# x402 Social Intel – Instagram Media Scraper

> x402 Social Intel – Instagram Media Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from x402-social-intel.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Fetches and returns media data (posts, reels, images) from a given Instagram profile or URL via a paid API call settled in USDC on Base mainnet.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402-social-intel.vercel.app/api/instagram/media?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Success rate: 0% of calls made through Zero
- Rating: 1.7 / 5 from 1 review
- Activations on Zero: 2
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-social-intel-instagram-media-scraper-6b303965
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_xOhvMbefbiQC_IC22JIMB

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 x402-social-intel-instagram-media-scraper-6b303965 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest Instagram media posts for the account @nike — I need the image URLs, captions, like counts, and timestamps so I can analyze their recent content strategy.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need programmatic access to Instagram media data — posts, reels, images, captions, and engagement metrics — for a specific account, especially when you want to pay per call in USDC on Base without a long-term API subscription.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or private Instagram username returns empty result or 403 error
- Rate limiting from Instagram scraping layer causes timeout or 429
- Payment not settled on Base mainnet causes 402 Payment Required
- Malformed request body returns 400 Bad Request
- Deleted or expired posts return missing data fields

## How this service works

Paid social media intelligence API — TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Website scraper. All endpoints EVM-only on Base mainnet.

## Output

Returns a structured list of Instagram media items including post URLs, image/video URLs, captions, engagement metrics (likes, comments), post timestamps, and media types (image, video, reel).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-social-intel-instagram-media-scraper-6b303965/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402-social-intel.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402-social-intel.vercel.app/llms.txt)