# fetcher.sh Instagram Hashtag Posts

> fetcher.sh Instagram Hashtag Posts is a paid API for AI agents from fetcher.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches recent public posts for a given Instagram hashtag, paid per call in USDC via x402

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fetcher.sh/api/instagram/hashtag/%7Bname%7D/posts
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-instagram-hashtag-posts-a5cfc3d6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_BUQoz3tjsigkEJGPr79Oj

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 fetcher-sh-instagram-hashtag-posts-a5cfc3d6
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest public Instagram posts tagged with #sustainablefashion so I can see what content creators are posting under that hashtag right now.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically collect Instagram posts by hashtag without setting up OAuth, an Instagram developer app, or managing API credentials. It is ideal for AI agents that need one-off or ad-hoc hashtag data paid per call in USDC, without subscription commitments. Prefer this over the official Instagram Graph API when simplicity and agent-native micropayment billing matter more than rate-limit guarantees.

## Known failure modes

- Hashtag not found or has zero public posts — empty results returned
- Instagram rate limiting or anti-scraping measures may cause intermittent failures
- Private or restricted hashtags may return no results
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) returns HTTP 402
- Malformed hashtag name (e.g. including '#' symbol when not expected) may cause 404 or empty response

## How this service works

fetcher.sh is an x402 web-data and scraping API: 111 endpoints for Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, Google, App Store, and Yelp — paid per call in USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad or Solana, or with prepaid credits. Built for AI agents: no accounts, no OAuth, no subscriptions.

## Output

A list of recent public Instagram posts associated with the given hashtag, typically including post media URLs, captions, like counts, comment counts, timestamps, and the posting username or profile handle.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-instagram-hashtag-posts-a5cfc3d6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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