Get an Instagram profile
Retrieve a public Instagram profile by handle or numeric user ID, including identity, bio, links, follower and following counts, verification, business category and profile pictures. Use trim for a compact projection. Each successful request costs 1 account credit, including partial results. Failed requests cost 0 credits.
Request
- Base URL: https://api.scrapeatlas.com
- URL: https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/instagram/profile
- Auth: API key in header x-api-key
Query parameters
Numeric Instagram user id; exactly one of handle and user_id. Answered from the profile document alone, without a page load.
Instagram username (1–30 letters, digits, periods, underscores; leading @ accepted); exactly one of handle and user_id.
true returns the reference's trimmed profile projection under the mobile-API names: biography, bio_links, biography_with_entities, external_url, follower_count, fbid_v2, following_count, full_name, id, is_business, is_professional_account, category, is_private, is_verified, profile_pic_url, hd_profile_pic_url_info and username.
Response
Inspect the response status and failure or coverage fields.
Changes
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