§ 01
Lead generation
Pull Instagram signals at scale and enrich your CRM with public profile data — clean, structured, ready to import.
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
§ 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://api.hproxy.com/v1/scrape/instagram/basic/profile/by/id \
-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.
§ 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.
Instagram Profile
/v1/scrape/instagram/profile/collect/by/handle
Collect a public Instagram profile by username — bio, followers, posts, links.
$0.0030
per call
Instagram Post
/v1/scrape/instagram/post/collect/by/url
Fetch a single Instagram post or reel by URL with full metadata.
$0.0330
per call
Instagram User Posts
/v1/scrape/instagram/user/posts/collect/by/handle
Paginated feed of a user's public Instagram posts.
$0.0030
per call
Instagram User Reels
/v1/scrape/instagram/user/reels/collect/by/handle
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.