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title: "Scrape Creators API / Profile"
description: "ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-instagram-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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Retrieves comprehensive public Instagram profile information including biography, bio links, follower and following counts, verification status, and profile picture URLs. Also returns recent timeline posts with engagement metrics such as likes, comments, and video view counts, plus a list of related profiles. Useful for account overview, audience analysis, or discovering similar creators. Instagram may return media_count as null or return only the current post batch in edge_owner_to_timeline_media.count. Use Profile Post Count when you specifically need the total number of posts.

- **Tool id:** `scrapecreators-instagram-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 | If we have a response in the cache that is this many days old or newer, return the cached response (0 credits, with "cached": true and a "cached_at" timestamp). Otherwise, scrape a live result (1 credit). [See the Caching page for details.](https://docs.scrapecreators.com/caching) |
| `handle` | string | yes | Instagram handle. |
| `trim` | boolean | no | Set to true to get a trimmed response |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 1 real answer:

```txt
{ data: { user: { pk, zip, gating, fbid_v2, category, username, bio_links: { ... }[], biography, city_name, full_name, is_private, is_business, is_verified, account_type, address_street, follower_count, is_unpublished, linked_fb_info, has_profile_pic, is_memorialized, profile_pic_url, is_regulated_c18, supervision_info, friendship_status, has_story_archive, is_coppa_enforced, latest_reel_media, live_broadcast_id, should_show_category, mutual_followers_count, biography_with_entities: { ... }, hd_profile_pic_url_info: { ... }, show_text_post_app_badge, live_broadcast_visibility, text_post_app_ba... ...
```

The shape is cut here. Signed in, `looot inspect scrapecreators-instagram-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:

<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":"scrapecreators-instagram-profile","input":{"handle":"<handle>"},"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-profile",
    input: {
      handle: "<handle>",
    },
    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-profile",
        "input": {
            "handle": "<handle>",
        },
        "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).