# Coockies.ai Instagram Scraper (ig-scraper-20251)

> Coockies.ai Instagram Scraper (ig-scraper-20251) is a paid API for AI agents from coockies-ai.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.0976/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Scrapes public Instagram profile and post data on demand via a pay-per-call API

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://coockies-ai.vercel.app/api/ig-scraper-20251?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.0976/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/coockies-ai-instagram-scraper-ig-scraper-20251-9efd80ae
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_eJyURS8ZE1s6f2Li_zG4d

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-ig-scraper-20251-9efd80ae -d '<json body>'
```

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

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick, pay-per-call access to public Instagram profile or post data without setting up your own scraping infrastructure. It is ideal for one-off lookups, influencer research, competitor analysis, or lead enrichment workflows where you need Instagram data on demand without an official Instagram API partnership or long-term data subscription.

## Known failure modes

- Private or restricted account returns no data or an access error
- Invalid or non-existent Instagram handle returns an empty or error result
- Instagram rate limiting or anti-scraping measures may cause partial or failed responses
- Stale or cached data may be returned if Instagram has changed the profile recently
- Malformed input (missing username) results in a validation error

## 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 structured JSON object containing scraped Instagram profile data such as username, follower count, following count, post count, biography text, profile picture URL, recent post metadata (captions, likes, comments, media URLs), and engagement metrics for the requested account.

## 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-ig-scraper-20251-9efd80ae/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)