Instagram API

Instagram Reels search API

Search Instagram Reels by keyword and get matching reels (caption, likes, comments, creator, and duration). Instagram does not return view or play counts in reels search results. Results are relevance-ranked, not chronological. Paging tops out around 110 reels per query (11 pages of 10).

POST/v1/run/instagram.reels_search
Uptime
93.18%
30d · 1,746 calls
Requests
1,750
30d · weekly, last 12 wks
Response
4.6s
median · 30d

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{
  "data": {
    "reels": [
      {
        "caption": "A short example description of this item.",
        "comments": 12500,
        "createdUtc": 12.5,
        "durationSeconds": 12.5,
        "likes": 12500,
        "paidPartnership": true,
        "shortcode": "a1b2c3d4",
        "thumbnail": "https://example.com/image.jpg",
        "url": "https://example.com/page",
        "username": "alex_rivera",
        "verified": true
      }
    ]
  },
  "found": true
}
Response interface
interface InstagramReelsSearchResponse {
  data: {
    reels: {
      caption: string;
      comments: number;
      createdUtc: number;
      durationSeconds: number;
      likes: number;
      paidPartnership: boolean;
      shortcode: string;
      thumbnail: string;
      url: string;
      username: string;
      verified: boolean;
    }[];
  } | null;
  found: boolean;
}

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Request, response, and price

Last verified 2026-09-14 · uptime and latency measured over 30d
POST /v1/run/instagram.reels_search
curl -X POST https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reels_search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"travel"}'
FieldTypeExample value
Request body
querystring"travel"Search keyword (e.g. "crossfit").
datePostedenumRecency hint, not a hard filter. Reel discovery runs on top of Google search, so this window narrows Google's index by when it discovered or last crawled the reel, which is not the same as when the reel was published to Instagram. Returned reels can have a createdUtc outside the requested window, and the narrowest window, last-week, often returns older reels or no results. Check createdUtc yourself if you need exact publication-time precision.
pageinteger1-based results page.
Response
dataobjectWrapper holding the reels array, or null when nothing was found.
data.reelsobject[]Reels matching the search. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.reels[].captionstringReel caption text. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.reels[].commentsintegerNumber of comments on the reel.
data.reels[].createdUtcnumberUTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds.
data.reels[].durationSecondsnumberReel duration in seconds.
data.reels[].likesintegerNumber of likes on the reel.
data.reels[].paidPartnershipbooleanTrue when the reel is a paid partnership.
data.reels[].shortcodestringInstagram media shortcode. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.reels[].thumbnailstringURL of the reel thumbnail image. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.reels[].urlstringCanonical URL of the reel. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.reels[].usernamestringUsername of the account that posted the reel. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.reels[].verifiedbooleanTrue when the posting account is verified.
foundbooleanTrue when matching reels were found; false when the search returned nothing.
Price
Price per requestUSD$0.0012
Price /1k reqUSD$1.20

FAQ

About the Instagram Reels search API

The AnyAPI Instagram Reels search API returns Instagram reels search data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/instagram.reels_search. Search Instagram Reels by keyword and get matching reels (caption, likes, comments, creator, and duration). Instagram does not return view or play counts in reels search results. Results are relevance-ranked, not chronological. Paging tops out around 110 reels per query (11 pages of 10). AnyAPI routes each request across 2 sources and falls back automatically when one fails. It costs from $1.20 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 93.2% of Instagram reels search calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 4.6 seconds across 1,746 measured calls.

It costs from $1.20 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet, each call draws it down, and a failed request costs $0.

Search Instagram Reels by keyword and get matching reels (caption, likes, comments, creator, and duration). Instagram does not return view or play counts in reels search results. Results are relevance-ranked, not chronological. Paging tops out around 110 reels per query (11 pages of 10). The response is normalized JSON with the same envelope every AnyAPI endpoint returns, so parsing a second endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

Over the last 30 days, 93.2% of Instagram reels search calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 4.6 seconds across 1,746 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.
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