# Influship Live Instagram Profile Scraper

> Influship Live Instagram Profile Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from api.influship.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Scrapes live Instagram profile data for a given username (e.g. NASA) in real time

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.influship.com/v1/raw/instagram/profile/nasa
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/influship-live-instagram-profile-scraper-996fc0be
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fz61E5yViAdeC3LN0AIqZ

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 influship-live-instagram-profile-scraper-996fc0be
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the live Instagram profile data for the account 'nasa' — I want to see their follower count, bio, and post stats right now?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time, live Instagram profile data for a specific public account and cannot rely on cached or historical data. Prefer this over database lookups or static datasets when recency matters — e.g. for influencer vetting, brand monitoring, or live follower counts. Especially useful for agent workflows that need to verify current profile stats before making decisions about partnerships or content strategies.

## Known failure modes

- Instagram account not found or does not exist — 404 or empty result
- Instagram rate limiting or anti-scrape measures block the request — may return error or stale data
- Private Instagram account — public profile data unavailable
- Invalid or malformed username in the path parameter
- Upstream scraping infrastructure temporarily unavailable — 5xx error
- Payment not processed — x402 payment required error

## How this service works

Live Instagram scraping

## Output

Returns live-scraped Instagram profile data for the specified username, including follower count, following count, post count, bio text, profile picture URL, verification status, and other public profile metadata available on Instagram at the time of the request.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/influship-live-instagram-profile-scraper-996fc0be/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.influship.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.influship.com/llms.txt)