

// Save as run.mjs, then: npm i apify-client && APIFY_TOKEN=... node run.mjs
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor('yugenox/instagram-scraper').call({
  startUrls: [
    "https://www.instagram.com/nasa/",
    "https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/travel/"
  ],
  keywords: [
    "toronto"
  ],
  until: "2026-09-01",
  maxItems: 200
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const item of items) console.log(item.url, item.likeCount, item.createdAt);

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient  # pip install apify-client

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])

run = client.actor("yugenox/instagram-scraper").call(run_input={
    "startUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/nasa/", "https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/travel/"],
    "keywords": ["toronto"],
    "until": "2026-09-01",
    "maxItems": 200,
})
if run is None:
    raise RuntimeError("Run did not finish")

for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item.get("url"), item.get("likeCount"), item.get("createdAt"))

# Small jobs: runs the Actor and returns the rows in one call (up to 5 minutes).
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/yugenox~instagram-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls":["https://www.instagram.com/nasa/","https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/travel/"],"keywords":["toronto"],"until":"2026-09-01","maxItems":200}'

Last updated 2026-10-06.