---
title: "Search Instagram accounts"
method: GET
path: "/instagram/search"
tags: ["Instagram"]
---

# Search Instagram accounts

`GET /instagram/search`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.scrapefield.com/v1`
- URL: `https://api.scrapefield.com/v1/instagram/search`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - none

Find Instagram accounts by a keyword: each account's username, name and link, the most relevant first, one page. The search answers from a search index, so it gives no counts: call `instagram/profile` with a username for the whole account. Use this to find creators and brands when you do not have a username.

Costs 3 credits, whether the answer is fetched or served from cache. A failed call is refunded automatically.

## Query parameters

- `query` string, required
- `limit` integer
- `fresh` boolean
- `demo` boolean

## Response `200`

The request succeeded.

- object
  - `data` InstagramSearchResult[], required
    - `username` string, required: Without the @.
    - `name` string, nullable, required: The display name, as the search index has it.
    - `url` string, uri, required: The account's page.
  - `meta` Meta, required
    - `request_id` string, required: Quote this if you contact support.
    - `credits_charged` integer, required: The endpoint's published cost. 0 for a demo answer, and for a list emptied because everyone in it asked not to be served. A failed call has no `meta`: it answers with an error, and is refunded.
    - `credits_remaining` integer
    - `cached` boolean, required
    - `fetched_at` string, date-time, required: When the data was actually fetched — the original time on a cache hit, so freshness is always visible.
    - `next_cursor` string, nullable, required: Pass as `cursor` for the next page. `null` on the last page. It lasts as long as the answer is cached.
    - `demo` boolean: Present, and true, on a demo answer (`?demo=true` with no key).
    - `note` string: On a demo answer: what it is, and what a live call costs.

## Other responses

- `400`: Something went wrong. `error.code` is stable; `error.message` says what to do next.
- `401`: Something went wrong. `error.code` is stable; `error.message` says what to do next.
- `403`: Something went wrong. `error.code` is stable; `error.message` says what to do next.
- `404`: Something went wrong. `error.code` is stable; `error.message` says what to do next.
- `429`: Something went wrong. `error.code` is stable; `error.message` says what to do next.
- `500`: Something went wrong. `error.code` is stable; `error.message` says what to do next.
- `501`: Something went wrong. `error.code` is stable; `error.message` says what to do next.
- `502`: Something went wrong. `error.code` is stable; `error.message` says what to do next.

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