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Instagram API
Public profiles, posts, reels and comments with media and engagement counts, plus reel search, similar accounts and reel transcripts.
Overview
Follow public brands and creators on Instagram. Read a profile's bio and counts, page through its posts and reels, and open any post for its caption, media and comments. Search reels by keyword, find similar accounts and turn what's said in a reel into text. You get what a logged-out visitor sees: counts Instagram hides stay null, and private posts aren't available. Media links expire after a while.
Source: instagram.com.
Endpoints
Call it
Each endpoint is a web address. Request it with GET, put your API key in the x-api-key header, and you get JSON back. For example, Profile:
curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/instagram/profile?username=nike" \-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Use it in Claude
Connect LurkAPI to Claude and ask in plain English. Each endpoint is a tool Claude can call:
| Tool | Endpoint |
|---|---|
instagram_profile | Profile |
instagram_user_posts | User posts |
instagram_post | Post |
instagram_post_comments | Post comments |
instagram_user_reels | User reels |
instagram_media_transcript | Media transcript |
instagram_reels_search | Search reels |
instagram_similar_profiles | Similar profiles |
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