Instagram Reels Scraper — No Login Required

Turn public Instagram Reels into structured, ready-to-use business data—without Instagram accounts, cookies, or manual collection.

Collect captions, engagement metrics, creator details, media links, recent comments, and AI transcripts from up to 1,000 public profiles in one run.

No login. No Instagram credentials. No manual copy-pasting.

Why teams use this Actor

• Research competitors at scale — compare publishing activity, formats, captions, topics, and engagement across brands.
• Discover creators and partnerships — identify owners, collaborators, tagged accounts, music, and paid-partnership indicators.
• Monitor content trends — collect hashtags, mentions, audio metadata, publishing dates, views, plays, likes, and comments.
• Build searchable content libraries — store videos or audio and add timestamped, speaker-labelled transcripts.
• Automate recurring analysis — use newerThan to collect only recently published Reels.

What you receive

Every Reel result can include:

• caption, hashtags, mentions, shortcode, and canonical Reel URL
• publication date, duration, dimensions, cover image, and media URLs
• likes, comments, plays, Instagram plays, and views when available
• creator name, username, verification status, and profile image
• collaborators, tagged users, location, music, and original-audio details
• paid-partnership and pinned-content indicators
• optional recent comments, stored media, and AI transcription
• optional raw source data for advanced analysis

Unavailable Instagram metrics remain null, never a misleading zero.

Start in minutes

Add usernames, @usernames, or complete profile URLs. You can mix all three:

{
  "accounts": [
    "instagram",
    "@natgeo",
    "https://www.instagram.com/nike/"
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 20
}

For recurring monitoring, collect only Reels published after a chosen date:

{
  "accounts": ["natgeo", "nike"],
  "resultsLimit": 0,
  "newerThan": "2026-01-01"
}

Set resultsLimit per profile, or use 0 to continue until Instagram exposes no more results or the date cutoff is reached.

Choose the data you need

Recent comments

Add the recent comments visible on the public Reel page. This is useful for sentiment samples, audience-language research, and identifying recurring questions. Instagram does not expose the complete comment history while logged out, so this represents a recent preview rather than every comment.

Video and audio storage

Store Reel videos or audio-only tracks with your run. Choose storage when you need durable media for review, archiving, transcription, or downstream processing. Direct Instagram media links are signed and expire.

High-quality AI transcription

Create clean transcripts with:

• automatic language detection
• punctuation and readable text formatting
• speaker-labelled, timestamped segments
• word-level timestamps in milliseconds and readable HH:MM:SS.mmm format

Transcription is available to paid Apify users and is billed only after a completed transcript is saved. Missing audio, provider errors, timeouts, and failed transcription jobs are not billed.

Simple, predictable pricing

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay for delivered results and the enrichments you explicitly enable—not for failed requests, retries, or internal network fallback.

Delivered item	Bronze price
Saved Reel	$0.0013
Recent-comments result	$0.0012
Stored video, per started MiB	$0.007
Stored audio, per started MiB	$0.004
Transcript, per started 15 seconds	$0.003

Examples at Bronze pricing:

• 100 core Reels: approximately $0.13
• 1,000 core Reels: approximately $1.30
• one 60-second transcript: approximately $0.012

A small $0.00005 Actor-start event applies once per run. Prices decrease automatically for higher Apify tiers. Apify shows the exact applicable event prices before you start a run.

Designed for dependable recurring collection

The Actor automatically handles temporary access problems and continues processing healthy profiles when an individual account is unavailable. A single failed profile does not discard successful results from the rest of your list.

You do not need to tune performance settings. Recovery and network fallback are included in the result price.

Export and use the data anywhere

Results are available in the Apify dataset and through the API, ready for:

• spreadsheets and business-intelligence dashboards
• competitor and campaign reporting
• creator databases and outreach workflows
• data warehouses and internal APIs
• AI classification, summarization, and semantic search
• scheduled monitoring and downstream automations

Core Reels, comments, stored media, and transcripts are returned as clear, separate records, making them easy to filter and connect in downstream workflows.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need an Instagram account?

No. The Actor works with public Instagram profiles and does not accept or require Instagram credentials.

Can I scrape a profile URL instead of a username?

Yes. You can use a username, an @username, or a full Instagram profile URL in the same input list.

Can I collect only new Reels?

Yes. Set newerThan to a date or timestamp to skip older content. This is ideal for scheduled monitoring.

Does it return every comment?

No. It returns the recent comments available on the public Reel page. Instagram does not expose the complete comment history while logged out.

Are videos and transcripts included automatically?

They are optional so you stay in control of cost. Enable video storage, audio storage, recent comments, or transcription only when you need them.

What happens when Instagram does not expose a metric?

The field is returned as null. Missing values are never presented as fake zeroes.

Important limitations

• Public Instagram profiles only
• No access to private profiles or login-protected content
• Historical depth varies by profile and Instagram availability
• Recent comments are a preview, not the complete comment history
• Shares and saves may be unavailable while logged out
• Direct Instagram media URLs expire unless storage is enabled
• Instagram's public interfaces can change, which may temporarily affect individual profiles or fields

Responsible use

This Actor accesses publicly available profile data only and does not bypass authentication. You are responsible for using the results in accordance with applicable laws, privacy requirements, and the terms that apply to your use case.