ProfileQuery Instagram API is a REST data API that returns public Instagram profiles, posts, reels, stories, comments, followers, hashtags, locations, and search results as JSON, with no OAuth, app review, or business verification required.
What is ProfileQuery Instagram API?
ProfileQuery Instagram API is a hosted REST API from ProfileQuery (profilequery.com) that queries public Instagram data. You send a handle, user ID, or URL to endpoints such as https://api.profilequery.com/v1/profile?handle=nike with a Bearer API key, and receive structured JSON containing fields like username, full name, verification status, category, follower count, following count, post count, engagement rate, external URL, and profile picture URL. It runs entirely over HTTPS and can be called from cURL, JavaScript, Python, or AI-agent tool integrations. The API returns public data only; private or protected accounts are never accessible.
Key Features
- Pay only for success — You are billed only when the API actually queries Instagram. Bad input and provider outages are free, so you do not spend credits on failed lookups.
- No approvals, no OAuth — Create an account, get an API key, and send a request. There is no app review, business verification, or Instagram Graph API OAuth flow.
- Broad endpoint coverage — Endpoints cover profiles, about (account age and country), posts, reels, stories, highlights, followers, following, post comments, likers, hashtags (top and recent), locations, and search for users, hashtags, and locations.
- Insight endpoints — Dedicated insights include engagement rate, best time to post, account stats, fake-follower audit, lead fit scoring, profile summary, and niche classifier.
- Built for AI agents — Agent Mode lets tools like Claude and ChatGPT call functions such as
get_instagram_profile. The API returns clean JSON and typed errors that LLM tool use handles gracefully. - Simple cross-stack integration — The same key works with cURL, JavaScript
fetch, Pythonrequests, and listed AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Grok, and Perplexity. - Prepaid credits — One request costs 1 credit (a few deep endpoints cost 2). New accounts get 50 free credits without a card, then pay-as-you-go with no subscription.
Who is it for?
- Developers and data engineers: build social analytics, CRM enrichment, or internal dashboards by calling REST endpoints for profiles, posts, and followers as JSON.
- Influencer marketers and agencies: vet creators using live follower counts, engagement rate, best-time-to-post data, and fake-follower audits rather than media-kit screenshots.
- Brand monitoring and trust-and-safety teams: track public posts about a brand via hashtags, locations, and search, and verify accounts or catch impersonation at signup.
- Growth and product teams: run competitor analysis, audience analytics, and growth tracking without managing OAuth or scraping infrastructure.
What can you do with ProfileQuery Instagram API?
- Influencer analytics: look up a creator's profile, engagement rate, and fake-follower audit to decide whether to partner with them.
- Brand monitoring: query hashtag, location, and search endpoints to collect public posts mentioning a brand in near real time.
- Lead generation: turn an Instagram username into a CRM-ready contact profile with follower stats, category, external URL, and verification status.
- AI agent workflows: give an LLM tool access to the API so it can fetch, parse, and summarize Instagram profiles autonomously with one API credit per call.
How does ProfileQuery Instagram API work?
- Sign up for a free key at profilequery.com/sign-up; no card is required.
- Send a GET request to an endpoint such as
/v1/profile?handle=nike, passing your key in theAuthorization: Bearerheader. - Receive a JSON response with the requested public Instagram data. Credits are deducted only for successful provider queries.
Pricing
ProfileQuery Instagram API uses prepaid credits with a free start: new users get 50 free credits, then pay-as-you-go. There is no subscription. The published tiers are Starter, Growth, and Scale, with per-credit costs decreasing at higher tiers. One request costs 1 credit (a few deep endpoints cost 2), and billing occurs only when the API actually queries Instagram.
FAQ
Can I get data from private Instagram profiles?
No. ProfileQuery Instagram API returns public Instagram data only. Private or protected accounts, and any data that would require logging in as a user, are never accessible through the API.
Do I need Instagram OAuth or app approval?
No. You create an account, grab an API key, and send a request. There is no app review, business verification, or OAuth flow to set up.
How does billing work?
Billing uses prepaid credits with no subscription. One request costs 1 credit, and a few deep endpoints cost 2. You are charged only when the API actually queries Instagram for you; bad input and provider outages are free.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Signing up gives you 50 free credits without a card. After those credits, usage is pay-as-you-go.
What data can I pull?
Public profiles, posts, reels, stories, comments, followers and following, hashtags, locations, and search results, all returned as clean JSON. The full endpoint list is in the docs.
