# SiteCheck Shop & Social – Instagram Profile Lookup

> SiteCheck Shop & Social – Instagram Profile Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-27).

Fetches public Instagram profile metadata (ID, username, bio, follower/following/post counts, verified status, and more) for a given Instagram username.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/api/social/instagram-profile?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-27
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-shop-social-instagram-profile-lookup-e400d86e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_M6OUowNRgeieDfDdtP_oS

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 sitecheck-shop-social-instagram-profile-lookup-e400d86e
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the Instagram profile for @nike — I want to see their follower count, bio, whether they're verified, and any external links they have listed?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured Instagram profile metadata (follower counts, bio, verification status, business flags) for a specific known username without requiring Instagram API credentials or OAuth. Ideal for lightweight profile lookups, influencer research, and competitor monitoring where you have a username in hand. Prefer alternatives if you need to search for accounts by keyword (no search capability here), need posts/media content (a sibling endpoint covers that), or need guaranteed uptime rather than best-effort anonymous access.

## Known failure modes

- 503 Service Unavailable – Instagram throttled the anonymous request; call is not charged and can be retried
- 502 Bad Gateway – Instagram returned an error for certain business profiles
- 404 Not Found – username does not exist on Instagram
- Rate limiting may cause intermittent failures during high-traffic periods

## How this service works

Pay-per-call e-commerce, product, price and social media data tools for AI agents, from public sources. Payment: x402, USDC on Base, Solana, Arc, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad, World Chain, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo or Stellar, or RLUSD/XRP on the XRP Ledger. No signup, no API key; a failed call is not charged.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the Instagram account's numeric ID, username, full name, biography text, external URL, bio links, follower count, following count, post count, reel count, highlight count, profile picture URL, and boolean flags for verified, private, and business status, plus the account category if set. Returns 404 for unknown usernames, 503 if Instagram throttles the anonymous request (not charged), and 502 for certain business profiles that trigger an Instagram-side error.

## 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"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "username"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "username": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Instagram username (with or without @) or instagram.com/<user> URL"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-shop-social-instagram-profile-lookup-e400d86e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.shopsocial-api.workers.dev/llms.txt)