The Instagram posts your agent needs.
Instagram Search returns posts and reels for a keyword, each with caption, author and view count. Choose the type and read a page at a time.
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Instagram Search APIfor AI agents
One API call to search Instagram. Get posts and reels with captions as JSON.
What people use it for.
Find creators by topic
Search your product type and count the results by authorUsername. The accounts that appear most post about it most.
Find brand mentions
Search your brand name and read text on each result. Each one is a post that mentions you.
Collect hashtags for a topic
Set type to reels and read hashtags across the results. The tags that repeat are the ones the topic uses.
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
- ReelsA profile's reels, with play counts
- 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. You need no Instagram account.
A results list and a cursor. Each result has postCode, postUrl, type, text, hashtags, mentions, views, thumbnailUrl, videoUrls, authorUsername, authorUrl and authorIsVerified.
No. A search result is the card that Instagram shows: caption, author and view count. Call instagram.post with the postCode to get likes, comments and media.
type takes all or reels. The default is all, which returns posts and reels.
Send the cursor from the last response. Keep the same query, and the same type when you search reels only.
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 instagramSearch.
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