instagram-search
What Instagram's search box shows for a query, one row per hit: kind (user, hashtag, place), name (username, #tag or place name), title (full name, the hashtag's post count text, or the place's address), followers (Instagram's rounded count for a user), media_count (exact, for a hashtag), is_verified, url. kind is users, hashtags, places or all (all = Instagram's blended list: users for a word, hashtags for a #word). session is required: your sessionid and csrftoken cookies, copied with the Crawl4AI Session extension; used for this run only and never stored. One fetch, 1 unit.
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Fields
7 columns on every row. null means the site does not state it.| field | type | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| kind | string | |
| name | string | |
| title | string | |
| followers | integer | |
| media_count | ||
| is_verified | boolean | |
| url | string |
null means the site does not state it.
How it behaves
Cost. 2 units. A failed run costs 0.
Always live. Every run reads the site again; nothing is served from cache.
Your session. It needs your own logged-in session for the site, copied with the Crawl4AI Session extension. It is used for that run only and not stored.
Questions about this recipeQuestions
Short answers. The API reference has the long ones.
Call POST /recipes/instagram-search with your key and query and kind. You get rows with the 7 fields above. It needs your own session for the site. The recipe is tested against the live site every 6 hours.
2 units. A failed run costs 0.
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The health check runs every 6 hours against the live site. A failing recipe shows as failing on this page until we fix it.
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