Scrape Creators API / Search Instagram

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

Use this for Instagram-native account, hashtag, or place lookup. It returns ranked users, hashtags, places, and keyword suggestions from Instagram itself. It is not Google-indexed, does not require an Instagram login, returns one page only, and does not return posts. For an Instagram-curated topic page with posts, use /v1/instagram/search/popular. For broader profile discovery from Google-indexed bios and captions, use /v1/instagram/search/profiles.

Tool id: scrapecreators-instagram-search
Provider: ScrapeCreators
Job: Search Instagram for a keyword (instagram.search.top)
Price: $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	yes

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect scrapecreators-instagram-search 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-search","input":{"query":"<query>"},"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-search",
    input: {
      query: "<query>",
    },
    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-search",
        "input": {
            "query": "<query>",
        },
        "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.search.top as endpointId; see the job page.