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title: "Bright Data / Get an Instagram post"
description: "Bright Data tool brightdata-instagram-post on looot: input fields, $0.0015 per result, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Returns an Instagram post from its URL (instagram.com/p/\{shortcode\}) with Bright Data's scraper. Send input, a list of objects with url; a job run takes url instead. Returns one record per URL: caption, media, author, date, likes and comment count. Slow targets can take a few minutes.

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

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `input` | array | yes | Records to collect, one object per URL |
| `format` | string | no | Always json |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, the expected shape, not yet checked against real answers:

```txt
{ snapshot_id } | [ { pk, url, audio, input, likes, images, videos, post_id, alt_text, audio_url, followers, shortcode, thumbnail, timestamp, content_id, date_posted, description, is_verified, posts_count, profile_url, user_posted, content_type, num_comments, post_content, product_type, tagged_users, photos_number, user_posted_id, latest_comments, thumbnail_array } ]
```

## 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":"brightdata-instagram-post","input":{"input":[]},"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: "brightdata-instagram-post",
    input: {
      input: [],
    },
    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": "brightdata-instagram-post",
        "input": {
            "input": [],
        },
        "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).