LurkAPI

Free Instagram tool

Instagram lookup

Type an Instagram username or paste a profile link to see the account the way instagram.com shows it to everyone: name, photo, bio, links, followers and following, and its latest posts with likes, comments and dates. No Instagram account or login needed, and the posts download as a spreadsheet.

Try

Free, no signup: 5 tries a day

How it works

  1. 1

    Type the username, like nike or @natgeo, or paste their instagram.com profile link.

  2. 2

    Press Look up profile. You never sign in to Instagram.

  3. 3

    Read the profile, open any post on Instagram, or download the posts as a spreadsheet.

FAQ

Questions

How do I look up an Instagram account without an account?

Type the account's username, like nike or @natgeo, or paste its instagram.com profile link, and press Look up profile. You see its name, profile photo, bio, links, follower and following counts, and its latest posts with likes, comments and dates. No Instagram account, login or app needed.

Can I see a private Instagram account?

No. A private account's posts, reels and stories are only for the followers it approves, and no tool can get around that. For a private account you see what Instagram shows everyone: the name, photo, bio, follower and following counts, and a note that its posts are private.

Is it anonymous? Will they know I looked them up?

You never sign in to Instagram, so nothing links the lookup to you, and Instagram doesn't tell anyone who viewed their profile. The photos load from Instagram's servers, just as they do on instagram.com.

Is this Instagram lookup free?

Yes. You get 5 free tries a day without an account. Sign up free for 100 credits, plus a top-up to 25 every day. No card needed. A lookup is two requests: the profile costs 1 credit and its latest posts 1 credit, so without an account it uses two free tries. A private account uses one, because there are no posts to load.

Can I download the profile and posts?

Yes. Download CSV saves one row per post with its link, type, date, caption, likes, comments, views, image link, location and tagged accounts, ready for Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers. Copy profile copies the name, username, counts, bio and links.

How many posts does it show?

The latest 12, in Instagram's order, so pinned posts come first. To go further back, the User posts endpoint pages through all of them, up to 50 at a time.

Why is the number of posts missing?

Instagram leaves the post count out of what it shows logged-out visitors for most accounts, so there's often none to show. Follower and following counts are exact.

Can I look up Instagram accounts with an API?

Yes. It's one request to /v1/instagram/profile with your API key, and /v2/instagram/user/posts for the posts. Both work inside Claude and ChatGPT as an MCP connector, so you can ask for a list of creators' follower counts in one go.

For developers

Need this at scale?

This tool calls the LurkAPI Profile and User posts endpoints. Call them from your own code, a spreadsheet script, or let Claude and ChatGPT call them as a connector.

One request · 1 credit
curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/instagram/profile?username=nike" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

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