Scrape Creators API / Post/Reel Info

ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-instagram-post on looot: input fields, $0.00188 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Fetches detailed metadata for a single Instagram post or reel by shortcode or URL. Returns caption text, like count, comment count, video URL, video play count, video duration, display images, owner info, tagged users, carousel sidecar children when applicable, and the published time in data.xdt_shortcode_media.created_at as an ISO 8601 UTC date. The original Unix timestamp remains available in data.xdt_shortcode_media.taken_at_timestamp. Play counts are Instagram-only views and exclude cross-posted Facebook views. Set include_play_count=false to omit the play count and skip its additional fetch for a faster response.

• Tool id: scrapecreators-instagram-post
• Provider: ScrapeCreators
• Job: Get an Instagram post and its metrics (instagram.post.get)
• Price: $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Output

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

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

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:instagram.post.get as endpointId; see the job page.