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Instagram Search & Hashtags Scraper

Scrape every post & reel behind any Instagram hashtag — 70+ data points & latest comments.

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Export posts from Instagram — right now

Extract

Enter a hashtag or keyword and get every Instagram post and reel behind it — 70+ data points per post.

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Schedule

Automate Instagram data collection on daily, weekly, or monthly schedules.

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Export

Export all post data to Google Sheets, email, or S3 — fully automated.

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Built for Agents

Run it from your stack.
Or hand it to your agent.

Instagram Search & Hashtags Scraper ships with a Python SDK, a one-line CLI and a native MCP server your agents can plug into directly — no rate limits to dodge, no bot mitigation to bypass, no parsing errors to chase down.

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Get your API key
# install once (Python 3.10+)
pip install lobstrio

# check your token
lobstr whoami

# find the scraper
lobstr crawlers search "instagram"

# one call — launch, wait, download
lobstr go instagram-search-hashtags-scraper \
  "birdsofinstagram" \
  -o results.csv

55 data attributes per post

Every scrape returns structured data you can export as CSV, JSON, JSONL, XLSX, or via API.

url

Canonical URL of the Instagram post or reel

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQxPrZwkfZZ/
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Reel Url

Direct reel URL (populated for video reels)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQt1HbPDFtN/
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Post Id

Unique numeric identifier (media pk) of the post or reel

3760856117124658777
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shortcode

Shortcode used in the Instagram URL (instagram.com/p/[shortcode])

DQxPrZwkfZZ
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Input Search

The hashtag or keyword this item was discovered under

birdsofinstagram
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Source Url

The Instagram hashtag/search page URL this item was collected from

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/bir…
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rank

Position of this item within the hashtag/keyword top results

1
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Media Type

Type of media (image, video, carousel)

video
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Is Video

Whether the media is a video/reel

True
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Is Carousel

Whether the media is a multi-slide carousel

False
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Fast

280 posts per minute
Lightning-fast performance

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Solid

99.95% task success rate
Dependable, reliable data every time

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Cost-competitive

$0.5 per 1000 posts
Top affordability worldwide

Live

Built to run.

Most scrapers break in silence. This one doesn't — and we show it, openly.

97.62%

incident-free runs · last 90 days

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Tracked from every run. Incidents stay on the record even after they're fixed.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is it legal to scrape Instagram hashtags?

Yes — a hashtag feed is public content. You export what any visitor scrolling that tag can already see, and nothing that sits behind a private wall. The finer points are in our guide to the legality of web scraping.

Do I need an Instagram account to use this scraper?

Yes — you sync your own account once, through our Chrome extension. Instagram serves hashtag and search results to logged-in visitors only, so it is the price of entry. We use the session, never your password. How to sync an account.

What data do I get for each post?

70+ data points per post or reel. Caption, hashtags, mentions, alt text, the owner's username, name and verified badge, likes, comments, views, reshares, media links and carousel items, tagged users, coauthors, music, location with coordinates, and the date it went up.

How fast is it?

Around 280 posts a minute. A hashtag that took a community a week to fill takes you a coffee break to export, and the media links and engagement counts land in the same run rather than a second one.

Can I scrape a keyword search as well as a hashtag?

Yes — both. A hashtag with or without the # symbol, a tag address, a plain keyword or a full Instagram search all work. Each one is its own task, and you can queue as many as your campaign list is long in a single run.

Can I choose between Top posts and Recent?

Yes — one setting picks the tab. Recent gives you the chronological feed, which goes deepest and pairs beautifully with a date cut-off; Top gives you the ranked posts Instagram puts first. Reels and image posts can be kept or dropped on their own.

How many posts can I collect per hashtag?

As many as Instagram will show — or exactly the number you name. Cap a single hashtag with a max results limit and the whole run with a unique-results limit, so ten overlapping tags never bill you twice for the same post.

Can I only keep recent posts?

Yes — set a cut-off and older posts are dropped. A window like 24h, 7d or 2w, or a date in your own timezone. Pair it with the Recent tab and the scraper turns into a daily hashtag monitor that never collects yesterday twice.

Does it collect comments too?

Yes — the 10 latest comments on each post or reel. It is optional, and it does slow the run down, so leave it off when you are after media and engagement, and switch it on when you want the conversation underneath as well.

Where can I send the posts once they are scraped?

Just about anywhere you already work. Google Sheets, Make, n8n, Amazon S3, email, webhooks — plus our MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can launch a run and read the posts back. CSV, Excel and JSON downloads too. See all integrations.

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