Instagram API

Instagram User reels API

List a profile’s reels by handle with cursor pagination: caption, plays, likes and comments.

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$0.80/1k req, pay per request, no subscription.

What the API returnedreels[0]
{
"id": "3641924023820356866",
"shortcode": "DKKtpqaxg0C",
"caption": "A flyby of the Pillars of Creation 🌌",
"views": 2410000,
"likes": 184000,
"comments": 1920,
"createdUtc": 1748371310,
"username": "nasa",
... 21 more fields
}
Uptime
99.87%
30d · 191,511 calls
Requests
193,221
30d · weekly, last 12 wks
Response
3.9s
median · 30d

Pricing and providers

Instagram User reels API pricing: one API, 7 interchangeable providers

The cheapest provider serves first. If it fails, the next one takes over in the same call.

You pay
$8.00
$0.80/1k req, only for what you use. No monthly plan.
Your first 125 requests are free with the $0.10 starting balance.

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Get Instagram user reels in one request

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 `soundTitle`, 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 reel that genuinely lacks it. Naming a combination that no single source returns together is refused as invalid input, with no charge.
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{
  "found": true,
  "data": {
    "nextCursor": "QVFEX2Z",
    "reels": [
      {
        "id": "3641924023820356866",
        "shortcode": "DKKtpqaxg0C",
        "caption": "A flyby of the Pillars of Creation 🌌",
        "views": 2410000,
        "likes": 184000,
        "comments": 1920,
        "createdUtc": 1748371310,
        "username": "nasa",
        "verified": true,
        "durationSeconds": 30.4
      }
    ]
  }
}

Full parameter and response reference - every field, type, and example for this endpoint.

Reference

One request, one response shape.

Every field you send and every field you get back, each with a real example.

Last verified 2026-11-05 · uptime and latency measured over 30d

Request body

JSON, posted to this endpoint.

  • cursorstring

    Pagination cursor (max_id) from a previous response's nextCursor.

  • handlestring

    nasa

    Instagram handle.

  • 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 `soundTitle`, 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 reel that genuinely lacks it. Naming a combination that no single source returns together is refused as invalid input, with no charge.

  • userIdstring

    Instagram user id (faster than handle when known).

You send. A small JSON body. The values shown are examples to replace with your own.

Response

JSON, one example value per field.

datadata
  • nextCursorstring

    QVFEX2Z

    Opaque cursor for the next page of reels, or null when this lane has no more. Pass it back as cursor to continue.

each reeldata.reels[]

Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • avatarUrlstring

    Profile picture URL of the posting account.

  • captionstring

    A flyby of the Pillars of Creation 🌌

    Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • commentsinteger

    1920

  • countsHiddenbooleancan require

    Whether the author has hidden the like and view counts. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • createdUtcnumber

    1748371310

    UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds.

  • displayNamestring

    Display name of the posting account.

  • durationSecondsnumber

    30.4

    Reel duration in seconds.

  • hashtagsstring[]

    Hashtags carried in the caption, each including its leading #. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • idstring

    3641924023820356866

    Instagram media id. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • isPinnedbooleancan require

    Whether the post is pinned to the top of a profile grid. On a collaboration post this can be true because a coauthor pinned it to their own profile. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • likesinteger

    184000

  • locationIdstringcan require

    Instagram location id the post is tagged at. Absent when the post has no location. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • locationLatnumbercan require

    Latitude of the tagged location, in decimal degrees. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • locationLngnumbercan require

    Longitude of the tagged location, in decimal degrees. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • locationNamestringcan require

    Name of the location the post is tagged at. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • mentionsstring[]

    Accounts @mentioned in the caption, each including its leading @. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • paidPartnershipbooleancan require

    Whether the post is tagged as a paid partnership. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • productTypestringcan require

    Instagram's own surface label for the post, such as feed, clips or carousel_container. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • resharesintegercan require

    Number of times the post has been reshared, when Instagram reports it. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • shortcodestring

    DKKtpqaxg0C

    Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • soundAuthorstringcan require

    Credited artist of a licensed track, or the username of the account whose original audio it is. Absent when the post has no sound. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • soundTitlestringcan require

    Name of the sound on a reel or a post with music. "Original audio" means the creator's own audio rather than a licensed track. Absent when the post has no sound. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • userIdstring

    Instagram user id of the posting account.

  • usernamestring

    nasa

    Username of the account that posted the reel. A reels tab includes collaborator reels, so this is not always the requested handle. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • verifiedboolean

    true

    True when the posting account is verified.

  • viewsinteger

    2410000

each coauthordata.reels[].coauthors[]

Accounts listed as coauthors of the post. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • displayNamestring

    Account display name.

  • userIdstring

    Instagram's numeric account id, as a string.

  • usernamestring

    Instagram username without the leading @.

  • verifiedboolean

    Whether the account carries Instagram's verified badge.

each mediadata.reels[].media[]

Photo, video, and GIF attachments on the post. Empty when the post has none.

  • heightinteger

    Pixel height of the media item, when the lane reports it.

  • typestring

    One of photo, video, or gif.

  • urlstring

    Image URL. For a video or GIF this is the poster/thumbnail frame.

  • videoUrlstring

    Playable video file URL. Present only for video and gif items.

  • widthinteger

    Pixel width of the media item, when the lane reports it.

each taggedUserdata.reels[].taggedUsers[]

Accounts tagged in the media. Null when the serving source does not report it.

  • displayNamestring

    Account display name.

  • userIdstring

    Instagram's numeric account id, as a string.

  • usernamestring

    Instagram username without the leading @.

top level
  • 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.

You get back. Named, typed fields in the same shape whichever source answers.

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FAQ

About the Instagram User reels API

The AnyAPI Instagram User reels API returns Instagram user reels data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/instagram.user_reels. List a profile’s reels by handle with cursor pagination: caption, plays, likes and comments. AnyAPI routes each request across 7 sources and falls back automatically when one fails. It costs from $0.80 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 99.9% of Instagram user reels calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 3.9 seconds across 191,511 measured calls.

It costs from $0.80 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet and each call draws it down. Some failed wallet-funded requests incur processing charges that we pass through at cost, with no markup; the error response shows the amount charged.

List a profile’s reels by handle with cursor pagination: caption, plays, likes and comments. 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, 99.9% of Instagram user reels calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 3.9 seconds across 191,511 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.

Yes. A new AnyAPI account starts with $0.10 of free balance and no card required, which covers 125 Instagram User reels calls at $0.0008 each.

AnyAPI asks the next of its 7 sources in the same request, cheapest first, so one source going down does not fail your call.

Send a POST request to https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.user_reels with your AnyAPI key in an "Authorization: Bearer" header and the input as a JSON body. The same key and the same wallet work on every AnyAPI endpoint.

No. You add US dollars to one prepaid AnyAPI balance and each request draws it down. There is no monthly plan and no minimum, and the same balance pays for every AnyAPI endpoint.

Yes. Install @getanyapi/sdk from npm for TypeScript or getanyapi from pip for Python. Both call every AnyAPI endpoint with the same key, and any HTTP client works too.

Yes. An agent can connect to the AnyAPI MCP server at https://api.getanyapi.com/mcp, or create its own free-trial key with one unauthenticated POST to https://api.getanyapi.com/agent/signup and call this endpoint over HTTP.
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