# Instagram Post Scraper: Photos, Carousels, Likes, No Login

A social media tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/themineworks/instagram-post-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 profiles (e.g. ["natgeo","nasa"])
- `postUrls` (array): Post links
- `maxPostsPerProfile` (integer): Max posts per profile (e.g. 12)
- `postTypes` (array): Post types (e.g. ["image","carousel"])
- `newerThan` (string): Only posts newer than
- `skipPinned` (boolean): Skip pinned posts

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%20Post%20Scraper%3A%20Photos%2C%20Carousels%2C%20Likes%2C%20No%20Login with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "Instagram Post Scraper: Photos, Carousels, Likes, No Login"; 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