Instagram API endpoint

Retrieve an Instagram user profile by username

Returns public profile details for a specified Instagram username.

GETapiKey8 credits/requestinstagram.profileResponseDoc/instagram/profile/{username}

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Enum	Example	Description
username	path	string	Yes			Instagram username
x-api-key	header	string	Yes			API key required

Authentication

Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.

Billing

Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.

Credit cost: 8 credits/request
Charged response: Successful 2xx responses

Plan	Price	Included credits	Daily cap	Rate limit	Overage
Free	$0/mo	2,000	500 daily credits	5/min	No overage
Starter	$9/mo	20,000	5,000 daily credits	15/min	$0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled
Growth	$29/mo	100,000	25,000 daily credits	45/min	$0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled
Pro	$79/mo	400,000	No daily cap	120/min	$0.30/1,000 overage credits
Business	$199/mo	1,200,000	No daily cap	300/min	$0.20/1,000 overage credits
Enterprise	$499/mo	5,000,000	No daily cap	1,000/min	$0.12/1,000 overage credits

Catalog quality warnings

missing example for required path param: username

Failure responses

Status	Description	Schema
400	Missing or invalid parameters	#/definitions/app.Response
404	Profile not found	#/definitions/app.Response
429	Rate limit exceeded	#/definitions/app.Response
500	Internal server error	#/definitions/app.Response

Example response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "1067259270",
    "fbid": "17841401778116675",
    "username": "google",
    "full_name": "Google",
    "biography": "Here to help.",
    "external_url": "https://linkin.bio/google"
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/instagram.profileResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	Example	Description
code	integer	No	200
data	instagram.UserProfile	No
data.bio_links	array	No	["https://linkin.bio/google"]
data.biography	string	No	Here to help.
data.category_name	string	No		not present in sample
data.external_url	string	No	https://linkin.bio/google
data.fbid	string	No	17841401778116675
data.followers_count	integer	No	15607284
data.following_count	integer	No	38
data.full_name	string	No	Google
data.id	string	No	1067259270
data.is_private	boolean	No	false
data.is_verified	boolean	No	true
data.location	instagram.BusinessAddress	No
data.location.city_name	string	No	Mountain View, California
data.location.latitude	number	No	37.4221
data.location.longitude	number	No	-122.08432
data.location.street_address	string	No	1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
data.location.zip_code	string	No	94043
data.posts	array	No
data.posts[].caption	string	No	You popped the big question. For all the questions that follow, try AI Mode in Search.
data.posts[].children	array	No		nested carousel media
data.posts[].comment_count	integer	No	43
data.posts[].height	integer	No	1000
data.posts[].id	string	No	3694065742636342530
data.posts[].is_video	boolean	No	false
data.posts[].like_count	integer	No	1880
data.posts[].media_url	string	No	https://scontent-lax3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/…n.jpg
data.posts[].product_type	string	No
data.posts[].shortcode	string	No	DND9TiOx10C
data.posts[].taken_at	string	No	2025-08-07T17:16:14Z
data.posts[].video_url	string	No
data.posts[].view_count	integer	No	25023	counters become pointers so they vanish when nil
data.posts[].width	integer	No	750
data.posts_count	integer	No	2867
data.profile_pic_url	string	No	https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/…n.jpg
data.related_profiles	array	No
data.related_profiles[].full_name	string	No	Gmail
data.related_profiles[].id	string	No	1234567890
data.related_profiles[].is_private	boolean	No	false
data.related_profiles[].is_verified	boolean	No	true
data.related_profiles[].profile_pic_url	string	No	https://…/profile.jpg
data.related_profiles[].username	string	No	gmail
data.username	string	No	google
msg	string	No	OK

Example request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/instagram/profile/%3Cusername%3E" -H "x-api-key: <api-key>"

TypeScript fetch

const url = new URL("https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/instagram/profile/%3Cusername%3E");
const headers = new Headers();
headers.set("x-api-key", "<api-key>");
const response = await fetch(url, {
  method: "GET",
  headers,
});
const payload = await response.json();

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