The Instagram reels your agent needs.
Instagram Reels returns the reels of a profile, each with views, likes and comments, a page at a time.
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Instagram Reels APIfor AI agents
One API call to list an Instagram profile's reels. Get play counts and likes as JSON.
What people use it for.
Find a creator's best reels
Sort a creator's reels by views. The first ones show which ideas reached the most people.
Compare reel quality
Divide likes by views for each reel. The ratio shows which reels viewers liked, not only watched.
Study how reels open
Pass the postCode of each top reel to instagram.transcript. Read the first lines to learn how the creator opens a video.
More Instagram endpoints.
- CommentsGet a post's comments, or the replies to one comment
- PostGet a post or reel, with its top comments
- ProfileGet a profile's bio, stats and a page of its posts and reels
- 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 username. You need no Instagram account.
A results list and a cursor. Each reel has postId, postCode, postUrl, views, likes, comments, imageUrl, isPinned, authorId and authorUsername.
instagram.profile returns the profile and its grid, which mixes posts and reels. This endpoint returns the reels tab only, with a play count in views.
No. A reel in this list has its counts and its link. Call instagram.post with the postCode to get the caption, the hashtags and the video link.
Send the cursor from the last response, with the same username. Each page continues the reels tab.
1 credit for each call that returns data. A call that returns an error or an empty list 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 instagramProfileReels.
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