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npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill instagram-api
An Instagram API alternative on fetcher.sh — pay-per-call in USDC via x402, or prepaid credits with a Bearer key, no login and no session cookies. Use when the user wants to resolve an Instagram profile by @handle, search users by keyword, pull a profile's posts, reels, stories, tagged posts, followers, or followings, look up a single post by its shortcode, read a post's comments, fetch posts under a hashtag or reel-only hashtag feed, pull posts from a location, or pull posts using a specific audio/music track. Also covers Instagram follower export, hashtag and location monitoring, influencer discovery, competitor content tracking, and Instagram data pipelines without an official Graph API business verification or a headless browser.
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill instagram-api
Instagram data on demand: profile lookup by @handle, posts, reels, stories, tagged posts, followers and followings, hashtag and location feeds, audio/music feeds, and post comments — one plain HTTP GET per call, paid as you go. No login, no session cookies, no headless browser, no Graph API business verification.
Base URL: https://instagram.fetcher.sh
| Base URL | https://instagram.fetcher.sh |
| Auth | Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... or x402 (USDC) |
| Price | $0.004/call (flat) |
| Endpoints | 16, all GET |
| MCP | https://instagram.fetcher.sh/mcp |
| Machine-readable | /openapi.json · /llms.txt · /skill.md |
| I want to... | Call |
|---|---|
| Look up a profile by @handle | GET /api/user/handle/{handle} |
| Search accounts by name | GET /api/user/search |
| Get a user's posts, reels, or stories | GET /api/user/{id}/posts / /reels / /stories |
| Get a user's followers or followings | GET /api/user/{id}/followers / /followings |
| Look up a post by its share-URL shortcode | GET /api/post/code/{code} |
| Get a post's comments | GET /api/post/{id}/comments |
| Find posts under a hashtag | GET /api/hashtag/{name}/posts |
| Find posts tagged at a location | GET /api/location/{id}/posts |
Full param details for every row: references/endpoints.md.
Two ways to pay, same data — full mechanics in the fetcher
skill:
Every response is { "status": number, "message": string, "data": ... }; the
HTTP status mirrors status.
| Endpoint | What it returns |
|---|---|
/api/user/handle/{handle} | Full profile by @handle — follower counts, bio, numeric ID |
/api/user/search | Profiles matching a keyword query |
/api/userid/{handle} | Just the numeric user ID for a @handle |
/api/user/{id} | Profile by numeric ID |
/api/user/{id}/posts | A user's posts |
/api/user/{id}/posts/tagged | Posts the user is tagged in |
/api/user/{id}/reels | A user's reels |
/api/user/{id}/stories | A user's active stories |
/api/user/{id}/followers | A user's followers |
/api/user/{id}/followings | Accounts a user follows |
/api/post/code/{code} | A single post by its shortcode (from the post URL) |
/api/post/{id}/comments | A post's comments |
/api/hashtag/{name}/posts | Posts under a hashtag |
/api/hashtag/{name}/reels | Reels under a hashtag |
/api/location/{id}/posts | Posts tagged at a location |
/api/audio/{id}/posts | Posts using a specific audio/music track |
{id} / {handle} / {name} / {code} are path parameters. Optional
cursor / page paginate; query (user search) is required where it
appears.
Resolve a profile by handle — the endpoint most callers want first:
Search for profiles by keyword, or resolve just the numeric ID for a handle:
A profile's posts, reels, stories, and tagged posts (by numeric ID from the handle lookup above):
Followers and followings:
A single post by shortcode (the part of the URL after /p/), and its
comments:
Posts and reels under a hashtag, posts from a location, and posts using an audio track:
Free: search_endpoints, describe_endpoint, check_balance. Paid:
fetch_data (any endpoint above), topup_credits, plus the named shortcut
instagram_user_handle. Drop the headers block to pay per call with x402
instead — see the fetcher skill for the full flow.
400 — missing/invalid parameter (message names it)401 — unknown or rotated key402 — payment required (x402 challenge) or topup_required (credits
exhausted)404 — not a priced pathreferences/endpoints.md (every
param) · references/scenarios.md (one curl
per endpoint) · references/faq.md ·
references/comparison.md (vs. the official
Instagram Graph API and a browser scraper)/instagram-profilefetcher skillcurl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/user/handle/nasa"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/user/handle/natgeo"curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "query=fitness influencer" -G \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/user/search"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/userid/nasa"curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/user/528817151/posts"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/user/528817151/reels"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/user/528817151/stories"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/user/528817151/posts/tagged"curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/user/528817151/followers"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/user/528817151/followings"curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/post/code/C0JD3tntcmy"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/post/3245142029192513970/comments"curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/hashtag/travel/posts"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/hashtag/travel/reels"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/location/213131048/posts"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/audio/271328201351336/posts"{
"mcpServers": {
"instagram": {
"url": "https://instagram.fetcher.sh/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer bby_live_..." }
}
}
}