# BaseBuilder Social Instagram API Scraper

> BaseBuilder Social Instagram API Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from bb-social-brown.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.075666/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Scrapes Instagram profile and post data via a paid API endpoint

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://bb-social-brown.vercel.app/api/ig-api-scraper
- Price: $0.075666/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder-social-instagram-api-scraper-21b204b7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_c5TqBAHdvF93j2QyNg0-5

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability basebuilder-social-instagram-api-scraper-21b204b7 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape the Instagram profile data for @natgeo — I need the follower count, bio, post count, and their most recent post details?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically retrieve Instagram profile or post data without going through Meta's official API approval process, especially for competitive research, influencer analytics, or social listening tasks.

## Known failure modes

- Private or restricted Instagram account returns no data
- Invalid or non-existent Instagram username returns error
- Instagram rate limiting or blocking causes scrape failure
- Payment of 0.075666 USDC not processed correctly returns 402
- Endpoint returns incomplete data if Instagram changes its structure

## How this service works

BaseBuilder Social API hub - 20 paid endpoints

## Output

Returns scraped Instagram data including profile information (bio, follower count, following count, post count) and post-level data (likes, comments, captions, media URLs) for the requested account or post.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder-social-instagram-api-scraper-21b204b7/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from bb-social-brown.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/bb-social-brown.vercel.app/llms.txt)