Instagram Profile Scraper API

Instagram Scraper API lets you gather public data of an account from Instagram as structured JSON via our solid infrastructure. It is extremely easy to use and integrate into your own solution.

API Access Key & Authentication

After signing up for an account, each user will be assigned a unique API Access Key. This key will be used to authenticate with the API via REST and access any of the available endpoints.

If you are a current user of AvesAPI, obtain the API Key from your account page to access our API. If you are not a member of AvesAPI you can create your account to benefit from our service.

To authenticate with the API, simply append your API key to the API's base URL using the apikey parameter shown below.

https://api.avesapi.com/instagram/view-profile?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

Common API Error Codes

The response will be returned as 400 Status code except missing or invalid apikey If there is a problem with your request.

Code	Type	Message
401	missing_apikey	You must provide a valid apikey
401	invalid_apikey	You must provide a valid apikey
400	missing_username	You must provide a username
400	insufficient_balance	Please reload your balance to keep using our service
400	restricted_profile	Age restriction profile
400	not_found	This user does not exist
400	system_error	Please try again later

Cost

If the request returns as success or with status code 400 containing types such as (restricted_profile, not_found) then your balance will be deducted. Otherwise your balance will not be deducted.

API Endpoints

To query the API for Google search results, simply append the query parameter to the API's base URL and set it to a search query of your choice.

Example request:

https://api.avesapi.com/instagram/view-profile?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY&username=nike

Response and Definitions

Your API response strongly depends on your search query and the parameters you choose to make use of. Find below a representative example API response, returned for the query nike and containing some of Google's key response objects. Each available response object will be explained further below in this section.

Response and Object

Object	Type	Description
success	Boolean	Returns true if request is responded as successful
total_time_taken	Int	Returns as milliseconds of how long does a request take
data > biography	String	Biography section of a profile on instagram
data > external_url	String	Shows the URL of a profile if present
data > edge_followed_by > count	Int	Shows follower count of an instagram account
data > edge_follow > count	Int	Shows following count of an instagram account
data > full_name	String	Shows the full name of account
data > is_business_account	Boolean	Returns true if scraped account is a business account
data > is_professional_account	Boolean	Returns true if scraped account is a professional account
data > business_category_name	String	Shows the business category name of the scraped account if account is a business account
data > category_enum	String	Shows the category name as key of the scraped account
data > category_name	String	Shows the category name of the scraped account
data > is_private	Boolean	Returns true if the profile is public profile
data > is_verified	Boolean	Returns true if account is verified by Instagram
data > profile_pic_url	String	Returns the URL of instagram profile picture
data > profile_pic_url_hd	String	Returns the URL of instagram profile picture as HD