# BaseBuilder Social Instagram Profile Lookup

> BaseBuilder Social Instagram Profile Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from bb-social-brown.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.119521/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches Instagram profile data for a given username via a paid API endpoint

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://bb-social-brown.vercel.app/api/instagram/profile
- Price: $0.119521/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-profile-lookup-5ad812b3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_J8eUqKRPNnSLqx0pyrKV4

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-profile-lookup-5ad812b3 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the Instagram profile details for the account @natgeo — I want to see their follower count, bio, and post count?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need quick, paid, reliable access to Instagram public profile data without managing your own Instagram API credentials or scraping infrastructure. Suitable for influencer research, brand monitoring, or enriching user records with social media stats.

## Known failure modes

- Username not found — returns 404 or empty profile object
- Private account — limited or no data returned
- Rate limit exceeded — returns 429 or similar throttling error
- Payment not processed — returns 402 requiring USDC payment
- Invalid username format — returns 400 validation error
- Instagram API downstream outage — returns 503

## How this service works

BaseBuilder Social API hub - 20 paid endpoints

## Output

Returns Instagram profile metadata for the requested username, including follower count, following count, bio description, post count, profile picture URL, and account verification status.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder-social-instagram-profile-lookup-5ad812b3/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)