Search Instagram Posts
Search for Instagram posts by keyword. Returns post captions, engagement metrics (likes, comments, shares, reposts, views), author metadata, hashtags, mentions, media URLs, carousel slides, audio track info, tagged users, and location. Supports fetching multiple pages in a single API call (billed per page).
Price: $0.006 per page. Free tier: 50 requests/month.
Request
- Base URL: https://apidirect.io
- URL: https://apidirect.io/v1/instagram/posts
- Auth: API key in header X-API-Key
Query parameters
Search keyword (max 500 characters). Cannot start with @ or #, though either character may appear elsewhere in the query.
Number of pages to fetch and merge into one response (1-20, billed per page)
Set to true to add AI emotion analysis to each post. Adds a sentiment object containing emotions (joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger and anticipation, each scored 0-100), dominant_emotion, emotional_intensity (0-10), and polarity (positive, negative or neutral). Any post that cannot be scored returns sentiment: null.
Response
Successful response
Changes
No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.