API referenceInstagram
Instagram user embed
The HTML embed snippet for a profile widget, plus the account summary and recent posts that ride along in the same response.
The HTML embed snippet for a profile widget, plus the account summary and recent posts that ride along in the same response.
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 4.2s.
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-user-embed-v4" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "handle": "nasa" }'{ "request_id": "req_8f2c1d94e7b0", "success": true, "status": { "code": "OK", "message": "Scrape completed.", "retryable": false }, "data": { "html": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang=\"en\" id=\"facebook\" class=\"no_js\">\n<head><meta charset=\"utf-8\" /><meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"default\" id=\"meta_referrer\" /><script nonce=\"eSa8IXmp\">function envFlush(e){function t(t){for(var n in e)t[n]=e[n]}window.requireLazy?window.requireLazy([\"Env\"],t):(window.Env=window.Env||{},t(windo… (+256084 chars)", "profile": { "follower_count": 104411499, "full_name": "NASA", "has_public_story": false, "is_verified": true, "media_count": 4888, "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent-atl3-3.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/29090066_159271188110124_1152068159029641216_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s100x100_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=bf7eb4&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InByb2ZpbGVfcGljLnd3dy4xMDgwLkMzIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=CAGgXUfT4p0Q7kNvwFRJ-Uc&_nc_oc=Adpltvv47Sr4ag0qdklaiQz9hPjZ3Llv7rMGqgD1Xxx-RkLxhmGgiM… (+141 chars)", "pronouns": [], "url": "https://www.instagram.com/nasa/", "user_id": "528817151", "username": "nasa" }, "recent_posts": [ { "__typename": "GraphImage", "accessibility_caption": null, "caption": "Next door to a black hole\n\nAt the center of the Milky Way lurks a black hole as massive as four million Suns. It’s called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A* for short.\n\nOur @NASAWebb telescope recently took a close look into our galaxy’s core—in particular, a star named IRS 3 that’s only half a light-year from Sgr A*. You can j… (+242 chars)", "clips_music_attribution_info": null, "coauthor_producers": [], "comment_count": 914, "comments": [], "comments_disabled": null, "dimensions": { "height": 785, "width": 1080 }, "display_url": "https://scontent-atl3-3.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/778928620_18639789742049152_2033997166523320168_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ig_cache_key=Mzk2ODgyNDgyNzE1MjA5NzY4Mg%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IkZFRUQueHBpZHMuNDA5Ni5zZHIucmVndWxhcl9waG90by5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc… (+258 chars)", "has_audio": null, "id": "3968824827152097682", "is_ad": null, "is_affiliate": false, "is_paid_partnership": false, "is_video": false, "like_and_view_counts_disabled": false, "like_count": null, "location": null, "owner": { "edge_followed_by": { "count": 104411499 }, "edge_owner_to_timeline_media": { "count": 4888 }, "edge_owner_to_timeline_video_media": { "count": 529 }, "followed_by_viewer": false, "has_public_story": false, "id": "528817151", "is_private": false, "is_unpublished": false, "is_verified": true, "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent-atl3-3.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/29090066_159271188110124_1152068159029641216_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s100x100_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=bf7eb4&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InByb2ZpbGVfcGljLnd3dy4xMDgwLkMzIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=CAGgXUfT4p0Q7kNvwFRJ-Uc&_nc_oc=Adpltvv47Sr4ag0qdklaiQz9hPjZ3Llv7rMGqgD1Xxx-RkLxhmGgiM… (+141 chars)", "username": "nasa" }, "product_type": null, "shortcode": "DcUGScOJuGS", "tagged_users": [], "taken_at": 1787340874, "thumbnail_src": null, "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DcUGScOJuGS/", "video_duration": null, "video_play_count": null, "video_url": null, "video_view_count": null }, { "__typename": "GraphImage", "accessibility_caption": null, "caption": "A \"desert\" made by water 🌊\n\nAt first glance, Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in northeastern Brazil looks like a desert, but it's definitely not: The park gets about 125 centimeters of rain per year. That's slightly more than Seattle and double what falls in London!\n\nWhat you see here are rows of sparkling white quar… (+492 chars)", "clips_music_attribution_info": null, "coauthor_producers": [], "comment_count": 11747, "comments": [], "comments_disabled": null, "dimensions": { "height": 1080, "width": 1080 }, "display_url": "https://scontent-atl3-3.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/778566246_18639462040049152_2459976484453072933_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ig_cache_key=Mzk2ODA1MDgyMjIzNjQyOTI0OA%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IkZFRUQueHBpZHMuMTQ0MC5zZHIucmVndWxhcl9waG90by5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc… (+258 chars)", "has_audio": null, "id": "3968050822236429248", "is_ad": null, "is_affiliate": false, "is_paid_partnership": false, "is_video": false, "like_and_view_counts_disabled": false, "like_count": null, "location": null, "owner": { "edge_followed_by": { "count": 104411499 }, "edge_owner_to_timeline_media": { "count": 4888 }, "edge_owner_to_timeline_video_media": { "count": 529 }, "followed_by_viewer": false, "has_public_story": false, "id": "528817151", "is_private": false, "is_unpublished": false, "is_verified": true, "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent-atl3-3.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/29090066_159271188110124_1152068159029641216_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s100x100_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=bf7eb4&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InByb2ZpbGVfcGljLnd3dy4xMDgwLkMzIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=CAGgXUfT4p0Q7kNvwFRJ-Uc&_nc_oc=Adpltvv47Sr4ag0qdklaiQz9hPjZ3Llv7rMGqgD1Xxx-RkLxhmGgiM… (+141 chars)", "username": "nasa" }, "product_type": null, "shortcode": "DcRWTL-GVvA", "tagged_users": [], "taken_at": 1787248550, "thumbnail_src": null, "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DcRWTL-GVvA/", "video_duration": null, "video_play_count": null, "video_url": null, "video_view_count": null }, "… 4 more items in the full response" ], "success": true }, "error": null, "meta": { "client_id": "client_abc123", "scraper": "instagram-user-embed-v4", "billable": true, "duration_ms": 2881 }}