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"It was very easy to set up and get going, and support was superb."
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Thomas Puech, Designer
"Easy to connect - work's smooth and properly!"
Robert Podsiadlo, Founder at PrimeStuff
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// Pull the latest 12 posts from a public Instagram profile
const url = "https://api.socialkit.dev/instagram/channel-posts"
+ "?url=https://www.instagram.com/natgeo"
+ "&limit=12"
+ "&access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY";
const response = await fetch(url);
const { data } = await response.json();
// data.items[] => [{ shortcode, type, likes, comments, views, caption, ... }]
console.log(`Fetched ${data.count} posts, hasMore=${data.hasMore}`);
// To paginate, pass data.cursor back as a query param next call.A reliable way to read any public Instagram account's post feed at scale — for influencer marketing, competitive intel, and creator analytics.
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Before partnering with a creator, pull their last 50 posts to verify the follower-to-engagement ratio is healthy. Spot bot inflation before money changes hands.
A DTC brand pulls 100 candidate creators' last 50 posts each, calculates median engagement rate, and filters to the top 20 before paid outreach.
Monitor competitor profiles weekly to detect strategy shifts. Compare post types, hashtag use, and engagement patterns over time.
A SaaS company tracks 15 competitor accounts daily, surfacing posts that crossed 5,000 likes within 24 hours into a Slack channel.
Pull all posts from a successful account, sort by view count, and study the top 1% to inform your own content strategy.
A creator agency analyzes 30 top accounts in the fitness niche, extracting the top 10 reels by view count from each to build a hook library.
Spot-check brand-affiliated accounts before featuring them. Pull recent posts to confirm content alignment and avoid reputational risk.
An ecommerce platform audits affiliate accounts monthly, flagging any that posted off-brand or sensitive content in the last 30 days.
Integrate with your existing tools and platforms
Build a searchable database of creators with engagement scores updated weekly.
Track competitor posts in a live dashboard with alerts on viral content.
Mine top-performing posts from successful accounts to inform your own editorial.
An Instagram Channel Posts API is a REST endpoint that returns every post from a public Instagram profile as structured JSON. You pass a profile URL, the API returns a paginated list of posts with shortcodes, captions, like and comment counts, video view counts, thumbnails, and direct media URLs.
SocialKit's Instagram Channel Posts API handles all media types in a single endpoint — single-image posts, video posts, multi-image carousels, and reels. Each item in the response array has a normalized shape, so you can build influencer dashboards, content audits, and competitor trackers without branching on media type.
Manual Instagram research does not scale. Influencer marketing teams need to vet hundreds of creators, agencies need to monitor dozens of competitor accounts, and analytics tools need fresh data for every dashboard refresh. Loading instagram.com one profile at a time, scrolling, and copying numbers into spreadsheets is a non-starter.
The Instagram Channel Posts API replaces all of that with a single REST call per profile per page. Cursor-based pagination lets you walk an entire account safely — no rate-limit surprises, no anti-bot timeouts, no manual cookie wrangling. The result: a clean, structured feed you can pipe into Make, Zapier, Airtable, BigQuery, or your own backend with one line of code.
Want to see the response format before building? Use the free Instagram channel posts extractor to extract sample posts and inspect the JSON output.
The API returns up to 100 posts per call along with a cursor token. To fetch the next page, pass that cursor back as a query parameter on your next request. The response also includes a hasMore boolean — when it goes false, you've reached the end of the profile's history.
Cursors are opaque tokens — do not parse them or try to construct your own. They contain timing information that lets Instagram's feed return consistent results even as the profile posts new content during your pagination session.
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