# Instagram User Reels Fetcher (Orthogonal x402)

> Instagram User Reels Fetcher (Orthogonal x402) is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.04/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches paginated reels from a specified Instagram user's profile, with cost-efficient pagination billing via Orthogonal's x402 payment protocol.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.orthogonal.com/fiber/v1/instagram/user-reels
- Price: $0.04/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/instagram-user-reels-fetcher-orthogonal-x402-ec76a178
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Kqhf-LJ0-8f2WbUSFjmAI

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 instagram-user-reels-fetcher-orthogonal-x402-ec76a178 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull all the reels from the Instagram account @natgeo? Start from the first page and keep paginating through until you have everything.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically retrieve a specific Instagram user's reels at scale with cost-efficient pagination — especially useful for influencer research, content audits, or social media monitoring workflows. The Orthogonal x402 billing model makes multi-page retrieval affordable since only the first page of each logical query is billed at $0.04 USDC.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent Instagram handle returns an error or empty result
- Private Instagram account reels are inaccessible and return an authorization error
- Invalid or expired nextPageToken causes pagination failure
- Changing non-pagination parameters while passing parentRequestId starts a new billable request
- Rate limiting or Instagram anti-scraping measures may cause intermittent failures
- Network timeout for large reel lists

## How this service works

Fetches paginated reels from an Instagram user. Pagination billing: call the first page normally and save billing.requestId from the Orthogonal /v1/run response. For later page, offset, or cursor calls on the same logical search, pass parentRequestId with unchanged non-pagination parameters. Valid continuation calls still get their own request IDs and quoted price, but are charged 0. Changing filters starts a new billable request.

## Output

Returns a list of Instagram reels from the specified user's profile, including reel metadata (video URLs, captions, engagement metrics, timestamps), plus a nextPageToken for retrieving subsequent pages and a billing requestId to use as parentRequestId for free continuation calls.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "handle": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Instagram handle."
  },
  "nextPageToken": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Pagination token. For continuation billing, keep non-pagination parameters unchanged and pass top-level parentRequestId from the first Orthogonal /v1/run response."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/instagram-user-reels-fetcher-orthogonal-x402-ec76a178/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)