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title: "AnyAPI / Instagram Post"
description: "AnyAPI tool anyapi-run-instagram-post on looot: input fields, $0.0015 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Fetch a single Instagram post or reel by URL (media URLs, like count, owner, type) as normalized JSON. Turn on hostVideo to also get the post's video on a hosted MP4 link that plays without an Instagram session, charged as an extra on top of the price. If you want the spoken words as well, instagram.reel_transcript transcribes the same reel. **Price:** \$0.50 per 1,000 requests (flat per request - same cost regardless of results returned). **Routing:** 5 independent lanes are available in execution order. A failed attempt uses the next lane only when the request's payment authorizes that lane's price; the normalized schema stays the same. **Catalog:** [Instagram Post pricing and uptime](https://getanyapi.com/api/instagram/post) - live USD price, lane routing, and measured 30-day uptime. [Every Instagram endpoint](https://getanyapi.com/api/instagram).

- **Tool id:** `anyapi-run-instagram-post`
- **Provider:** AnyAPI
- **Job:** [Get an Instagram post and its metrics](/reference/jobs/instagram-post-get) (`instagram.post.get`)
- **Price:** $0.0015 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `hostVideo` | boolean | no | Set true to also get the post's video on a hosted MP4 link that plays without an Instagram session. The file is downloaded and stored for you, and the response adds `hostedUrl`, `expiresUtc` and `bytes`. It is charged as an extra on top of the price, and it never changes which source serves you: every source offers it at the same price. A post with no video, or a post that does not exist, is refused with no charge rather than billed for a file that cannot exist. Omit it and nothing is downloa... |
| `requirePlayCount` | boolean | no | Deprecated; send `requireFields: ["plays"]` instead, which does exactly the same thing. Set true to be served only by a source that reports a reel's play count. Omit it and routing is unchanged, with the cheapest source serving, which does not carry play counts, so `plays` is absent from its responses. This can raise your price: opting in routes to a source that reports the count, and you are quoted and charged its price. It stays accepted so callers that already send it keep working. |
| `url` | string | yes | Full Instagram post or reel URL, carrying the media shortcode: /p/, /reel/, /reels/, or /tv/. A profile URL such as https://www.instagram.com/username names no post, so it is rejected instead of charged for an empty result - send that account's handle to instagram.profile, or its posts to instagram.user_posts. |

## Output

The run's `result` holds the provider's answer. Signed in, `looot inspect anyapi-run-instagram-post` prints its fields.

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) 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:

<CodeGroup>

```bash curl
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":"anyapi-run-instagram-post","input":{"url":"https://example.com"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
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: "anyapi-run-instagram-post",
    input: {
      url: "https://example.com",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
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": "anyapi-run-instagram-post",
        "input": {
            "url": "https://example.com",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:instagram.post.get` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/instagram-post-get).