# BlackBobs.ai Instagram Scraper (ig-scraper29)

> BlackBobs.ai Instagram Scraper (ig-scraper29) is a paid API for AI agents from blackbobs-ai.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.168498/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Scrapes and retrieves publicly available data from Instagram profiles, posts, or related content via a pay-per-call API.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://blackbobs-ai.vercel.app/api/ig-scraper29
- Price: $0.168498/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/blackbobs-ai-instagram-scraper-ig-scraper29-06bbd4d2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_U64KOThMn7xywydX6WlmF

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 blackbobs-ai-instagram-scraper-ig-scraper29-06bbd4d2 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape the Instagram profile for the username 'natgeo' and pull back their bio, follower count, recent posts, and any public engagement metrics?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically retrieve public Instagram profile or post data without requiring Instagram API OAuth credentials. It is especially useful for quick competitive research, influencer analysis, or social media monitoring tasks where pay-per-call pricing is more cost-effective than maintaining a full API integration. Prefer it over direct Instagram Graph API calls when you lack developer app credentials.

## Known failure modes

- Private or non-existent Instagram account returns empty or error result
- Instagram rate limiting or anti-scraping measures may cause request failures
- Malformed or missing username input leads to invalid API response
- Instagram UI/API changes may break scraper and return incomplete data
- Payment failure on Base chain results in 402 error and no data returned

## How this service works

194 production-ready API endpoints. AI, Search, Social, Finance, Crypto. Pay-per-call with x402 on Base chain.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing publicly available Instagram profile data such as username, bio, follower/following counts, post count, profile picture URL, recent posts with captions, media URLs, like/comment counts, and other engagement metrics.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "result": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "API response data"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "example": {
  "result": {
   "data": "example response"
  }
 },
 "properties": {
  "result": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "API response data"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/blackbobs-ai-instagram-scraper-ig-scraper29-06bbd4d2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from blackbobs-ai.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/blackbobs-ai.vercel.app/llms.txt)