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title: "Get Instagram post by URL"
description: "TikHub tool tikhub-api-instagram-fetch-post-by-url on looot: input fields, $0.002 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Returns Instagram single post details by URL. Send `post_url`. Returns post details object with media, likes, comments etc.

- **Tool id:** `tikhub-api-instagram-fetch-post-by-url`
- **Provider:** [TikHub](/providers/tikhub)
- **Job:** [Fetch post by url api instagram](/reference/jobs/api-instagram-fetch-post-by-url) (`api.instagram.fetch-post-by-url`)
- **Price:** $0.002 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `post_url` | string | yes | Post URL |

## Output

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

```txt
{ code, data: { id, status, shortcode, __typename, dimensions: { width, height }, display_url, gating_info, media_preview, display_resources: unknown[], media_overlay_info, accessibility_caption, sharing_friction_info: { bloks_app_url, should_have_sharing_friction }, fact_check_information, fact_check_overall_rating, sensitivity_friction_info }, docs, time, params: { post_url }, router, message, support, cache_url, time_zone, message_zh, request_id, time_stamp, cache_message, cache_message_zh }
```

## 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":"tikhub-api-instagram-fetch-post-by-url","input":{"post_url":"https://example.com"},"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: "tikhub-api-instagram-fetch-post-by-url",
    input: {
      post_url: "https://example.com",
    },
    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": "tikhub-api-instagram-fetch-post-by-url",
        "input": {
            "post_url": "https://example.com",
        },
        "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:api.instagram.fetch-post-by-url` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/api-instagram-fetch-post-by-url).