# SocialFetch Instagram Post Fetcher

> SocialFetch Instagram Post Fetcher is a paid API for AI agents from api.socialfetch.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.014/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15, last successful call 2026-08-16).

Fetches metadata and media for a single Instagram post or Reel given its URL

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/instagram/posts
- Price: $0.014/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Last successful call: 2026-08-16
- Success rate: 100% of calls made through Zero
- Rating: 5.0 / 5 from 1 review
- Activations on Zero: 57
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/socialfetch-instagram-post-fetcher-64a9a804
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_WZ0tzcHAbQw4xylP5k5aw

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 socialfetch-instagram-post-fetcher-64a9a804
```

Example prompt: Can you fetch all the details for this Instagram post — https://www.instagram.com/p/ABC123xyz/ — including the media download links?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you have a specific Instagram post or Reel URL and need to retrieve its metadata, content, or media. Prefer this over profile-listing endpoints when you already know the exact post URL. Use downloadMedia=true when you need permanent CDN links to the actual media files.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed Instagram URL returns an error
- Private or restricted post returns no data or access denied
- Post has been deleted or made unavailable
- Region routing misconfigured resulting in geo-blocked response
- downloadMedia flag adds extra credit cost and may fail if media is unavailable

## How this service works

Get a single Instagram post or Reel by URL.

## Output

Returns structured metadata for the specified Instagram post or Reel, including post details, captions, engagement metrics, and optionally permanent CDN URLs for media if downloadMedia is enabled. A trimmed version with fewer fields is available via the trim flag.

## 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": [
      "url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 4096,
       "minLength": 1,
       "description": "Link to the post or reel."
      },
      "trim": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "boolean"
        },
        {
         "enum": [
          "0",
          "1",
          "true",
          "false"
         ],
         "type": "string"
        }
       ],
       "description": "When true, returns a smaller response with fewer fields."
      },
      "region": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional ISO 3166-1 country code for request routing."
      },
      "downloadMedia": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "boolean"
        },
        {
         "enum": [
          "0",
          "1",
          "true",
          "false"
         ],
         "type": "string"
        }
       ],
       "description": "When true, downloads media and returns hosted URLs in `downloads` (not SocialFetch-owned storage). Adds 10 credits when media is found (11 total including the base lookup); when no media is returned the base lookup credit still applies."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "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/socialfetch-instagram-post-fetcher-64a9a804/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.socialfetch.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.socialfetch.dev/llms.txt)