# Instagram Reels Scraper - Plays, Views & Analytics

A social media tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/scrapesage/instagram-reels-scraper

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `usernames` (array): Instagram usernames
- `reelUrls` (array): Reel URLs or shortcodes
- `includeReelDetails` (boolean): Include Reel details (view count, duration, video URL, audio)
- `postedAfter` (string): Posted after
- `postedBefore` (string): Posted before
- `minPlays` (integer): Minimum plays

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=Instagram%20Reels%20Scraper%20-%20Plays%2C%20Views%20%26%20Analytics with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "Instagram Reels Scraper - Plays, Views & Analytics"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md