# Social Intel API — Instagram Influencer Search

> Social Intel API — Instagram Influencer Search is a paid API for AI agents from socialintel.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Looks up an Instagram user's public profile data including business email, follower count, category, and verification status by username

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://socialintel.dev/v1/user/%7Busername%7D
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/social-intel-api-instagram-influencer-search-1aa246e0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_alsq8QFn_OKxlRbFBVn8K

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 social-intel-api-instagram-influencer-search-1aa246e0
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the Instagram profile for 'yoga_with_adriene' and get me their business email, follower count, and account category?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need fast, pay-per-use Instagram profile enrichment without a subscription — especially useful for one-off influencer research, lead generation at scale ($1.30 per 100 lookups), or automated outreach pipelines that need business emails tied to Instagram accounts. Prefer this over scraping or subscription tools when you need structured JSON output with business email and category data in a single API call.

## Known failure modes

- Username not found: returns 404 or empty result if the account does not exist or is private
- Rate limiting: per-call pricing model means each failed attempt still costs $0.01 USDC
- Email not available: public_email may be null or masked if user has not set a business email
- Account not a business: is_business may be false, meaning no email will be returned
- Stale data: cached:true indicates data may not reflect the most recent profile changes
- Invalid username format: passing '@' prefix or special characters may cause request failure

## How this service works

Find Instagram influencers with business emails in one API call. 100 leads for $1.30 — no signup, no subscription. Pay per search with USDC.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the Instagram user's full name, bio, follower count, following count, media count, business email (partially masked), profile category, profile picture URL, verification status, business account flag, and a timestamp of when the data was fetched — plus a cache indicator.

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "type": "http",
  "method": "GET",
  "queryParams": {
   "username": "nasa"
  }
 }
}
```

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "username"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "username": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Instagram username (no @)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "bio": "Yoga teacher & filmmaker from Austin TX",
  "cached": true,
  "category": "Personal Goods & General Merchandise Stores",
  "username": "yoga_with_adriene",
  "followers": 10500000,
  "following": 1,
  "full_name": "Adriene Mishler",
  "fetched_at": "2026-04-26T10:32:00+00:00",
  "is_business": true,
  "is_verified": true,
  "media_count": 1500,
  "public_email": "co***@adriene.com",
  "profile_pic_url": "https://instagram.fxxx-1.fna.fbcdn.net/..."
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/social-intel-api-instagram-influencer-search-1aa246e0/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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