# PayWeave Instagram Profile Scraper

> PayWeave Instagram Profile Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from instagram.payweave.services, paid per call via x402, $0.00405/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Fetches Instagram profile data including posts, profile details, and comments for a given Instagram profile URL

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://instagram.payweave.services/profile
- Price: $0.00405/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/payweave-instagram-profile-scraper-7554e7ce
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_KKd6sbMCN_qV42Kkh88Cr

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 payweave-instagram-profile-scraper-7554e7ce -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull all the public profile details, recent posts, and comments from the Instagram account at https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/ so I can analyze their content strategy.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured Instagram profile and post data on a pay-per-call basis without managing your own scraping infrastructure or Instagram API credentials. It is well-suited for ad-hoc lookups, agent workflows that need social data on demand, and cases where you want to avoid the overhead of a full social media API subscription.

## Known failure modes

- Private Instagram accounts may return no data or restricted data
- Invalid or malformed Instagram profile URL returns an error
- Rate limiting or Instagram anti-scraping measures may cause failures
- Deleted or suspended accounts return empty or error responses
- Transient network or upstream Instagram errors may cause timeouts

## How this service works

Instagram data — posts, profile details, and comments.

## Output

Returns structured data about the Instagram profile including profile metadata (bio, follower/following counts, display name, profile picture), a list of recent posts (captions, media, timestamps, engagement metrics), and associated comments for those posts.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "profileUrl": {
   "type": "string",
   "pattern": "^https?://(www\\.)?instagram\\.com/.+",
   "description": "Instagram profile URL, e.g. https://www.instagram.com/username/"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/payweave-instagram-profile-scraper-7554e7ce/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from instagram.payweave.services](https://www.zero.xyz/host/instagram.payweave.services/llms.txt)