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Instagram Post Info

Effortlessly Instagram scrape posts, track competitors, and discover market trends.
Instagram
September 28, 2023
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Our Instagram Scraping API offers a comprehensive solution for gathering post data from Instagram. With its state-of-the-art features, it provides businesses, researchers, and marketers with valuable insights directly from the source. Whether you're looking to monitor competitors, track hashtags, or discover trending content, our API delivers reliable, up-to-date data at your fingertips.

Benefits & Advantages

  1. Data Analysis: Collecting data for market research, sentiment analysis, and trend spotting.
  2. Competitor Monitoring: Track competitors' posts, engagement rates, and overall presence.
  3. Content Inspiration: Discover popular content trends to inspire your own content creation.
  4. Influencer Identification: Spot rising influencers in your niche or industry.
  5. Brand Monitoring: Monitor your brand's mentions and hashtags for reputation management.
  6. Engagement Metrics: Access metrics like post likes, comments, and shares for analysis.
  7. Historical Data: Retrieve past posts for retrospective analysis.
  8. Content Archival: Store and archive content for future reference or backup.
  9. Event Tracking: Monitor specific events, promotions, or campaigns.
  10. Automation: Automate content gathering for efficient and consistent data collection.

Use-Cases

  1. Market Research Firms: Understand market trends and gauge public sentiment on products.
  2. Brands: Track and analyze competitor strategies or monitor their own online reputation.
  3. Digital Marketing Agencies: Offer enhanced analytics to clients by fetching real-time data.
  4. Journalists & Researchers: Retrieve historical content or trending topics for articles.
  5. E-commerce: Identify trending products or influencer promotions.
  6. Event Organizers: Track the buzz around an event by monitoring related hashtags and posts.
Content:

Header

x-api-key required

string

Parameter defines the Piloterr private key to use.

Parameters

query

string

Instagram post or reel url : `https://www.instagram.com/p/CshTQQlMGMl` or `CshTQQlMGMl`

GET
POST
/api/v2/instagram/post/info
Example Request
curl --location --request GET 'https://piloterr.com/api/v2/instagram/post/info?query=https://www.instagram.com/p/CshTQQlMGMl' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'x-api-key: <token>' \
Response
{ "id": "3107849898061488933", "shortcode": "CshTQQlMGMl", "created_time": "2023-05-21T21:30:00", "timestamp": 1684704600, "product_type": null, "text": "🍿", "text_lang": "en", "text_tags": [], "text_tagged_users": [], "attached_media_display_url": "https://scontent-cdg4-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/347861207_1707687973014484_3649610220149539376_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg4-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=G8iy_d-ikaUAX-wwvTR&edm=AP_V10EBAAAA&ccb=7-5&ig_cache_key=MzEwNzg0OTg5MzQzOTQ1OTQyNQ%3D%3D.2-ccb7-5&oh=00_AfDArVZ7v_YWl8SuGMmtefnvg9wXYv-vmpDtEFRmacAoNA&oe=64749AA1&_nc_sid=8721cf", "attached_media_tagged_users": [], "attached_carousel_media_urls": [ "https://scontent-cdg4-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/347861207_1707687973014484_3649610220149539376_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg4-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=G8iy_d-ikaUAX-wwvTR&edm=AP_V10EBAAAA&ccb=7-5&ig_cache_key=MzEwNzg0OTg5MzQzOTQ1OTQyNQ%3D%3D.2-ccb7-5&oh=00_AfDArVZ7v_YWl8SuGMmtefnvg9wXYv-vmpDtEFRmacAoNA&oe=64749AA1&_nc_sid=8721cf", "https://scontent-cdg4-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/347832052_2243608469163355_4814444542687724291_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg4-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_ohc=wskXqCUKkPMAX_sjZlo&edm=AP_V10EBAAAA&ccb=7-5&ig_cache_key=MzEwNzg0OTg5MzQyMjU3Mzc5Ng%3D%3D.2-ccb7-5&oh=00_AfCVO6uoxjJeyGN22wHm3qKXO_mLlZi05pOyUBEy85uSUw&oe=64735A21&_nc_sid=8721cf" ], "is_video": false, "is_comments_disabled": false, "like_count": 2604768, "comments_count": 11566, "paid_partnership": false, "video_views_count": null, "video_plays_count": null, "related_posts": null, "sponsors": [], "owner_id": "4213518589", "location_id": "12345912", "location_name": "Auxerre", "location_slug": "auxerre"
}
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