Instagram Content discovery API

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API health

24h health
Normal
24h average time
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Last checked
September 26, 2026 at 18:04 (UTC)
  • Healthy / normal
  • Available
  • Limited
  • Mostly down
Health APINormal
How health is measured
  • Health = the share of calls that returned data, in percent. Empty results, failures and unknown outcomes do not count as returning data.
  • Levels: 90% and above is healthy, 70% and above is available, 40% and above is limited; anything lower is mostly down.
  • A period (the last 24 hours, one hour or one day) gets a score only once it has at least 50 calls. Periods with fewer calls show as normal: a few failures among a handful of calls do not mean the API is down.
  • Calls include real customer calls and our own daily probe calls. Request errors (wrong parameters, no balance) are excluded.
  • Average time counts only calls that completed normally: response time for sync calls, acceptance to completion for async ones.
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Use the discover action on Instagram. Accepts these parameters: results_type and keyword. Returns these fields: text, author_name, comment_count, and author_username.

Price $0.56 per 1,000 requests ($0.000556 per call). Failed calls and empty results are not charged. Asynchronous by default: returns a job_id first; poll GET /api/v1/jobs/{job_id}.

Request parameters

NameInTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
AuthorizationheaderstringYes-Bearer followed by your API key. Create it in the console; never put it in a URL or a code repository.
platformbodystringYesinstagramPlatform identifier, fixed value.
actionbodystringYesdiscoverCapability identifier, fixed value.
keywordbody.paramsNot declaredYes-Specifies the target hashtag string for the discover action, automatically stripping leading # symbols. This parameter queries hashtags rather than executing general full-text searches, and differs from the tag parameter in the hashtag action.
results_typebody.paramsenumNo-Filters content type for discover and hashtag actions, accepting posts (default), reels, or reel. Unrecognized values fall back to posts. This parameter filters platform content types and does not alter the response file format.Allowed valuesreelreels
limitbody.paramsinteger (1–200)No30

Code samples

bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "platform": "instagram",
  "action": "discover",
  "params": {
    "keyword": "coffee"
  }
}'

[OpenAPI definition (JSON)]Samples read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable; copied code never contains your key.

Response example

Field preview

There is no real sample for these example parameters yet: this shows the response shape and fields from the contract, with … as placeholders. It is not the result of a real call.

json
{
  "id": "req_…",
  "platform": "instagram",
  "action": "discover",
  "results": [
    {
      "post_id": …,
      "url": …,
      "text": …,
      "media_type": …,
      "like_count": …,
      "comment_count": …,
      "view_count": …,
      "author_username": …,
      "author_name": …,
      "posted_at": …,
      "location": …,
      "author_follower_count": …,
      "hashtags": …,
      "top_comments": …
    }
  ],
  "count": …,
  "billing": { … },
  "quota": { … }
}

Response fields

Business data is in results. The table lists the fields a record can contain; values the source does not provide are never made up.

FieldMeaning
post_idKeeps the platform's own meaning
urlLink to the record on the source platform.
textBody text with HTML removed. Long text may be truncated.
media_typeKeeps the platform's own meaning
like_countLikes. null means the platform or this capability does not disclose it; it is not 0.
comment_countComments. null means not disclosed, not 0.
view_countViews or plays. null means not disclosed, not 0.
author_usernameAuthor's username (@handle), usually usable in URLs.
author_nameAuthor's display name.
posted_atPublish time in ISO 8601, UTC (for example 2026-08-07T12:34:56+00:00). Non-standard strings from the platform are passed through as is, so parse defensively. null means the platform does not disclose it.
locationLocation description passed through as is; the format varies by platform.
author_follower_countAuthor's follower count. null means not disclosed.
hashtagsKeeps the platform's own meaning
top_commentsKeeps the platform's own meaning

Errors and billing

401
Missing or invalid key. Authentication runs before parameter checks, so unauthenticated requests never see the parameter schema.
422
Wrong parameter name or value. The error lists the parameters and allowed values this capability accepts and the closest match; it happens before any charge.
402
Insufficient balance. Top up first.
429
Per-minute request limit reached. Wait for Retry-After and try again.
503
Could not complete right now. Any charge for the call goes back to your balance automatically, and the billing receipt in the response states the actual outcome, including when it is not yet known. Do not resend blindly.
200 empty
The request completed without data and is not charged (billing.reason = empty_result_refunded).