instagram

List Instagram user reels

Returns a list of reels posted by an Instagram user. Each reel includes view count, like count, comment count, and thumbnail. Every row carries post.ext.media_type (video) and the remix counter Instagram shows at post.ext.remix_count, the number of reels made from this one. A reel that uses licensed music carries post.ext.music_id, the id /v1/instagram/audio/reels takes, and post.ext.music ({ id, track_title, artist, is_original }) on the plain call; send include=audio to add the same two leaves on reels that use an original sound, for 1 extra credit per reel filled. Send include=stats for the full stat line on every reel of the page, for 1 extra credit a page: engagement.shares, engagement.saves and post.ext.repost_count beside views, likes, comments and the remix counter, post.ext.music_id for every reel whatever its sound, and post.ext.audio_cluster_id, Instagram's audio cluster for the reel (the id Instagram uses to group different uploads of the same sound; the plain call does not carry it). exclude_pinned=true leaves out the reels pinned to the top of the reels tab, and recent_days=N keeps only reels from the last N days and stops the pagination once a page reaches older reels. Collaborative reels (Instagram's native "Collab" feature) carry the full co-author list under post.ext.coauthors as { id, username, full_name, is_verified, profile_pic_url }; post.author stays the producing account, which on a collab is not always the handle you queried. An empty array means Instagram reports the reel as not a collab; on a narrow record the key is absent rather than empty, which means the question was not answered for that row, so treat absent and [] as different. Note: engagement.shares is null on this endpoint (the upstream carries no per-post share count); to additionally merge in per-reel share counts where a second source exposes them (coverage varies by account), use /v1/instagram/profile/reels/full. With trim=true you get a lighter record: the engagement, the author, the caption, the timestamp and the reel URL are all still returned, but post.content.media_urls is null because the trimmed record carries no video file, post.content.duration_seconds is null, post.ext.coauthors is omitted and post.flags.pinned is null. The cover image is returned as post.content.thumbnail_url either way. Leave trim unset when you need the video URL or the duration. Instagram is currently serving two record shapes on this endpoint and one of them omits the caption, so post.content.text can be null on a page where the reel plainly has one; re-request to get a page from the fuller shape, or read the caption from /v1/instagram/post.

get/instagram/profile/reels

Request

  • Base URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1
  • URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/instagram/profile/reels
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

sincestring

Only reels published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Older reels are left off the page, and the page that reaches one ends the walk: next_cursor is not returned and pagination.stopped_at is since. Pinned reels sit out of date order and never end the walk. The page still costs what a page costs, so a daily poll pays for the pages it walks and no more.

stop_at_idstring

The id (post.id) or URL (post.url) of the newest reel you already hold. The page stops just before it: that reel and everything after it are left off, next_cursor is not returned, and pagination.stopped_at is known_id. A pinned reel never counts as the stop point. If it is not on this page the page is returned in full with its cursor, so keep walking. pagination.stopped_at is end when the list ran out first and null while there is more to walk.

user_idstring

Instagram user id. Use this for faster response times. (one of: user_id, handle; at least one required)

handlestring

Instagram username without the @ symbol (one of: user_id, handle; at least one required)

max_idstring

Max id to get more reels. Get 'max_id' from previous response. Native upstream cursor param. Send the universal cursor instead: the API maps it to this name for you.

trimboolean

Set to true to request the lighter upstream record: a smaller, faster page that keeps the engagement, the author, the caption, the timestamp and the reel URL. What it drops is post.content.media_urls (the video file), post.content.duration_seconds, post.ext.coauthors and post.flags.pinned. The cover image is returned as post.content.thumbnail_url either way. Leave it unset when you need the video URL or the duration.

exclude_pinnedboolean

Set to true to leave out the posts the owner pinned to the top of the profile. A row whose pin state is unknown, which is every row with trim=true, is kept.

recent_daysinteger

Keep only posts published in the last N days (1 to 3650). Older posts are removed from the page, pinned ones included, and once a page reaches posts older than the window next_cursor is not returned, so a walk back to a date window stops on its own. The page still costs what a page costs.

includestring

stats returns the full stat line on every reel for 1 extra credit a page: engagement.shares, engagement.saves and post.ext.repost_count beside views, likes, comments, the remix counter, post.ext.music_id for original sounds and licensed music alike, and post.ext.audio_cluster_id, Instagram's audio cluster for the reel. It is served by a second source, so a cursor from a request without it cannot continue a walk with it; start from page 1. audio adds post.ext.music_id and post.ext.music to reels still missing them from a second lookup: 1 extra credit per reel filled, refunded when the sound could not be read. Both tokens can be combined (include=audio,stats).

labelstring

Optional CSV of SocialCrawl labels to add to every post. Without this param every page already carries sponsored, intent and niche, free; label= adds the labels you name to them (the defaults keep running). sponsored, intent and niche are free when asked for too; mention, quality, intent with offer=, and injection add 1 credit per started 25 newly judged posts. judgments=off (or label=none) turns the default labels off. sponsored: is the post a paid or gifted promotion (p, 0 to 1), did it carry a disclosure marker such as #ad or 광고 (disclosed), is it likely paid with no marker (undisclosed), and which of the accounts it mentions does it promote (brand, or null). These are signals to review, never a finding. mention (needs brand=): is the post about that brand rather than something that shares its name (about_brand, 0 to 1), how it feels about the brand on five levels (sentiment_level 0 to 4 and sentiment_score 0 to 1, null when the post is not about the brand), is it sarcastic, which aspect it talks about (taste_or_quality, price_or_value, availability_or_delivery, health_or_safety, advertising_or_campaign, customer_service, none), and did the author buy or use it (first_hand). intent: what the author is mainly doing (label: asking_for_recommendation, comparing_options, switching_away, complaining, promoting, news_or_discussion, other, or null when unsure, with confidence), whether they read as a potential buyer rather than a seller (buyer, seller), how pressing the need is (urgency, 0 to 3), and, when you pass offer=, whether your offer would plausibly help them (fits_offer). niche: which of the 33 niches of the published taxonomy sc-niche-v1 the caption belongs to, or personal_no_niche, or other (label, confidence, taxonomy), with label null when the caption is too thin to tell or the pick is unsure. It reads the caption only, not the video. quality: how much checkable detail the caption carries (fact_density 0 to 3), whether it mainly asks for likes, replies, shares, follows or tags (engagement_bait, 0 to 1), whether it is written to provoke anger as a way to get engagement (rage_bait, 0 to 1; about the writing, never the side taken), whether it only repeats someone else's news or view (secondhand, 0 to 1), and what the post is mainly doing (post_aim: inform, opinion, sell, entertain, provoke, other). exclude=engagement_bait drops posts whose engagement_bait is 0.8 or higher. injection flags text that addresses an AI system and tries to direct it (flagged, p); it never drops or rewrites a row. A post that could not be judged carries labels: null. Posts already labelled for anyone are free, and so is a cached page. data.labels reports what was judged and billed.

excludestring

Optional CSV (engagement_bait), only with label=quality. Drops posts whose engagement_bait probability is 0.8 or higher and lists their ids in data.labels.dropped_ids. A post that could not be judged is never dropped.

brandstring

Required by label=mention, ignored otherwise. The brand or product the posts are judged against, up to 300 characters, for example brand=Buldak. Without it label=mention is skipped with the warning label_mention_needs_brand and is not billed.

brand_descriptionstring

Optional, with label=mention. One plain sentence saying what the brand is, for example brand_description=Samyang's spicy instant noodle brand. Use it when the name is also an ordinary word or another company's name.

offerstring

Optional, with label=intent. One or two plain sentences saying what you sell, up to 300 characters, for example offer=A web design agency that builds websites for small businesses. Adds fits_offer to every post; without it fits_offer is null.

judgments'on' | 'off'

Optional, on (the default) or off. By default every row gains free SocialCrawl judgments (computed.labels, and computed.relevance on search endpoints), reported in data.labels (mode default) and data.relevance (origin default), each with a status (complete, partial or skipped) and pending: the rows still being judged when the page was sent, which carry null now and are filled on your next call or cached read. Default judgments never add credits, never change an existing field, and never drop or reorder a row. off returns the page exactly as before, with none of those keys. label=none does the same.

dry_run'1'

Optional. When 1, return a cost preview for this labelled or relevance-filtered request without fetching the page or judging any row. data.estimate reports rows_expected, rows_cached, label_credits_min, label_credits_max and base_credits. 0 credits charged.

label_evidence'1'

Optional, only with label=. When 1, every labelled row also carries computed.labels_evidence.<preset> = { quote, sentence_index }: the sentence in the row that most clearly shows the label, copied verbatim. Absent or null when no single sentence shows it.

fit'goal'

Optional. When goal, keep the rows and fields needed for the goal you pass in goal= (plus any that are uncertain, and the first and last), and replace the rest with a stub. data.held_back lists the held ids and a recall id that re-reads the full page from cache at no extra charge. Without this param the page is unchanged.

goalstring

Required by fit=goal. What you are trying to do, in your own words, up to 300 characters.

fit_tokensinteger

Optional, only with fit=goal. Soft cap on how much of the page to keep, in tokens. Uncertain blocks and the first and last block are kept even if they exceed it.

untilstring

Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept. published_before, end_date and to_date are accepted and applied as until.

cursorstring

Universal pagination cursor. Send pagination.next_cursor from the previous response back verbatim: the API maps it to this endpoint's native max_id (cursor style). You never construct, decode, or look up a cursor. Omit it for page 1.

Headers

Cache-Controlstring

Send no-cache to bypass the response cache and force a live fetch. Billed at the normal endpoint cost; the fresh result is written back to cache for the next caller. Only the no-cache directive triggers this. See the Response Schema guide for details.

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional UUID that makes the request safely retriable. The key is reserved atomically per account before billing. A concurrent retry receives 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS with a Retry-After of 1 second while the original is young, growing to a quarter of the time it has been running (at most 30); a crashed reservation expires after 5 minutes. A replay keeps the cached payload immutable except for billing metadata: credits_used becomes 0, idempotent_replay becomes true, and credits_remaining is refreshed to the current balance. A known current balance appears in both the body and X-Credits-Remaining header; no balance row resolves to 0. On a transient lookup failure, body credits_remaining is null and X-Credits-Remaining is omitted. Completed outcomes expire after 24 hours. If the claim store is unavailable, the request fails closed before billing. GET endpoints do not combine idempotent replay with Server-Sent Events: use Accept: application/json when sending this header. The unsupported key-plus-SSE combination is rejected before billing.

Response

Successful response

successboolean required

Whether the request succeeded

platformstring required

Platform name

endpointstring required

API endpoint path

credits_usedinteger required

Number of credits consumed

credits_remaininginteger nullable required

Current account balance, or null when this response could not establish one. Free cache hits always return null because they do not establish an authoritative post-request balance. An idempotency replay also returns null when its current-balance lookup fails. It is never a fabricated zero, so a zero here means the account really is empty. The authoritative reading is the one on a billed response, which comes straight from the deduction.

request_idstring required

Unique request identifier for support

cachedboolean required

Whether the response was served from cache

idempotent_replayboolean

True only when this response is an idempotency replay

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "instagram",
  "endpoint": "/v1/instagram/profile/reels",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "request_id": "req-abc123",
  "idempotent_replay": true,
  "meta": {
    "hint": {
      "code": "search_multi",
      "message": "You searched \"matcha\" on 3 platforms one call at a time; /v1/search/multi returns each platform's own search rows in one call at the same price per platform, and a platform with no rows is not charged.",
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/v1/search/multi?query=matcha&platforms=instagram,tiktok,youtube"
    }
  },
  "pagination": {
    "next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoiMiIsInAiOiJwYWdlIn0",
    "has_more": true,
    "page_size": 30,
    "stopped_at": "known_id"
  }
}

Changes

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