Instagram post search

Run job:search.instagram-post through the looot API: 1 provider, from $0.004 per call. Inputs, prices, output shape and code for curl, JavaScript and Python.

Instagram post search.

Job id search.instagram-post, in Search & SERP (Search engines). As of 2026-10-01, 1 provider serve it through 1 tool. Run job:search.instagram-post and looot picks one of them; with fallback on, a miss moves on to the next. See Jobs.

Inputs

This job has one tool, so it takes that tool’s fields. Any key you send passes through unchanged.

Providers and prices

A call that fails at the provider costs $0. See What’s free.

Output

Shape of the run’s result, checked against 2 real answers:

{ post: { id, link, type, user: { id, name, avatar, username }, likes, width, height, topics: { id, name }[], caption, comments, iso_date, media_id, permalink, thumbnail, carousel_items: { id, link, type, width, height, duration, media_id, position, permalink, thumbnail, image_versions: { ... }[], video_versions: { ... }[], accessibility_caption }[], image_versions: { url }[], preview_comments: { id, text, user: { ... }, likes, iso_date, position }[], accessibility_caption }, search_metadata: { id, status, html_url, json_url, created_at, request_url, total_time_taken, parsing_time_taken, reque... ...

The shape is cut here. Signed in, looot inspect searchapi-io-instagram-post prints all of it.

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"job:search.instagram-post","input":{"post_id":"<post_id>","engine":"instagram_post"},"wait":30}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "job:search.instagram-post",
    input: {
      post_id: "<post_id>",
      engine: "instagram_post",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "job:search.instagram-post",
        "input": {
            "post_id": "<post_id>",
            "engine": "instagram_post",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To pin one provider, send its tool id as endpointId instead of job:search.instagram-post.