# Coockies.ai Instagram Scraper API

> Coockies.ai Instagram Scraper API is a paid API for AI agents from coockies-ai.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.101936/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Scrapes public Instagram profile and post data for a given account or URL

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://coockies-ai.vercel.app/api/ig-scraper-20253?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.101936/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/coockies-ai-instagram-scraper-api-178d9deb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_R5ab2F0niwJbGHS4vULtu

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 coockies-ai-instagram-scraper-api-178d9deb -d '<json body>'
```

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

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically extract public Instagram profile or post data without managing your own scraper infrastructure. It is well-suited for social media analytics, influencer research, competitor monitoring, and CRM enrichment workflows that require Instagram data on demand via a pay-per-call model.

## Known failure modes

- Private or non-existent Instagram accounts return empty or error responses
- Instagram rate limiting or anti-scraping measures may cause temporary failures
- Invalid username or URL format results in a bad request error
- Instagram layout changes may break scraping logic, returning incomplete data
- Network timeouts on slow responses from Instagram's servers

## 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 scraped Instagram profile data such as username, bio, follower count, following count, post count, profile picture URL, recent posts with likes/comments, and other publicly available account metadata.

## 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/coockies-ai-instagram-scraper-api-178d9deb/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from coockies-ai.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/coockies-ai.vercel.app/llms.txt)