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title: "Scrape Creators API / Basic Profile"
description: "ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-instagram-basic-profile on looot: input fields, $0.00188 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Fetches a lightweight Instagram profile summary by user ID, returning username, full name, biography, profile picture URL, verification status, follower count, following count, media count, and account privacy and type. Ideal for quick lookups or enrichment when you already have the numeric user ID.

- **Tool id:** `scrapecreators-instagram-basic-profile`
- **Provider:** [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators)
- **Job:** [Get an Instagram profile and its stats](/reference/jobs/instagram-user-profile) (`instagram.user.profile`)
- **Price:** $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `cache_max_age` | string | no | Example: "7d" |
| `userId` | string | no |   |

## Output

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

```txt
{ pk, zip, gating, fbid_v2, success, username, bio_links: unknown[], biography, city_name, full_name, is_private, is_business, is_verified, account_type, address_street, follower_count, is_unpublished, linked_fb_info, credits_charged, has_profile_pic, is_memorialized, profile_pic_url, is_regulated_c18, supervision_info, credits_remaining, friendship_status, has_story_archive, is_coppa_enforced, latest_reel_media, live_broadcast_id, mutual_followers_count, hd_profile_pic_url_info: { url }, show_text_post_app_badge, live_broadcast_visibility, text_post_app_badge_label, profile_pic_genai_tool_inf... ...
```

The shape is cut here. Signed in, `looot inspect scrapecreators-instagram-basic-profile` prints all of it.

## 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:

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```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":"scrapecreators-instagram-basic-profile","input":{"userId":"<userId>","cache_max_age":"7d"},"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: "scrapecreators-instagram-basic-profile",
    input: {
      userId: "<userId>",
      cache_max_age: "7d",
    },
    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": "scrapecreators-instagram-basic-profile",
        "input": {
            "userId": "<userId>",
            "cache_max_age": "7d",
        },
        "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.user.profile` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/instagram-user-profile).