API referenceInstagram
Instagram search profiles
Creator discovery from keywords in public bios and captions.
Instagram publishes a post's view count only for video. Photo and carousel posts return null rather than zero, because zero would be a claim we cannot support.
Share and save counts are visible only to the account that owns a post. No public surface carries them, so we never populate them.
The example response below is real output from this endpoint, not an illustration. Long lists and long strings are shortened to keep the page readable, and each place that happens is marked. This example took 27.9s.
Authorization
ApiKeyAuth X-API-Key<token>
Your API key. Sent on every request.
In: header
Request Body
application/json
TypeScript Definitions
Use the request body type in TypeScript.
Response Body
application/json
application/json
application/json
application/json
curl -X POST "https://example.com/v1/scrapers/instagram-search-profiles-v4" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "query": "travel blogger" }'{ "request_id": "req_8f2c1d94e7b0", "success": true, "status": { "code": "OK", "message": "Scrape completed.", "retryable": false }, "data": { "cursor": "2", "has_more": true, "profiles": [ { "bio_links": [ { "link_type": "external", "lynx_url": "https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.youtube.com%2Fc%2FTravelWithPinkpebble&e=AUCH8s1JhJAXor59RO3ooLO40egXs88zMlnqiRxJQhIbm6fB0qCgjyfX3p3k8AYEH7zz9wC0to3DkaRPkMMmC4CcRfzO9jrd", "title": "Long Form Travel Videos", "url": "https://m.youtube.com/c/TravelWithPinkpebble" }, { "link_type": "external", "lynx_url": "https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftopmate.io%2Fpinkpebble%2F1272617&e=AUDLFxv1rcK5bSas7urgXQjtx0IzvEsPu2PIJ7qKNUJFcvPIax-MHMZ43TrBUlcbXKpsllL3VJBskholf0ClFp5oRkkmPzkw", "title": "Ultimate Norway Guide", "url": "https://topmate.io/pinkpebble/1272617" }, "… 3 more items in the full response" ], "biography": "Quit 9 To 5 Job To Travel The World 🌍 \nTravel ✈️ Fitness💪Food 🥑\nTravelled to 26+ countries\nOther 900 hobbies on @pinkpebblehome", "category_name": "Blogger", "enriched": true, "external_url": "https://m.youtube.com/c/TravelWithPinkpebble", "follower_count": 257994, "following_count": 1407, "full_name": "Sandhya Majji | Travel Blogger", "google_description": "258K Followers, 1,451 Following, 1,859 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sandhya Majji | Travel Blogger (@pinkpebble)", "google_title": "Sandhya Majji | Travel Blogger (@pinkpebble) - Instagram", "id": "6725474985", "is_business_account": false, "is_private": false, "is_professional_account": true, "is_verified": true, "matched_from": "profile", "media_count": 1859, "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent-sea5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-19/660290498_18353116039226986_5801721310701363492_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e0_s150x150_tt6&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InByb2ZpbGVfcGljLmRqYW5nby4xMDgwLmMyIn0&_nc_ht=scontent-sea5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=110&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gEgMqtfgbP9hDY5alY01xe3fkN0I75vnLvBtM22WkG8zWJE0fy2KEU… (+180 chars)", "url": "https://www.instagram.com/pinkpebble/", "username": "pinkpebble" }, { "bio_links": [ { "link_type": "external", "lynx_url": "https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ffoodology.ca%2F&e=AUDo5ov-brSxbf6ZutiIA5738Lcy3h77YTZrSvWyCjiGEImTTHzBTnYA_uORIp8m2RobDhVJUAn1V1VuEydzMzplETQkDqB9", "title": "", "url": "https://foodology.ca/" } ], "biography": "✏️ Canadian Food and travel Blogger since 2010. Mommy to the tiny humans 👧🏻👶🏻.\n📍: Vancouver, BC 📧 diana@foodology.ca", "category_name": null, "enriched": true, "external_url": "https://foodology.ca/", "follower_count": 60091, "following_count": 6846, "full_name": "Diana Chan", "google_description": "60K Followers, 7,077 Following, 4,945 Posts - Diana Chan (@foodologyca) on Instagram: \" ️ Canadian Food and travel Blogger since 2010. Mommy to the tiny humans 👧🏻👶🏻. 📍: Vancouver, BC 📧 diana@foodology.ca\"", "google_title": "Diana Chan (@foodologyca) • Instagram photos and videos", "id": "536555753", "is_business_account": false, "is_private": false, "is_professional_account": true, "is_verified": true, "matched_from": "profile", "media_count": 4950, "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/351137900_216146374073487_7719216356072774929_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e0_s150x150_tt6&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InByb2ZpbGVfcGljLmRqYW5nby4xMDgwLmMyIn0&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=103&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFGcYX33m7nAa40wl2r7m9-XV3NfpiHk5R57VsVg9ldim8zgXEWgmn86N… (+177 chars)", "url": "https://www.instagram.com/foodologyca/", "username": "foodologyca" }, "… 8 more items in the full response" ], "query": "travel blogger", "success": true }, "error": null, "meta": { "client_id": "client_abc123", "scraper": "instagram-search-profiles-v4", "billable": true, "duration_ms": 27191 }}