Instagram Comments Scraper

⚡ Instagram Comments Scraper — Post & Reel Comments

Scrape every comment from any Instagram post or reel — text, like count, reply count, author, verified badge, and timestamp. Flat JSON/CSV/Excel export or one-click Notion delivery. Pay per comment — a run that returns no comments costs only the $0.001 start fee.

Why it wins

• 💸 $0.40 / 1,000 comments, flat — no volume tiers and no plan gates: the price is the same on the first comment and the millionth.
• 🔄 Session handled for you — the login this data requires is built in, and the actor moves across a pool of fresh exit addresses as it goes, so a single block never sinks a run. Supply your own cookie instead if you want a private rate limit.
• 🧹 Clean, flat records — no nested GraphQL soup. One row per comment, ready for a sheet or a database.
• 📬 Notion delivery built in — pipe results straight into a Notion data source, no glue code.
• 🎯 Post URL or shortcode — paste /p/, /reel/, or /tv/ links, or bare shortcodes. Both work.

> Instagram gates comments behind a login — there is no keyless path for this data. This actor ships with a session, so a run works out of the box; supplying your own cookie is optional and buys you a rate limit nobody else shares.

🆓 Try it with no input (sample mode)

Run it with no post URLs and you get an instant, free, clearly-labeled sample of the exact output shape (each row carries sampleData: true and a _notice). Sample rows are never charged the per-comment fee — the run costs the $0.001 start fee and nothing else. Perfect for wiring up your pipeline before you point it at real posts.

Sessions and rate limits

Comment threads need a logged-in session and one is built in, so a run works out of the box with nothing to paste. That session is shared by everyone running this actor, so under heavy concurrent or sustained load you can meet a shared rate limit and see RATE_LIMITED diagnostic rows.

To get throughput nobody else can affect, paste your own Instagram account cookie into sessionCookies. When you supply one it is used on its own — the shared session is not mixed in — so the rate limit you get is entirely yours.

Getting the cookie (about a minute): log in to instagram.com on a throwaway account → F12 → Application → Cookies → copy the sessionid value → paste it into sessionCookies, one per line. Never use an account you care about: automated reading can get an account rate-limited or checkpointed, and Instagram invalidates sessions on its own schedule.

Input

Output

One flat record per comment:

{
  "type": "comment",
  "id": "17912345678901234",
  "mediaId": "1234567890123456789",
  "text": "this is unreal 🔥",
  "likeCount": 42,
  "replyCount": 3,
  "createdAt": "2026-06-20T14:08:31.000Z",
  "ownerUsername": "real_user",
  "ownerId": "9876543210",
  "ownerVerified": false
}

Pricing

$0.40 per 1,000 comments ($0.0004 each), plus $0.001 each time a run starts. Flat rate — no volume tiers, no plan gates — and you are charged only for comments actually returned.

Failed or empty runs are not charged the per-comment fee; they cost only the $0.001 start fee.

FAQ

Do I need to supply a cookie? No. Instagram comments are login-gated — there is no keyless path — but a session is built in, so runs work with sessionCookies empty. Supplying your own is optional and buys you a rate limit nobody else shares.

When is it worth supplying my own? When you run at volume or on a schedule. The built-in session is shared, so heavy concurrent use divides one rate limit between everyone; your own cookie is used on its own and is unaffected by other runs. Add one sessionid per line — several are rotated.

Posts or reels? Both. Reels and IGTV (/reel/, /tv/) work exactly like feed posts (/p/).

Will I be charged if a post is private or returns nothing? Not the per-comment fee — you only pay that for comments actually returned. The $0.001 run-start fee is charged on every run, so a run that comes back empty costs $0.001.

How do I get results into Notion? Set notionConnector and notionParentId and the actor delivers each run automatically.

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Want posts, profiles, hashtags, or locations too? Pair this with the companion Instagram Scraper and Instagram Hashtag Scraper.

Billing

Two charges apply: a $0.001 run-start fee each time a run begins, and the per-result fee for results actually delivered. Samples, diagnostics, duplicates, blocked look-ups and no-result runs never incur the per-result fee — a run that returns nothing costs only the $0.001 start fee.