# Instagram Posts Scraper Lowcost A social media tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/sones/instagram-posts-scraper-lowcost ## 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, required): Instagram Usernames or Profile URLs - `postsPerProfile` (integer): Posts per profile (e.g. 24) - `newerThan` (string): Newer than - `delayBetweenProfiles` (integer): Delay between profile starts (ms) (e.g. 250) - `delayBetweenRequests` (integer): Delay between pagination requests (ms) (e.g. 500) - `maxRetries` (integer): Max retry attempts (e.g. 3) 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%20Posts%20Scraper%20Lowcost with Authorization: Bearer . Take the result named "Instagram Posts Scraper Lowcost"; 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