# Coockies.ai Instagram Scraper (api12)

> Coockies.ai Instagram Scraper (api12) is a paid API for AI agents from coockies-ai.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.138473/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-24).

Scrapes Instagram profile, post, or content data via a third-party scraper API proxied through the Coockies.ai hub

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://coockies-ai.vercel.app/api/ig-scraper-api12?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.138473/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-24
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/coockies-ai-instagram-scraper-api12-446168b8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nNKmXty52pRzaHejfutIX

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-api12-446168b8 -d '<json body>'
```

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

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need public Instagram profile or post data without access to the official Instagram Graph API, or when you lack an approved developer account. Useful for quick lookups of public accounts, influencer research, and social media enrichment pipelines. Prefer this over direct scraping when you want a managed, pay-per-call solution with no infrastructure setup.

## Known failure modes

- Private or non-existent Instagram accounts return empty or error results
- Instagram rate limiting or anti-scraping measures may cause failures
- Invalid or malformed username/URL input returns no data
- Instagram DOM/API changes may break the underlying scraper intermittently
- Payment failure on Base chain blocks the call before it reaches the scraper

## 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 result object containing scraped Instagram data such as profile information (username, bio, follower/following counts, post count, profile picture URL), post metadata (captions, like counts, timestamps, media URLs), and other publicly available account details depending on the query.

## 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-api12-446168b8/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)