How to Scrape Instagram Tagged Posts
This tutorial shows how to use Instagram Tagged Posts API to scrape and crawl structured Instagram data in real-time.
Monitor brand visibility on Instagram with our tagged posts API and retrieve every post where a user or brand is tagged, including engagement data and post context.
Access Instagram Data in 3 Steps
Start crawling Instagram tagged content 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 tagged content data via our REST API!
JavaScript | 1 | const root = 'https://ensembledata.com/apis' |
| 2 | const endpoint = '/instagram/user/tagged-posts' |
| 3 | const params = { |
| 4 | "user_id": 325734299, |
| 5 | "cursor": "", |
| 6 | "chunk_size": "10", |
| 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
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.
dataobject2 fields
postsarray1 item · schema from #0 1 item
nodeobject17 fields
edge_media_to_captionobject1 field
edgesarray1 item · schema from #0 1 item
nodeobject1 field
edge_media_to_commentobject1 field
dimensionsobject2 fields
edge_liked_byobject1 field
edge_media_preview_likeobject1 field
ownerobject2 fields
Response Codes
Status codes this endpoint can return, so you can handle errors before they surprise you in production.
API Pricing
Fetch Instagram Data at Scale
Scrape Instagram tagged post data at scale for brand monitoring, UGC campaigns, and influencer outreach research.
Tag Monitoring
Find every public post where a user or brand was tagged.
UGC Discovery
Surface user-generated content mentioning your brand organically.
Engagement Data
Get engagement and context for each tagged post returned.