Instagram

The API uses GraphQL targets which return data in JSON.

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While the targets in this page use GraphQL under the hood, they are interfaced with via REST.

The following Instagram targets are available:

Target	Sync	Async	Batch	Pagination
`instagram_graphql_user_posts`	✅	✅		✅
`instagram_graphql_profile`	✅	✅	✅
`instagram_graphql_post`	✅	✅

Instagram GraphQL User Posts

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Returns information about a specific Instagram user.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
`target`	`string`	✅	target	`instagram_graphql_user_posts`
`query`	`string`	`query`	Instagram user profile name	`nba`
`cursor`	`string`		next page string (look for `end_cursor` value in response)	`3547611165414990351\_1067259270`

Pagination

When making an initial request:

{
    "target": "instagram_graphql_user_posts",
    "query": "nba"
}

The response will contain an end_cursor:

{
    ...
    "page_info": {
        "end_cursor": "3547611165414990351_1067259270",
        "has_next_page": true,
        "has_previous_page": false,
        "start_cursor": null
    },
    ...
}

This cursor can be user to fetch the next page of results:

{
    "target": "instagram_graphql_user_posts",
    "query": "nba",
    "cursor": "3547611165414990351_1067259270"
}

Instagram GraphQL profile

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Returns information about a specific Instagram user.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
`target`	`string`	✅	target	`instagram_graphql_profile`
`query`	`string`	✅	Instagram profile name	nba

Return value JSON:

Basic information (name, description, follower count).
12 most recent posts.

Instagram GraphQL post

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Returns information from a specific Instagram post.

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This target does not support batch integration.

Parameter	Type		Required	Description	Example
`target`	`string`		✅	target	`instagram_graphql_post`
`url`	`string`		✅	Instagram post URL	<https://www.instagram.com/p/ChYHpdAvnob>

Create callback for Instagram post

  POST https://scraper-api.smartproxy.com/v2/task

Payload type: JSON

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Examples
`target`	`string`	✅	target	`instagram_graphql_post`
`url`	`url`	✅	Instagram post URL	https://www.instagram.com/p/ChYHpdAvnob

curl -u username:password -X POST --url https://scraper-api.smartproxy.com/v2/task -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"url\": \"https://www.instagram.com/p/ChYHpdAvnob/\", \"target\": \"instagram_graphql_post\",\"locale\": \"en-us\",\"geo\": \"United States\" }"

Retrieve parsed results via callback

GET https://scraper-api.smartproxy.com/v2/task/{Task_ID}/results?type=parsed

Retrieve raw HTML results via callback

GET https://scraper-api.smartproxy.com/v2/task/{Task_ID}/results?type=raw