Instagram Similar profiles API
List the accounts Instagram recommends as similar to a public profile, with each account's handle, display name, verified flag and avatar.
$27.00/1k req, pay per request, no subscription.
{"username": "nasaearth","userId": "3384019221","displayName": "NASA Earth","verified": true,"private": false,"avatarUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/nasaearth_profile.jpg?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1"}
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Get Instagram similar profiles in one request
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{
"found": true,
"data": {
"profiles": [
{
"username": "nasaearth",
"userId": "3384019221",
"displayName": "NASA Earth",
"verified": true,
"private": false,
"avatarUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/nasaearth_profile.jpg?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1"
},
{
"username": "nasahubble",
"userId": "2298104457",
"displayName": "Hubble Space Telescope",
"verified": true,
"private": false,
"avatarUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/nasahubble_profile.jpg?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1"
},
{
"username": "esa",
"userId": "1873402219",
"displayName": "European Space Agency",
"verified": true,
"private": false,
"avatarUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/esa_profile.jpg?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1"
}
]
}
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Last verified 2026-10-24 · uptime and latency measured over 30d
Request body
JSON, posted to this endpoint.
- handlestring
nasa
Instagram username without the leading @.
Response
JSON, one example value per field.
Accounts Instagram recommends as similar to the requested profile. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- avatarUrlstring
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/nasaearth_profile.jpg?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1
Profile picture URL, as Instagram's CDN serves it.
- displayNamestring
NASA Earth
Account display name.
- privateboolean
false
Whether the account is private. Null when the source does not report it.
- userIdstring
3384019221
Instagram's numeric account id, as a string.
- usernamestring
nasaearth
Instagram username without the leading @. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- verifiedboolean
true
Whether the account carries Instagram's verified badge.
- 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.
FAQ
About the Instagram Similar profiles API
The AnyAPI Instagram Similar profiles API returns Instagram similar profiles data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/instagram.similar_profiles. List the accounts Instagram recommends as similar to a public profile, with each account's handle, display name, verified flag and avatar. AnyAPI returns one normalized schema whichever source serves it. It costs from $27 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 99.9% of Instagram similar profiles calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 4.6 seconds across 5,462 measured calls.
