🔥 Instagram Reel Scraper

Scrape public Instagram reels from profiles or direct reel URLs. Get captions, engagement metrics, video/audio URLs, tagged users, music info, and optional transcripts in clean JSON.

✨ Key Features

• 🎥 Extract reels from usernames, profile URLs/IDs, or reel URLs
• ❤️ Likes, comments, views, plays, and optional share counts
• 📝 Caption, hashtags, mentions, and tagged users
• 🎶 Music / original audio metadata
• ✍️ Optional audio transcript (paid upstream add-on)
• ⬇️ Optional downloaded video copy (paid upstream add-on)
• 📅 Date filter, skip pinned, and skip trial reels
• 📋 Structured JSON output, streamed while the run is in progress

💪 Why Choose This Actor?

• Focused: Built specifically for Instagram reel extraction
• Flexible: Profiles and reel URLs in the same run
• Efficient: Results are pushed continuously while the job runs
• Structured: Renamed, integration-friendly field names
• Reliable: Stable public-data extraction

🎯 Perfect For

• 📊 Influencer and short-form content research
• 🔥 Campaign and competitor reel tracking
• 🏢 UGC and brand-mention monitoring
• 🤖 LLM / RAG pipelines that need captions + transcripts

📝 Input Requirements

• targets (required): Usernames, profile URLs/IDs, and/or reel URLs
• maxReelsPerProfile (optional): Max reels per profile. Default: 25. Ignored for direct reel URLs
• postedAfter (optional): Only reels newer than a date or relative value
• skipPinned (optional): Skip pinned reels. Default: false
• skipTrial (optional): Skip trial reels. Default: false
• includeShareCount (optional): Include share counts. Default: false (paid add-on)
• includeTranscript (optional): Include audio transcript. Default: false (paid add-on)
• includeVideoDownload (optional): Download and store video. Default: false (paid add-on)

Input Example

{
  "targets": [
    "natgeo",
    "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX7lzTOJ1p6/"
  ],
  "maxReelsPerProfile": 10,
  "postedAfter": "1 month",
  "skipPinned": false,
  "skipTrial": false
}

Output Example

{
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/natgeo",
  "reelId": "3889868956217334394",
  "mediaType": "Video",
  "code": "DX7lzTOJ1p6",
  "text": "this is your sign to stop neglecting your scalp 🤭 #ad",
  "tags": ["ad", "sephorasquad", "sephora"],
  "mentionedUsers": ["dysonusa", "sephora"],
  "reelUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DX7lzTOJ1p6/",
  "commentCount": 24,
  "likeCount": 286,
  "playCount": 10977,
  "videoUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/...",
  "durationSecs": 51.151,
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-04T21:05:19.000Z",
  "authorUsername": "lyssamariexo",
  "authorName": "alyssa marie",
  "contentKind": "clips",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-21T03:00:00.000Z"
}

🚀 How to Use

1. Add usernames, profile URLs, or reel URLs to targets
2. Optionally set date filters and add-ons
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML

📌 Notes

• Only public Instagram reels can be scraped
• Direct reel URLs ignore maxReelsPerProfile and postedAfter
• Transcript / download / share-count features are paid upstream add-ons
• Free users of this actor have run and result-size limits; upgrade for unlimited usage