Scrape Creators API / Search Hashtag Posts

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

Use this when you know the exact hashtag and want Google-indexed public Instagram posts or reels, optional date filters, and pagination. It returns post details such as caption, engagement, owner, and post time. Results are best-effort and not a complete Instagram-native hashtag feed. For an Instagram-curated topic page with generated context and suggested terms, use /v1/instagram/search/popular. Pass media_type=reels to only return reels. Cursors are limited to pages 1 through 11; cursor 12 or greater returns a 400 response.

• Tool id: scrapecreators-instagram-search-hashtag
• Provider: ScrapeCreators
• Job: Find Instagram hashtags and their volume (instagram.hashtag.search)
• Price: $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Output

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

{ posts: { id, url, caption, has_audio, shortcode, video_url, __typename, display_url, product_type, thumbnail_src, video_duration, video_play_count, video_view_count, accessibility_caption, clips_music_attribution_info: { audio_id, song_name, artist_name, should_mute_audio, uses_original_audio, should_mute_audio_reason } }[], cursor, hashtag, success, media_type, credits_charged, credits_remaining }

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-hashtag","input":{"hashtag":"<hashtag>"},"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-hashtag",
    input: {
      hashtag: "<hashtag>",
    },
    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-hashtag",
        "input": {
            "hashtag": "<hashtag>",
        },
        "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.hashtag.search as endpointId; see the job page.