Instagram Posts

Read one page of Instagram posts for a handle through REST or MCP. Inspect available captions, media and engagement fields; paginate manually with a cursor.

CostAt least 10 credits / call

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POST · https://api.nexscope.ai/instagram/postsMCP · social_instagram_posts

What this API does

Read one page of Instagram posts for a handle through REST or MCP. Inspect available captions, media and engagement fields; paginate manually with a cursor. The request accepts handle, require_play_counts, trim, cursor. Its documented result includes fetchedAt, hasMore, author.handle, author.id, author.name, author.url, caption, commentCount.

Instagram Posts API use cases

Plan a Instagram Posts request

A researcher checks the published operation description and supplies handle, require_play_counts, trim, cursor for Instagram Posts. The request stays within the supported parameters rather than assuming other platform capabilities.

Inspect Instagram Posts results

An analyst reviews fetchedAt, hasMore, author.handle, author.id, author.name, author.url, caption, commentCount from Instagram Posts for the requested subject. Missing values remain explicit, and the response does not establish complete platform coverage.

Document Instagram Posts observations

A researcher records the inputs and available results from Instagram Posts alongside its published description. The record supports a scoped review without inferring unsupported actions, refresh intervals or broader conclusions.

Instagram Posts API FAQ

What does the Instagram Posts API return?

Read one page of Instagram posts for a handle through REST or MCP. Inspect available captions, media and engagement fields; paginate manually with a cursor. The documented output includes fetchedAt, hasMore, author.handle, author.id, author.name, author.url, caption, commentCount. It corresponds to the supplied handle, require_play_counts, trim, cursor. Optional fields can be absent; a missing value should not be interpreted as a measured zero. Example values illustrate the response shape, rather than live account results.

How many credits does the Instagram Posts API cost?

The current documented cost is At least 10 credits / call. This is the same cost shown at the top of this page. If a range or estimate is displayed, the final charge depends on the request. Review your available credits and the pricing page before calling the API, and check API usage records for the actual charge.

How do I call the Instagram Posts API from my app or an MCP client?

Send a POST request to https://api.nexscope.ai/instagram/posts with your API key as a Bearer token and the JSON inputs shown in API integration. In a compatible MCP client such as Claude or Cursor, connect Nexscope and call social_instagram_posts. Use the MCP arguments shown in the MCP guide, or switch Online test to MCP to review its request before adding it to your app.

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Endpoint

https://api.nexscope.ai/instagram/posts

MCP method

social_instagram_posts

Step 1 of 3 · Authenticate

Authentication

All run endpoints require a user API key. Send it as a bearer token in the Authorization header.

Authorization: Bearer nk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Missing or invalid API keys return an authentication error. Manage keys from .

Step 2 of 3 · Send a request

POSThttps://api.nexscope.ai/instagram/posts

Run an API

Send a JSON request body using the parameters described below.

Example request

Replace YOUR_API_KEY, then run this command in your terminal.

curl -X POST 'https://api.nexscope.ai/instagram/posts' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "handle": "scrapecreators"
}'

Code example

{
  "handle": "scrapecreators"
}

Step 3 of 3 · Inspect the result

Check the response

Read code for the request status and data for the result. Open the parameter and response reference for the full field definitions.

HTTP status codes

Code	Description
200	Default HTTP response for both success and many business errors. Only outer JSON code 0 indicates success or asynchronous acceptance; inspect data for the result.
429	Execution admission rate limit; honor Retry-After when present.
503	Execution admission is temporarily unavailable; honor Retry-After when present.
Opt-in	X-Nexscope-Http-Status: semantic maps controller-handled business errors to HTTP status on run and task routes. Pre-authentication failures, such as a missing API key (code 11209), may still return HTTP 200 before this mapping. Always check the outer JSON code; malformed requests and infrastructure failures may also return non-200 HTTP responses.

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POSThttps://api.nexscope.ai/instagram/posts

Run this API

Send a JSON request to execute this API and receive the documented response payload.

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Endpoint

Method	`POST`
Path	`https://api.nexscope.ai/instagram/posts`
Auth	`Bearer API key`
Content-Type	`application/json`

Request parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`handle`	`string`	required	handle Example: scrapecreators
`require_play_counts`	`boolean`	optional	Only the literal query value 'true' enables this check. It requires play_count on each returned video post; a real 0 is valid. It does not require ig_play_count or view counts, or counts on photos. If a required play_count is missing or null, the request returns an error without charging credits instead of a paid partial success. With the default false, counts remain best-effort: usable posts are still billable even with missing play counts. Retrying does not guarantee that Instagram will return the missing counts. [Why counts can be missing](https://scrapecreators.com/blog/instagram-play-counts-missing).
`trim`	`boolean`	optional	Set to true to get a trimmed response
`cursor`	`string`	optional	Opaque single-page cursor, at most 65536 UTF-8 bytes.

Social data contract

Use your Nexscope API key. No supplier credentials are required. Requests reject unknown fields, including pageSize. URLs require HTTPS and an exact supported platform host and resource path. Documented YouTube video URLs may use youtu.be; other short links are unsupported. Check the request schema for supported fields and defaults.

Each request fetches one page. Continue manually with the returned nextCursor, or nextPage for Instagram Reels (pages 1–11). Cursors are opaque, unchanged strings up to 65536 UTF-8 bytes. No automatic pagination, retry, media download or transcription is performed. Repeated requests may purchase data again.

Resource status is independent of HTTP and billing: AVAILABLE, PARTIAL, PRIVATE, RESTRICTED, NOT_FOUND, NO_TRANSCRIPT or UNKNOWN can accompany code 0. Unknown values remain null; arrays remain empty arrays. fetchedAt is the response observation time; sourceFetchedAt is null without source evidence.

usage.billingStatus is NOT_CHARGED, SETTLED or UNKNOWN; chargedCredits is null when unconfirmed. Unknown charges never mean free. Completed lookups have a minimum charge of 10 credits, including cached, no-caption and unavailable-resource results; check API usage records for the actual charge. Parameter errors and unpublished APIs use the standard error envelope; upstream failures use code 13007, rate limits 429 and timeouts 408. Always check code and msg.

Response example

Platform response envelope. code 0 indicates success or acceptance; data contains the business result.

{
  "code": 0,
  "cost": "-1",
  "data": {
    "fetchedAt": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z",
    "hasMore": false,
    "items": [],
    "nextCursor": null,
    "platform": "instagram",
    "resourceStatus": "NOT_FOUND",
    "sourceFetchedAt": null,
    "usage": {
      "billingStatus": "UNKNOWN",
      "chargedCredits": null
    }
  },
  "msg": null,
  "time": "2026-01-01 00:00:00",
  "traceId": null,
  "ts": "0"
}

Response fields

Name	Type	Required	Description
`code`	`integer`	required	0 means accepted or successful; nonzero is a platform error.
`cost`	`string`	required	Elapsed milliseconds, never credits; -1 outside web requests.
`data`	`any`	required	Data value used by this API operation.
`msg`	`string \| null`	required	Msg value used by this API operation.
`time`	`string`	required	Server local time: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.
`traceId`	`string \| null`	required	Trace id value used by this API operation.
`ts`	`string`	required	Epoch milliseconds.

Any of option 1 — requires platform, resourceStatus, fetchedAt, sourceFetchedAt, usage, items, nextCursor, hasMore

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data`	`object`	required	Data value used by this API operation.
`data.fetchedAt`	`string`	required	Fetched at value used by this API operation. Format: date-time
`data.hasMore`	`boolean`	required	Has more value used by this API operation.
`data.items`	`array`	required	Items value used by this API operation.
`data.items[]`	`object`	required	Item in data items.
`data.items[].author`	`any`	required	Author value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].caption`	`any`	required	Caption value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].commentCount`	`any`	required	Comment count value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].id`	`any`	required	Id value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].likeCount`	`any`	required	Like count value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].media`	`array`	required	Media value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].media[]`	`object`	required	Item in data items[] media.
`data.items[].media[].thumbnailUrl`	`any`	required	Thumbnail url value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].media[].type`	`string`	required	Type value used by this API operation. Allowed: IMAGE, VIDEO, UNKNOWN
`data.items[].media[].url`	`any`	required	Url value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].publishedAt`	`any`	required	Published at value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].type`	`string`	required	Type value used by this API operation. Allowed: POST, REEL, UNKNOWN
`data.items[].url`	`any`	required	Url value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].viewCount`	`any`	required	View count value used by this API operation.
`data.nextCursor`	`any`	required	Next cursor value used by this API operation.
`data.platform`	`string`	required	Platform value used by this API operation. Allowed: instagram, youtube, reddit, pinterest
`data.resourceStatus`	`string`	required	Resource status value used by this API operation. Allowed: AVAILABLE, PARTIAL, PRIVATE, RESTRICTED, NOT_FOUND, NO_TRANSCRIPT, UNKNOWN
`data.sourceFetchedAt`	`any`	required	Source fetched at value used by this API operation.
`data.usage`	`object`	required	Usage value used by this API operation.
`data.usage.billingStatus`	`string`	required	Billing status value used by this API operation. Allowed: NOT_CHARGED, SETTLED, UNKNOWN
`data.usage.chargedCredits`	`any`	required	Charged credits value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1 — requires id, handle, name, url

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].author`	`object`	required	Author value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].author.handle`	`any`	required	Handle value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].author.id`	`any`	required	Id value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].author.name`	`any`	required	Name value used by this API operation.
`data.items[].author.url`	`any`	required	Url value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].author.handle`	`string`	required	Handle value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].author.handle`	`null`	required	Handle value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].author.id`	`string`	required	Id value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].author.id`	`null`	required	Id value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].author.name`	`string`	required	Name value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].author.name`	`null`	required	Name value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].author.url`	`string`	required	Url value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].author.url`	`null`	required	Url value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].author`	`null`	required	Author value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].caption`	`string`	required	Caption value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].caption`	`null`	required	Caption value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].commentCount`	`number`	required	Comment count value used by this API operation. Minimum: 0

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].commentCount`	`null`	required	Comment count value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].id`	`string`	required	Id value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].id`	`null`	required	Id value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].likeCount`	`number`	required	Like count value used by this API operation. Minimum: 0

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].likeCount`	`null`	required	Like count value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].media[].thumbnailUrl`	`string`	required	Thumbnail url value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].media[].thumbnailUrl`	`null`	required	Thumbnail url value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].media[].url`	`string`	required	Url value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].media[].url`	`null`	required	Url value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].publishedAt`	`string`	required	Published at value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].publishedAt`	`null`	required	Published at value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].url`	`string`	required	Url value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].url`	`null`	required	Url value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].viewCount`	`number`	required	View count value used by this API operation. Minimum: 0

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.items[].viewCount`	`null`	required	View count value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.nextCursor`	`string`	required	Next cursor value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.nextCursor`	`null`	required	Next cursor value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.sourceFetchedAt`	`string`	required	Source fetched at value used by this API operation. Format: date-time

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.sourceFetchedAt`	`null`	required	Source fetched at value used by this API operation.

Any of option 1

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.usage.chargedCredits`	`number`	required	Charged credits value used by this API operation. Minimum: 0

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data.usage.chargedCredits`	`null`	required	Charged credits value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data`	`null`	required	Data value used by this API operation.

Responses

Code	Description
200	Default HTTP response for both success and many business errors. Only outer JSON code 0 indicates success or asynchronous acceptance; inspect data for the result.
429	Execution admission rate limit; honor Retry-After when present.
503	Execution admission is temporarily unavailable; honor Retry-After when present.
Opt-in	X-Nexscope-Http-Status: semantic maps controller-handled business errors to HTTP status on run and task routes. Pre-authentication failures, such as a missing API key (code 11209), may still return HTTP 200 before this mapping. Always check the outer JSON code; malformed requests and infrastructure failures may also return non-200 HTTP responses.

Data source, freshness, and limitations

Source, freshness, coverage, rate limits, and estimation notes are not specified in this API definition unless they appear in the request or response field documentation above. Do not assume official marketplace data or real-time freshness when it is not explicitly documented.

Step 1 of 2 · Connect your MCP client

MCP

V2 recommended

Connect remote agents through the standard MCP 2025-11-25 Streamable HTTP endpoint. Use OAuth 2.1 Authorization Code with PKCE, or an API key for compatibility.

POST https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp
MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-11-25
Content-Type: application/json

Authentication

OAuth clients request the mcp:tools scope. The endpoint's 401 response advertises protected-resource metadata for authorization discovery.

Step 2 of 2 · Call the tool

Call a tool

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "tool-call-1",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "social_instagram_posts",
    "arguments": {
      "handle": "scrapecreators"
    }
  }
}

Legacy MCP v1

Existing API-key clients can continue using the compatibility endpoint. New integrations should use MCP v2.

GET / POST /mcp/legacy

What can you do with this API?

Data explained and practical use cases

AI Guide

Question

What data can Instagram Posts provide, and how might I use it?

AI answer

Returns a paginated feed of a user's public Instagram posts, including reels, photos, videos, and carousels. Each item includes media type, shortcode, caption text, like count, comment count, play count, video URLs, image URLs, tagged users, and the published time in items[].created_at as an ISO 8601 UTC date. When supplied by Instagram, the media-level fbid is also returned. The original Unix timestamp remains available in items[].taken_at. Play counts reflect Instagram-only views and

Data category	Documented fields	How to use them
Request	`handle`, `cursor`, `require_play_counts`	Provide the required identifiers, filters, or paging inputs listed in the API document.
Response	`data.fetchedAt`, `data.hasMore`, `data.items[].author.handle`, `data.items[].author.id`, `data.items[].author.name`, `data.items[].commentCount`, `data.items[].likeCount`, `data.items[].viewCount`	Inspect returned values and source references; availability depends on the request and upstream source.

Review Instagram Posts.
- Prompt example: “Retrieve Instagram Posts for [account handle]. Summarize only the information actually returned and preserve source links when available. Report private, restricted, missing or partial results explicitly; missing values are not zero.”
Collect a Bounded Set of Results.
- Prompt example: “Retrieve Instagram Posts for [account handle] across at most two pages within my approved credit budget. Use only the continuation information actually returned, with the same query and filters. Stop at the documented page limit, an absent continuation, an end indicator or a repeated page. Keep source references and report that the collection is bounded, not exhaustive.”
Review Items With Verified Play Counts.
- Prompt example: “Use Instagram Posts for [account handle]. Require the documented numeric play-count check. Keep a genuine zero distinct from a missing count and report a failed check rather than inventing counts.”
Prepare a Snapshot of Returned Public Counts.
- Prompt example: “Retrieve Instagram Posts for [account handle] and make a compact table of the public counts actually returned. Keep each count attached to its item or account, label estimates and preserve the observation time when supplied. Do not invent engagement rates, historical growth, unique audience size or missing values.”

These are suggested workflows, not completed lookups. Report missing, restricted, or partial data explicitly; verify the live response before making a decision.

Online test

Execute the current API with your API key and JSON payload. Online tests use this site's configured API environment; the Endpoint and copyable examples use the public integration address.

One request fetches one page. Copy nextCursor into cursor, or nextPage into page (1–11 for Reels), then run manually. Repeated requests may purchase data again. Completed lookups have a minimum charge of 10 credits, including cached, no-caption, private, restricted and not-found results. Resource status and actual billing status are independent; null credits are unknown, never free. Check usage.billingStatus, usage.chargedCredits and API usage records for the actual charge.

Try it

Send a real request with the same contract shown in the reference.

Endpoint

/instagram/posts

MCP method

social_instagram_posts

API key*

JSON payload*

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://api.nexscope.ai/instagram/posts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nk-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "handle": "scrapecreators" }'

Request estimate: Estimating…Usage based. The final charge depends on actual usage. Estimating does not run the API or charge credits.API usage records

Response

No response yet. Run the request to see the response here.

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