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"It was very easy to set up and get going, and support was superb."
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"Quick, caring and efficient support!"
Thomas Puech, Designer
"Easy to connect - work's smooth and properly!"
Robert Podsiadlo, Founder at PrimeStuff
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// Pull the latest 12 reels from a public Instagram profile
const url = "https://api.socialkit.dev/instagram/channel-reels"
+ "?url=https://www.instagram.com/nasa"
+ "&limit=12"
+ "&access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY";
const response = await fetch(url);
const { data } = await response.json();
// data.items[] => [{ shortcode, views, likes, comments, duration, ... }]
data.items.forEach(reel => {
console.log(`${reel.views} views — ${reel.url}`);
});
// Paginate: pass data.cursor back as a query param next call.Read any public Instagram account's reels feed at scale — for short-form video research, influencer vetting, and trend discovery.
See how teams are using this API in production
Pull the entire reels history of an account, calculate median and top-decile views, and benchmark creators against their niche peers.
A talent agency benchmarks 50 creators' median reel views per month, ranking them by reach efficiency to set rate cards.
Extract captions and openings from top-performing reels in your niche. Build a swipe file of proven hooks for your own content.
A content team scrapes the top 20 reels from 30 cooking creators monthly, classifying captions by hook type to inform their own scripts.
Track affiliate creators' reels output. Detect when they post promotional reels for your brand or competitors.
A DTC brand monitors its 100 affiliates daily, surfacing reels mentioning the brand into a Slack channel for the social team.
Find rising creators by tracking which accounts publish 5+ reels per week with high views — early signal for breakout creators.
An influencer platform discovers fast-growing creators by scanning the reels of 10,000 accounts weekly, alerting on view-velocity spikes.
Integrate with your existing tools and platforms
Build a searchable library of top reels by niche updated daily.
Monitor affiliate creators' reels and surface brand mentions automatically.
Sort reels by view-velocity and alert on viral content in real time.
An Instagram Channel Reels API is a REST endpoint that returns every reel from a public Instagram profile as structured JSON. You pass a profile URL, the API returns a paginated list of reels with shortcodes, captions, view counts, like and comment counts, durations, thumbnails, and direct video URLs.
Unlike a generic posts endpoint, this one filters to reels only — so you don't have to scan through static posts and carousels to find short-form video. Every item is a reel with a video URL, view count, and duration. That makes it the right tool when you specifically care about Instagram's short-form ecosystem.
Instagram's algorithm treats reels differently from feed posts. Reach, view counts, and audience retention all behave on different curves. If you're an influencer marketer, agency, or content team focused on short-form video, you don't want a generic posts endpoint that returns a mix of images, carousels, and the occasional reel — you want the full reels history per profile, in reels-watching order.
The Channel Reels API gives you exactly that. Every result has a view count and a video URL. Sorting reels by view count gives you the creator's top hits in seconds. Pagination cursors let you walk back through years of content reliably.
Want to test it without writing code? Use the free Instagram channel reels extractor to pull a sample feed and inspect the response format.
Each reel in the response includes a videoUrl field with a direct link to the MP4 stream. These URLs are signed by Instagram's CDN and expire after several hours — fetch them fresh when you need to download. For thumbnail-only use cases, the thumbnailUrl works equivalently and follows the same expiry behavior.
If you need to persist video files for offline analysis or training data, fetch the URL and stream the bytes to your own storage immediately after the API call. Don't store the signed URL itself — by the time you re-use it, it will likely return a 403.
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