Instagram Music API
Track which audio tracks are gaining traction on Instagram, useful for content creators and music marketers who need reliable data on trending sounds.
Python | 1 | import requests |
| 2 | |
| 3 | root = "https://ensembledata.com/apis" |
| 4 | endpoint = "/instagram/music/posts" |
| 5 | params = { |
| 6 | "id": "3473785566185564", |
| 7 | "cursor": "", |
| 8 | "token": "YOUR-TOKEN-HERE" |
| 9 | } |
| 10 | |
| 11 | res = requests.get(root+endpoint, params=params) |
| 12 | print(res.json()) |
| 13 |
Why Developer Teams Use Our API
Track Trending Audio
See which sounds are gaining traction on Instagram before they hit peak usage.
Usage Count Data
Get a clear count of how many posts use a given track right now.
Content Timing Insights
Plan posts around audio that's actively climbing instead of guessing at trends.
Linked Post Discovery
Find the content driving a sound's popularity, not just its raw usage total.
Live Trend Snapshots
Every lookup reflects current usage data pulled directly from Instagram.
Simple Track ID Lookup
Pass a track identifier and get back clean, structured trend metadata.
Scrape Instagram Data Effortlessly
Our Instagram music API surfaces trending tracks and their performance data so you can plan content around sounds that are actually picking up momentum.
Reels Sound Discovery
Identify which audio tracks are showing up across trending Instagram Reels.
Track ID Resolution
Convert an Instagram audio ID from any Reel into full usage and trend metadata.
Momentum Comparison
Compare usage growth across Instagram sounds to find the next breakout track.
Instagram Scraping Features
Find out which audio is performing best on Instagram before it peaks, useful for content scheduling, music promotion, and staying ahead of platform trends.
- Look up a specific audio ID and get back Reels and posts currently using that track.
- See cumulative usage counts to gauge how much traction a sound has picked up overall.
- Trace back which content is driving a track's popularity through linked post data.
- Query original creator audio the same way as licensed commercial music tracks.
- Time content around audio that's actively climbing instead of guessing at Reels trends.
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Contact usFrequently Asked Questions
It returns Reels and posts associated with a specific audio track, along with usage frequency and post counts for that sound.
You provide the music/audio ID from an Instagram Reel, and the endpoint returns trend and usage data tied to that track.
Yes, tracking usage counts for sounds over time helps identify tracks gaining momentum, which is useful for timing content around trending audio.
Yes, associated post data is included, letting you see which content is driving a track's popularity on Instagram.
It covers both, though usage on Reels tends to dominate the results since that's where trending audio is most active on Instagram.
Pull it from the audio field returned by the Reels or Posts endpoints for any post already using that track, then pass it into this endpoint.
Yes, original audio clips get their own ID just like licensed tracks and can be queried the same way to see usage and linked posts.
The usage count reflects cumulative all-time usage for that audio ID, not a rolling recent window.