Instagram/Basic Profile
Instagram

Instagram Basic Profile Scraper API

Lightweight lookup when you already have an Instagram numeric id and need username/name/followers fast.

From $0.0030 per call·Median under 2s·One charge per call
Try it in the dashboardStart free
One call

Send a id.
Get back JSON.

This endpoint takes one input: userId. The response carries the parsed Instagram entity. Every public field, in a flat, predictable shape.

Request
cURL
curl https://hproxy.com/v1/scrape/instagram/basic-profile \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HPROXY_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"userId":"314216"}'
POST // 1 call · $0.0030 · <2s
What you get

Structured data,
not a scraping project.

Lightweight profile lookup by Instagram numeric user id.

Live JSON, returned in seconds
No login flows, no captcha solving
Pay-as-you-go, priced in dollars
Same API key across every scraper
Idempotent retries via X-Request-Id
REST. Works from any language
Built for

The work that
needs this data.

01

Lead generation

Pull Instagram signals at scale and enrich your CRM with public profile data. Clean, structured, ready to import.

02

Market research

Track competitors, audience movements, and trends across Instagram without standing up any scraping infrastructure.

03

AI training data

Feed predictable Instagram JSON straight into your model fine-tuning pipeline. Same schema every call.

More Instagram

The rest of the
Instagram hub.

See all 11 endpoints

Instagram Profile

/v1/scrape/instagram/profile

Collect a public Instagram profile by username — bio, followers, posts, links.

$0.0030
per call

Instagram Post

/v1/scrape/instagram/post

Fetch a single Instagram post or reel by URL with full metadata.

$0.0330
per call

Instagram User Posts

/v1/scrape/instagram/posts

Paginated feed of a user's public Instagram posts.

$0.0030
per call

Instagram User Reels

/v1/scrape/instagram/reels

Paginated reels feed for a public Instagram user.

$0.0030
per call
Try it

Two dollars,
first run.

Sign in with Google, drop $2 in the wallet, fire your first Basic Profile call against instagram.com. If it doesn’t do what you need, the balance is refundable for 24 hours.

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