# Basebuilder2 Social – Instagram Scraper (API12)

> Basebuilder2 Social – Instagram Scraper (API12) is a paid API for AI agents from bbx-social.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.149345/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Scrapes Instagram profile and post data via the ig-scraper-api12 endpoint on the BaseBuilder Social hub

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://bbx-social.vercel.app/api/ig-scraper-api12
- Price: $0.149345/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder2-social-instagram-scraper-api12-f45c1a85
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_0QUMpFlHo3HltTkZSfumN

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-api12-f45c1a85 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape the Instagram profile for @natgeo and give me their follower count, bio, and the last 10 posts with their like counts?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to extract public Instagram profile or post data programmatically without official Instagram API credentials. Useful for influencer research, competitor monitoring, social proof enrichment, and content analysis at a low per-call cost of ~$0.15 USDC.

## Known failure modes

- Private account — returns limited or no data if the account is set to private
- Invalid username or URL — returns error if the handle does not exist
- Rate limit exceeded — endpoint returns 429 or similar if too many requests are made in a short period
- Instagram anti-scraping measures — Instagram may block scraping attempts, resulting in incomplete or empty responses
- Payment failure — x402 payment not processed, request rejected before execution

## How this service works

BaseBuilder Social API hub - 20 paid endpoints

## Output

Returns scraped Instagram data including profile details (username, bio, follower/following counts, post count, profile picture URL) and post-level data (captions, like counts, comment counts, media URLs, timestamps) for the requested account or posts.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder2-social-instagram-scraper-api12-f45c1a85/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)