Scrape Creators API / Profile Post Count

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

Returns the total post count shown on a public Instagram profile. Use this endpoint when Profile returns media_count as null or edge_owner_to_timeline_media.count contains only the current batch size. This endpoint makes a separate Instagram profile-page request so it does not add latency to the main Profile endpoint. Instagram does not expose this metadata for every profile; unavailable counts return an error without deducting a credit.

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

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`handle`	string	yes

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect scrapecreators-instagram-profile-post-count 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-profile-post-count","input":{"handle":"<handle>"},"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-profile-post-count",
    input: {
      handle: "<handle>",
    },
    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-profile-post-count",
        "input": {
            "handle": "<handle>",
        },
        "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.user.profile as endpointId; see the job page.