# BaseBuilder Social Instagram Scraper

> BaseBuilder Social Instagram Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from bb-social-brown.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.106032/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-24).

Scrapes Instagram profile and post data via a paid API endpoint

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://bb-social-brown.vercel.app/api/ig-scraper-20251?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.106032/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-24
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder-social-instagram-scraper-0b5212a8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_iPGc56EpC8eUTuUkPRqgP

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-scraper-0b5212a8 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape the Instagram profile for @nike and give me their follower count, bio, recent post captions, and engagement metrics?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically extract public Instagram profile or post data without the official Instagram API, especially for influencer research, competitor analysis, or social media monitoring workflows that require fast, paid-per-call access.

## Known failure modes

- Private account — profile data not publicly accessible
- Invalid or non-existent Instagram username returns error
- Rate limiting or Instagram blocking the scraper returns failure
- Payment of 0.106032 USDC not settled causes 402 rejection
- Endpoint unavailable or Vercel cold-start timeout

## How this service works

BaseBuilder Social API hub - 20 paid endpoints

## Output

Returns scraped Instagram profile and/or post data including follower count, following count, bio, profile picture URL, post captions, likes, comments, and other publicly available metadata.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder-social-instagram-scraper-0b5212a8/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)