Instagram Basic profile API
Fetch an Instagram account's core public profile fields (followers, posts, bio, verification) by user id.
$1.00/1k req, pay per request, no subscription.
{"userId": "7834521690","handle": "juno.bakes","displayName": "Juno Alvarez","followers": 128400,"following": 612,"bio": "Home baker in Portland. Browned butter everything.\nRecipes every Tuesday.","verified": false,"private": false,... 5 more fields}
Pricing and providers
Instagram Basic profile API pricing: one API, 5 interchangeable providers
The cheapest provider serves first. If it fails, the next one takes over in the same call.
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Get Instagram basic profile in one request
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{
"found": true,
"data": {
"userId": "7834521690",
"handle": "juno.bakes",
"displayName": "Juno Alvarez",
"followers": 128400,
"following": 612,
"bio": "Home baker in Portland. Browned butter everything.\nRecipes every Tuesday.",
"verified": false,
"private": false,
"externalUrl": "https://junobakes.com/recipes",
"avatarUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/juno_alvarez_avatar.jpg"
}
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Last verified 2026-11-01 · uptime and latency measured over 30d
Request body
JSON, posted to this endpoint.
- userIdstring
7834521690
Instagram numeric user id (the account's internal all-digits id, e.g. 314216), NOT the @handle or profile URL. Passing a handle here returns no profile.
- requireFieldsarray
Optional; omit it and routing is unchanged, with the cheapest source serving. Name the output fields this request must be able to return, for example `posts`, and it is served only by a source that returns every one of them. Fields you do not name are still returned whenever the serving source has them. This can raise your price: when the cheapest source cannot return a named field, a dearer source serves, and you are quoted and charged its price. A named field can still be absent on a profile that genuinely lacks it. Naming a combination that no single source returns together is refused as invalid input, with no charge.
Response
JSON, one example value per field.
- avatarUrlstring
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/juno_alvarez_avatar.jpg
Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- biostring
Home baker in Portland. Browned butter everything. Recipes every Tuesday.
- displayNamestring
Juno Alvarez
Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- externalUrlstring
https://junobakes.com/recipes
- followersinteger
128400
- followinginteger
612
- handlestring
juno.bakes
Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- isBusinessbooleancan require
Whether Instagram flags the account as a business account. Null when this source does not report it.
- postsintegercan require
Total number of posts on the account. Null when this source does not report it.
- privateboolean
false
- userIdstring
7834521690
Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- verifiedboolean
false
Every link the account publishes in its bio, in the order Instagram returns them. Null when this source does not report them.
- titlestringcan require
Display label for the link, empty when the account set none.
- urlstringcan require
Destination URL, exactly as the account published it.
- foundboolean
true
- reason"not_found"
Present only when `found` is false, and says why there is no result. `not_found`: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. A `found: false` answer is a successful call, not an error, and `costUsd` is what it actually cost.
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FAQ
About the Instagram Basic profile API
The AnyAPI Instagram Basic profile API returns Instagram basic profile data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/instagram.basic_profile. Fetch an Instagram account's core public profile fields (followers, posts, bio, verification) by user id. AnyAPI routes each request across 5 sources and falls back automatically when one fails. It costs from $1 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Instagram basic profile calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 1.2 seconds across 20,339 measured calls.
