Instagram API endpoint

Retrieve Instagram Reels for a user

Returns a feed of Instagram Reels for the specified user ID. Supports pagination via `max_id`.

GETapiKey8 credits/requestinstagram.reelsResponseDoc/instagram/reels/{id}

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
id	path	string	Yes	Instagram user ID
max_id	query	string	No	Pagination cursor for fetching the next page of Reels
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: id

Failure responses

Status	Description	Schema
400	Missing or invalid parameters	#/definitions/app.Response
404	No Reels 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": {
    "items": [
      {
        "media": {
          "id": "3679713463091712273_1067259270",
          "code": "DMQ9-YSzdER",
          "media_type": 2,
          "caption": {
            "text": "Find out which WNBA fan you are based on your searches 🏀🔎 Hit the link in bio for the full quiz.",
            "user": {
              "id": "1067259270",
              "username": "google",
              "full_name": "Google"
            }
          },
          "image_versions2": {
            "candidates": [
              {
                "url": "https://scontent-mia5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.71878-15/520326096_601943249304059_3355842298425776816_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_cat=1...",
                "width": 640,
                "height": 1136
              }
            ]
          },
          "play_count": 5734199
        }
      }
    ],
    "paging_info": {
      "max_id": "QVFCNFFnOGo1Q1J4T2lhMi1HSzRZQ1hqZDgyUjdyNUZTbnFxajZYXzhpUFFkOERZRjlIZHMtMVBTemYyX2tzWHhOa1VWRWRpaTBGM2prMDlqTnp5VlE2ag==",
      "more_available": true
    }
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/instagram.reelsResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	Example	Description
code	integer	No	200
data	instagram.ReelResponse	No
data.items	array	No
data.items[].media	instagram.Media	No
data.items[].media.caption	unknown	No		pointer so it can be nil
data.items[].media.code	string	No
data.items[].media.comment_count	integer	No
data.items[].media.display_uri	string	No
data.items[].media.id	string	No
data.items[].media.image_versions2	instagram.ImageVersions	No
data.items[].media.image_versions2.candidates	array	No
data.items[].media.image_versions2.candidates[].height	integer	No
data.items[].media.image_versions2.candidates[].url	string	No
data.items[].media.image_versions2.candidates[].width	integer	No
data.items[].media.like_count	integer	No
data.items[].media.media_type	integer	No		1=Image 2=Video 8=Album
data.items[].media.play_count	integer	No
data.items[].media.taken_at	integer	No
data.paging_info	instagram.PagingInfo	No
data.paging_info.max_id	string	No
data.paging_info.more_available	boolean	No
msg	string	No	OK

Example request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/instagram/reels/user-1" -H "x-api-key: <api-key>"

TypeScript fetch

const url = new URL("https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/instagram/reels/user-1");
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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