The Instagram posts your agent needs.
Instagram Post returns one post or reel with its caption, likes, views, media links, author and top comments.
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Instagram Post APIfor AI agents
One API call to get an Instagram post or reel. Get the caption, stats and media as JSON.
What people use it for.
Report on a sponsored post
Send the postUrl of a sponsored post. Read likes, views and comments to report what the post achieved.
Find the sound of a reel
Read audioTitle and audioArtist on a reel that performs well. They name the sound that the reel uses.
Study a caption
Read text, hashtags and mentions on a competitor's best posts. Give them to a model that drafts your next caption.
More Instagram endpoints.
- CommentsGet a post's comments, or the replies to one comment
- ProfileGet a profile's bio, stats and a page of its posts and reels
- ReelsA profile's reels, with play counts
- SearchSearch Instagram posts and reels
- TranscriptGet what an Instagram video says, from its audio
- All Instagram endpointsOne API for Instagram data. Get profiles, posts, reels, comments and transcripts as JSON.
Ways to call it.
- Use the APISend a POST request with a Bearer key. Every endpoint returns success, data, creditsUsed and requestId.
- Use MCPAdd https://api.stophy.dev/mcp to Claude, Cursor or Codex. The agent finds an endpoint and calls it.
- Use the SDKInstall the TypeScript or Python client. Call an endpoint by its id, such as youtube.transcript.
- Use the CLICall an endpoint from the terminal. The CLI prints JSON, so you can pipe the result into a script.
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Questions and answers.
No. You call Stophy with a Stophy API key and a post link. You need no Instagram account.
One post or reel. It has postCode, type, text, hashtags, mentions, publishedAt, likes, views, comments, imageUrls, videoUrls, authorUsername, taggedUsers, coauthors, audioTitle and audioArtist. results holds its top comments.
Send postUrl, which is the link to the post or the reel. Or send postCode, which is the code in that link, such as DdG4RIxIPyf.
The top comments only, in results. To page through every comment, call instagram.comments with the same post.
In this response the replies count of a comment can be unknown, and then it is null. Call instagram.comments with that comment's id to get the count and the replies.
1 credit for each call that returns data. A call that returns an error uses 0 credits.
Yes. Add the MCP server at https://api.stophy.dev/mcp to Claude, Cursor or Codex. The agent calls the endpoint by the id instagramPost.
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