How to Scrape Instagram Post Comments

This tutorial shows how to use Instagram Post Comments API to scrape and crawl structured Instagram data in real-time.
Collect Instagram comment threads in bulk including commenter usernames, text, timestamps, and reply counts for sentiment and community research.

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Access Instagram Data in 3 Steps

Start crawling Instagram post comments data. Follow these steps to extract social media data in minutes.

Create Your Account

Go to our registration page and make an account. It's free, no credit card, and you get credits right away to play around with.

Verify Your Email Address

You'll get a verification email, click the link in it. Once that's done, you can grab your API token from the dashboard.

Make Your First API Call

Copy the code snippet below, swap in your API key, and run it. You'll get Instagram data back as JSON within a few seconds.

Code Sample

Here's a JavaScript example to get you going. Swap out the token and you're good, works the same way in any language that can make HTTP requests. Start collecting post comments data via our REST API!

JavaScript

Instagram Post Comments

1	const root = 'https://ensembledata.com/apis'
2	const endpoint = '/instagram/post/comments'
3	const params = {
4	"media_id": "3511510130787749851",
5	"cursor": "",
6	"sorting": "popular",
7	"token": "YOUR-TOKEN-HERE"
8	}
9
10	const queryString = new URLSearchParams(params).toString();
11	const url = `${root}${endpoint}?${queryString}`;
12
13	await fetch(url)
14	.then(response => response.json())
15	.then(data => console.log(data))
16	.catch(error => console.error(error));
17

Parameters

media_id (integer) Media ID can be found using the other APIs. REQUIRED

cursor (string) Parameter to manually handle pagination. Each response contains a `nextCursor` which can be used to retrieve the next page of results by sending it as the next `cursor`. If the `nextCursor` is not present in the response, it means that there are no more results to retrieve. REQUIRED

sorting Fetch TOP comments (only 15 allowed) OR RECENT (start from most recent and iterate) REQUIRED

token (string) Private token assigned to each client to access the APIs. REQUIRED

Example Response

Explore the fields returned by this endpoint. Click a row to expand nested objects and arrays, hover a value to copy it, or use "Expand all" to see everything at once.

JSON

Instagram Post Comments

dataobject2 fields

commentsarray1 item · schema from #0 1 item

nodeobject13 fields

pkstring"18079390237903009"

userobject7 fields

is_verifiedbooleanfalse

idstring"64490093540"

pkstring"64490093540"

is_unpublishednullnull

profile_pic_urlstring"https://scontent-scl2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/522369108_17915…"

usernamestring"zeeshankhan_abbasi6"

fbid_v2string"17841464486221261"

is_coveredbooleanfalse

child_comment_countnumber0

restricted_statusnullnull

has_translationnullnull

has_liked_commentnullnull

textstring"🔥🔥🔥"

giphy_media_infonullnull

created_atnumber1754086530

parent_comment_idnullnull

comment_like_countnullnull

__typenamestring"XDTCommentDict"

cursorstring""

nextCursorstring"{\"server_cursor\": \"QVFEZC01eGxyeUlfUXFfRU5VNHNJcFlFZkxNODl1bFh3clBX…"

Response Codes

Status codes this endpoint can return, so you can handle errors before they surprise you in production.

200SuccessSuccessful Response

422Client ErrorValidation Error

491Client ErrorToken not found

492Client ErrorEmail not verified

493Client ErrorSubscription expired

495Client ErrorAll daily units used

500Server ErrorSomething went wrong

API Pricing

2 units Cost per successful call to this endpoint.

Fetch Instagram Data at Scale

Use Instagram comment data to run sentiment analysis, monitor community discussions, and improve how you engage with your target audience.

Full Comment Data

Get commenter usernames, text, and timestamps per comment.

Reply Threads

Reconstruct nested reply conversations under any Instagram post.

Sentiment Ready

Feed clean comment text straight into sentiment analysis tools.