Instagram User Posts

Instagram User Posts is used to fetch post lists from Instagram user pages.

Fetch user posts by profile URL
Support page-based post pagination
Return post titles, media URLs, and attached content
Suitable for content archiving and custom social data collection

Use XCrawl to Fetch Instagram User Posts

Usage

curl -s -X POST 'https://run.xcrawl.com/v1/data' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $XCRAWL_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "engine": "instagram_user_posts",
    "location": "US",
    "url_list": ["https://www.instagram.com/nba/"],
    "page": 1
  }'

Request parameter notes:

engine must be instagram_user_posts
location specifies the target region
url_list accepts one or more Instagram profile URLs
page specifies which post page to fetch

Response Example

{
  "result": [
    {
      "content": {
        "result": [
          {
            "title": "DIY hack by 123 go!",
            "url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/...",
            "note": "funnyhacks ..."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Parameters

Required Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`location`	`string`	Specifies the target region.
`url_list`	`array`	Accepts one or more Instagram profile URLs.
`page`	`number`	Specifies which post page to fetch.

Parameter Notes

location defaults to US
page defaults to 1
URLs in url_list should be full profile URLs

Response Fields

Response data is returned under result[].content.result[].

Field	Type	Description
`title`	`string`	Post title or leading caption text.
`url`	`string`	Main media URL or cover image URL.
`note`	`string`	Attached post content, often including caption text and media details.

Note: media-related values are often merged into note, which is suitable for raw content archiving or downstream parsing.

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