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Instagram Reel analytics API. Extract views, likes, comments from any public post.
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"It was very easy to set up and get going, and support was superb."
Ziv Erlichson, Founder at Plynn
"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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// Search Instagram reels by keyword
const url = "https://api.socialkit.dev/instagram/reels-search"
+ "?query=cats"
+ "&page=1"
+ "&access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY";
const response = await fetch(url);
const { data } = await response.json();
// data.items[] => [{ shortcode, views, caption, author, thumbnailUrl, ... }]
data.items.forEach(reel => {
console.log(`${reel.views.toLocaleString()} views — ${reel.url}`);
console.log(` by @${reel.author.username}: ${reel.caption.slice(0, 80)}`);
});
// Hashtags work too — pass "#dogs" or "%23dogs"
// Pagination: pass page=2 to get the second 12 reels (max 2 pages)Specialized capabilities designed specifically for developers workflows and use cases.
Step-by-step workflow to get started
Set up API authentication with access_key parameter
Make GET/POST requests to extract social media data
Parse JSON responses in your application
Implement error handling and retries
Deploy to production with confidence
We solve real problems faced by teams every day
Pull Instagram Reel metrics programmatically without login or scraping. Our API provides consistent data access regardless of Instagram's UI changes.
See how teams are using this API in production
Integrate social media data extraction into your product without building and maintaining scrapers. Add video analysis as a product feature.
A video analytics SaaS uses the API to power their transcript extraction feature, serving 1000+ customers without managing scraping infrastructure.
Build automated pipelines that extract, process, and store social media data at scale. Perfect for ETL workflows and data warehousing.
A data engineering team pipes YouTube data into their data warehouse nightly, processing 10,000+ videos for business intelligence dashboards.
Extract transcripts and metadata to build training datasets for machine learning models, NLP projects, and AI applications.
ML researchers extract transcripts from educational videos to train AI models that automatically generate quiz questions from video content.
Use as a reliable data source for your API that serves mobile apps, web applications, or other services needing social media data.
A mobile app for content creators uses the API to fetch video stats and display analytics to 50,000+ users in real-time.
Integrate with your existing tools and platforms
Extract data, process with AI, and publish to multiple platforms automatically.
Pull data into databases or spreadsheets for analysis and reporting.
Track metrics in real-time and get instant alerts for changes.
An Instagram Reels Search API is a REST endpoint that searches Instagram for reels matching a keyword or hashtag and returns them as structured JSON. You pass a query, the API returns up to 24 reels with shortcodes, captions, view counts, thumbnails, and author details.
SocialKit's Reels Search API works without any Instagram account, cookies, or proxy setup. It hits Instagram's public popular-search render through an automated browser session, parses the inline JSON Instagram ships in the SSR, and returns it as clean JSON to your code.
Manual reel discovery doesn't scale. Content teams, agencies, and analytics platforms need to monitor dozens of keywords across niches to spot trends, surface creators, and inform content strategy. Browsing Instagram by hand and screenshotting top reels is a non-starter for any team operating at scale.
The Reels Search API replaces that with a single REST call per keyword. Pass cats, get the top 12 cat reels right now. Pass #cooking, get the top 12 cooking reels. Pipe the results into Make, Zapier, Airtable, or your own backend and build trend dashboards, creator databases, or alert systems on top.
Want to test it manually first? Use the free Instagram reels search tool to run a search in your browser and inspect the response shape.
Each call returns up to 12 reels. Pass page=2 to get the next 12. Instagram caps anonymous popular-search results at ~24 reels per query, so page is bounded to 2.
If you need more depth per query, the workaround is to search related keywords. The popular-search page itself surfaces 30 related-keyword suggestions per query — those are good leads for adjacent searches that will return another 24 reels each.
Results are cached for 30 minutes per query — a cold call takes ~10–15s while we render the page; subsequent calls return in under 2s.
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