Instagram Comments Scraper - Comments, Likes & Reply Counts

Instagram Comments Scraper exports the comments of public Instagram posts and reels, one row per comment, with no Instagram account, login or cookies. Paste post or reel links and get every comment's text, date, likes, number of replies and commenter (username, verified badge, profile picture), next to the post it is on (link, caption, owner, likes), ready for CSV, Excel or JSON. Get the newest comments or every comment Instagram shows. It costs $0.38 per 1,000 comments.

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What does Instagram Comments Scraper do?

Instagram Comments Scraper reads the comments Instagram shows a visitor who opens a post or reel without logging in. You can:

• 💬 Export Instagram comments in bulk: from as many post and reel links as you like, in one run.
• 📄 Get one row per comment: each comment is its own dataset item, so CSV and Excel exports are a clean table.
• ♾️ Get all comments: set the limit to 0 for every comment Instagram shows on a post, with no upper limit, or keep the newest 20, 100 or 1,000.
• 👤 Know who commented: commenter username and id, verified badge and profile picture.
• ❤️ See what resonates: likes and number of replies of every comment.
• 💸 Pay per comment saved: posts cost nothing, and deleted, private and age-restricted posts are skipped.

Everything the Apify platform gives you comes with it: the Apify API, scheduled runs, webhooks, integrations with Make, Zapier, n8n and Google Sheets, and datasets you can download in any format.

What data can you extract from Instagram comments?

Field	What it is
text	The comment
timestamp	When it was posted (UTC)
likesCount, repliesCount	Likes on the comment and replies to it
ownerUsername, ownerId	The commenter
ownerIsVerified, ownerProfilePicUrl	The commenter's verified badge and profile picture
id	The comment's id
postUrl, postShortCode, postId, postType	The post or reel the comment is on
postOwnerUsername, postOwnerId	Who posted it
postCaption, postTimestamp, postLikesCount, postCommentsCount	The post's caption, date, likes and comments count
inputUrl, scrapedAt	The link you gave, and when the comment was read

The Comments view of the dataset shows the comments as a table; the With the post view puts each comment next to its post.

How to scrape Instagram comments

1. Open Instagram Comments Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Paste post or reel links into Post or reel URLs, one per line.
3. Set Max comments per post, or 0 for every comment Instagram shows.
4. Click Start. Comments appear in the dataset, one row each, as they are read.
5. Download them as CSV, Excel, JSON or HTML, or read them with the Apify API.

How much does it cost to scrape Instagram comments?

You pay per comment saved: $0.49 per 1,000 comments, plus $0.0005 when a run starts (Apify's standard Actor start event, one per GB of memory; Apify then covers the run's first 5 seconds of compute). The posts themselves cost nothing. Platform usage and proxies are included. On Apify's Silver plan the price drops to $0.441 per 1,000 comments, and on Gold to $0.392.

• 100 posts × 100 comments = 10,000 comments → $4.90
• 1 viral reel with every comment (about 2,000) → about $0.98

Deleted, private and age-restricted posts, and posts without comments, cost nothing. To cap the cost of a run, set Maximum cost per run in the run options: the scraper stops cleanly once the next comment would go over it, keeping everything read so far. Apify's free plan includes monthly platform credit, enough to try the scraper on over ten thousand comments.

Input example

{
  "postUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/p/DfahZrMjAqq/", "https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dfc1mYxFevS/"],
  "maxComments": 100
}

Field	Type	Description
postUrls	array of strings	Post, reel or video links (/p/..., /reel/..., /tv/..., with or without the username before them, any ?igsh=… parameters) or short codes. A link inside other text is read as that link. Duplicates are read once.
maxComments	integer	Comments per post, newest first. 0 for every comment Instagram shows. Default: 100.
proxyConfiguration	object	The scraper picks Apify Proxy's tier itself: datacenter first, residential only when Instagram refuses a request. Your own proxy URLs are used as given.

Output example

One item per comment (commenter details abbreviated):

{
  "id": "17900000000000001",
  "text": "Count me in! 🚀",
  "timestamp": "2026-11-08T01:54:33.000Z",
  "likesCount": 0,
  "repliesCount": 0,
  "ownerId": "...",
  "ownerUsername": "...",
  "ownerIsVerified": false,
  "ownerProfilePicUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/...",
  "postUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/Dfc1mYxFevS/",
  "postShortCode": "Dfc1mYxFevS",
  "postId": "4025327901360909266",
  "postType": "Video",
  "postOwnerUsername": "nasa",
  "postOwnerId": "528817151",
  "postCaption": "Apply to become an astronaut! ... #NASA #Astronaut #JobSearch",
  "postTimestamp": "2026-11-07T18:35:41.000Z",
  "postLikesCount": 43919,
  "postCommentsCount": 550,
  "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dfc1mYxFevS/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-08T02:26:12.481Z"
}

Every item has the same fields in the same order (null when Instagram does not show a value), so CSV and Excel exports line up.

Use cases

• Social listening and sentiment analysis: collect what people say under a brand's, competitor's or creator's posts.
• Giveaways and contests: list the accounts that commented on a giveaway post, with their comments.
• Customer research: find questions, complaints and feature requests in the comments.
• Influencer vetting: check whether a creator's comments are genuine and engaged.
• Datasets for AI and research: build comment datasets for language models, classification and academic studies.

Use it via API, Python, JavaScript and integrations

Run Instagram Comments Scraper from your own code with the Apify API or the Apify clients:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("socialscrapers/instagram-comments-scraper").call(
    run_input={"postUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dfc1mYxFevS/"], "maxComments": 0}
)
for comment in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(comment["ownerUsername"], comment["text"], comment["postUrl"])

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('socialscrapers/instagram-comments-scraper').call({ postUrls: ['DfahZrMjAqq'], maxComments: 500 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

You can also schedule runs, get a webhook when a run finishes, send comments to Google Sheets, Slack or a database with Apify integrations, connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n, or let AI agents run it through the Apify MCP server.

Limits

• Public posts only. Instagram Comments Scraper never logs in, so it sees what a logged-out visitor sees. Deleted, private and age-restricted posts are skipped and cost nothing.
• Top-level comments. Instagram shows logged-out visitors most top-level comments; replies are counted in repliesCount but not listed. A post's postCommentsCount includes replies, so it is usually higher than the number of comments you get.
• Share links from the app (https://www.instagram.com/share/…) are followed to the post or reel they open; following a link is never charged.
• A run with 0 results still succeeds, and no results are charged. When every post is deleted, private or has no comments, the run ends as Succeeded with a status message naming each entry and why. When no entry holds a post link or short code at all, the run ends as Succeeded at once, with a status message that starts "Nothing to scrape:", says how to fix the input and ends "No results were charged." A run fails only when Instagram refuses the scraper itself (every one of 3 or more posts, and a profile that is always public too), or on an internal error.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Instagram comments? Instagram Comments Scraper collects only public data that anyone can see without logging in. Comments are personal data under laws such as the GDPR: have a legitimate reason to collect them, and follow Instagram's terms and the laws that apply to you.

Do I need an Instagram account or cookies? No. You only need the links of public posts or reels. The scraper never logs in, so no account of yours is ever at risk.

How do I get all the comments of a post? Set Max comments per post to 0. A busy reel with about 2,800 comments (replies included) gave 1,841 top-level comments in our tests.

Do I pay for the posts? No. You pay only for comments saved, $0.49 per 1,000, plus $0.0005 for the start of each run.

Why are some comments missing? Replies and comments Instagram hides from logged-out visitors are not listed, and the run may have reached its maximum cost. The run log says which, for each post.

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