Instagram Scraper
Get Instagram profiles, posts, and reels
by Athina AInpx gooseworks install --all # then, in Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex: /gooseworks use the instagram-scraper skill
Instagram Scraper
Setup
Read scrapecreators-api first. Execute every operation below through the runtime it selects: the GooseWorks MCP tool in terminal-free clients, the GooseWorks CLI in a local terminal, or the direct API with the user's own key. Never assume a shell is available.
Scrape public Instagram data including profiles, posts, and reels.
When to Use
- User asks about Instagram content
- User wants to see posts from an account
- Social media research
How It Works
Uses the ScrapeCreators API through its direct GooseWorks proxy.
Usage
Get User Profile & Posts
provider: scrapecreators
method: GET
path: /v1/instagram/profile
query:
handle: openaiGet Individual Post/Reel
provider: scrapecreators
method: GET
path: /v1/instagram/post
query:
url: https://instagram.com/p/abc123Get Basic Profile by User ID
provider: scrapecreators
method: GET
path: /v1/instagram/basic-profile
query:
userId: "12345"Parameters
Profile
- handle (required) - Instagram handle (without @)
- trim (optional) - Set to "true" for a trimmed response
Post/Reel
- url (required) - Instagram post or reel URL
- trim (optional) - Set to "true" for a trimmed response
Basic Profile
- userId (optional) - Instagram user ID
Response
Profile includes:
- Username, display name, bio
- Follower/following counts
- Recent posts with captions, URLs, engagement metrics
- Profile image
Post includes:
- Post caption
- Image/video URLs
- Like count
- Comment count
- Timestamp
Examples
User: "What's OpenAI posting on Instagram?"
Use the Get User Profile & Posts operation with handle: openai.
User: "Get details on this Instagram post" Use the Get Individual Post/Reel operation with the supplied post URL.
Error Handling
- success: false — the API may temporarily fail; retry after a few seconds
- Private accounts cannot be accessed — no workaround
- Rate limiting may cause failures on rapid requests — add delays between calls
Tips
- Private accounts cannot be accessed
- Remove @ from handles
- API may return errors for rate limiting - retry after a few seconds
What's included
Video Production Harness
Full video production sequence with script review, actual ingredient choices, controlled generation, editing, evidence-based quality review, polish, captions and delivery. A host binding supplies project storage, authentic approvals, provider access and billing.
Render Street Interview
Build a vox-pop street interview video ad. An interviewer with a handheld mic asks passers-by one question about the brand's product, they give blunt wrong guesses, one gives the real answer, and the cut lands on a branded end card. Generates the takes through the GooseWorks fal proxy (Seedance 2.0 with native voice), then grades, re-cuts, captions and gates them locally. Use for the street-interview format.
Write Video Ad Script
Write the words of a short-form video ad (voiceover, dialogue, chat bubbles, on-screen lines) the way performance creative teams do instead of from a blank page. Builds the script from the buyers' own words, the beat sheet of an ad that already works and three deliberately different angles, filters them with a rule check and a second non-Claude model, and takes the strongest into the review with the other two as one-line swaps. Use it in every video ad run before any paid step, and whenever the user asks to write, rewrite or improve a video ad script or says a script sounds generic or AI-written.