Search Instagram's popular reels on a topic
The reels Instagram lists on its public popular page for a topic: shortcode, author, caption, exact play count and the date read off the media id. This is indexed discovery, not a hashtag feed. Instagram publishes these pages for some words only (art, travel and music have one; fitness and nasa did not when measured), lists up to 12 reels, and says in hasMore when it has more that cannot be read without signing in. A word with no page answers indexed: false and costs nothing. Cached for thirty minutes.
Request
- Base URL: https://api.socially.run/v1
- URL: https://api.socially.run/v1/search/instagram
- Auth: HTTP bearer
Query parameters
The topic, the way Instagram names its popular pages: one word or a few ("travel", "street photography"). Not every word has a page.
Reels to return, 1–12. One page is one read: a smaller limit on the same topic is served from it.
Read the page again instead of serving the half-hour cache. Charged like any read, and the fresh answer replaces the cached one.
Response
Search Instagram's popular reels on a topic
Changes
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