GET/v1/instagram/profile-comments1 credit per comment

Instagram Profile Comments API

Comments across a profile's recent posts in one call, each row carrying the post it was left on. The fastest way to read what an audience is saying to an account without walking its feed post by post.

Request

parameter	type	description
handle	string, required	The Instagram username, without the @.
limit	integer	Items per page, up to 50 synchronously. Above that the call becomes a job.
cursor	string	meta.next_cursor from the previous page.
fresh	boolean	Skip the stored copy and read live, at the same price.
fields	string	Comma-separated field paths to keep.
format	json, csv	CSV flattens each item to one row.

Billing and freshness

1 credit per comment. Failed calls are never charged, and empty results are free up to 25 a day. Stored copies are age-aware, 15 minutes to 7 days.

What you get back

A page of comments. Each row has the comment text, its author, its timestamp and a post object with the post's id, URL, caption and date. limit sets how many comments come back; the call reads as many recent posts as needed to fill it, about ten comments per post.

Comment ids and like counts are not published on these rows and are null.

GET /v1/instagram/profile-comments

curl "https://api.instadata.dev/v1/instagram/profile-comments?handle=nasa&limit=10" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ik_live_..."

{
  "data": [ … ],
  "meta": { "count": …, "limit": …, "next_cursor": "…" },
  "request_id": "req_01J…"
}

Fields

field	type	note
id	null	Not published on these rows.
text	string	The comment as written.
author	string\|null	Handle of the commenter.
author_avatar	string\|null	Profile picture URL of the commenter; short-lived.
likes	null	Not published on these rows.
posted_at	string\|null	ISO 8601 timestamp of the comment.
post	object	{ id, url, caption, posted_at } of the post the comment is under.

Reach for it when

Audience research: the words an account's followers use, across its latest posts.
Sentiment monitoring for a brand's own account on a schedule.
Finding engaged commenters for outreach or community work.

Not the right call when

You want every comment under one specific post, with ids and like counts. That is the Comments endpoint by post URL.
You want the posts themselves rather than their comments. That is Profile Posts.

Things to know

1 credit per comment

Charged per comment row returned.

Questions

How is this different from the Comments endpoint?

Comments reads one post by URL and returns full rows with ids and like counts. Profile Comments reads a handle and returns a sample of comments across its recent posts, each tagged with its post, without ids or like counts.

How many posts does it read?

About one post per ten comments requested. limit=50 reads the five newest posts and returns up to ten comments from each.

What does it cost?

1 credit per comment returned. Empty results are free up to the daily allowance.

GET /v1/instagram/comments The whole sheet