Scrape Creators API / Popular Search

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

Use this to explore an Instagram topic and the posts Instagram curates for it. It scrapes the public /popular/{query} page without requiring an Instagram login. The first page returns the topic title, numeric total media count, Instagram’s generated description and sources, suggested terms, posts, and an opaque cursor. Pass that cursor with the same query to fetch more posts. Later pages return query, posts, cursor, and has_more only. For an exact hashtag through Google-indexed results, use /v1/instagram/search/hashtag. For reels only, use /v2/instagram/reels/search. Each successful request costs 1 credit.

Tool id: scrapecreators-instagram-search-popular
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
`cursor`	string	no
`query`	string	yes	Example: “basketball”

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect scrapecreators-instagram-search-popular 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-popular","input":{"query":"basketball","cursor":"<cursor>"},"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-popular",
    input: {
      query: "basketball",
      cursor: "<cursor>",
    },
    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-popular",
        "input": {
            "query": "basketball",
            "cursor": "<cursor>",
        },
        "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.