# Basebuilder2 Social – Instagram Scraper API

> Basebuilder2 Social – Instagram Scraper API is a paid API for AI agents from bbx-social.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.093158/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Scrapes public Instagram profile and post data given a username or URL

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://bbx-social.vercel.app/api/ig-scraper-api?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.093158/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder2-social-instagram-scraper-api-fda050dd
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_4_C_6h4NiI6tadAxqPFIN

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 basebuilder2-social-instagram-scraper-api-fda050dd -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape the public Instagram profile for @natgeo and pull their follower count, bio, and latest 10 post captions?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically extract public Instagram profile or post data without maintaining your own scraping infrastructure. Prefer it over direct browser scraping for reliability, and over the official Instagram Graph API when you need public data without OAuth authentication from the account owner.

## Known failure modes

- Private or restricted Instagram accounts return no data or an access error
- Invalid or non-existent username returns a 404 or empty result
- Instagram rate limiting or anti-scraping measures may cause intermittent failures
- Malformed input URL may result in a parsing error
- Endpoint may return stale cached data if Instagram recently updated the profile

## How this service works

BaseBuilder Social API hub - 20 paid endpoints

## Output

Returns structured JSON containing public Instagram profile information such as username, biography, follower/following counts, post count, profile picture URL, and an array of recent posts with captions, like counts, comment counts, media URLs, and timestamps.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder2-social-instagram-scraper-api-fda050dd/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from bbx-social.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/bbx-social.vercel.app/llms.txt)