Campaign and branded-tag monitoring
Poll branded and campaign hashtags on a schedule, store each shortcode once, and route new posts into review or response workflows.
Instagram API / Search Hashtag
Instagram Hashtag Scraper — Paginated Public Posts for Any Tag
Send a hashtag without the # and receive public posts as JSON, with an opaque cursor for the next page. No Instagram login or browser automation to maintain.
1 credit per request · request metadata included · errors are never charged
GET /v1/instagram/hashtag1 creditcurl "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/instagram/hashtag?tag=specialtycoffee" \
-H "x-api-key: $INSCRAPE_KEY"Parameters
tagstringrequiredHashtag without the #cursorstringPagination cursor returned by the previous call
What you get
What the Instagram Hashtag Scraper returns.
- Public posts associated with the submitted hashtag
- Post captions, shortcodes and media fields exposed by the public response
- Engagement fields returned with each post
- A cursor for requesting the next page of results
Use cases
Instagram Hashtag Scraper use cases.
Creator discovery from active content
A hashtag feed surfaces accounts publishing in a niche now. Enrich the handles with the Profile API only after their posts pass your relevance filter.
Comment-level social listening
Take the posts returned for a tag and pass their URLs to the Comments API to analyse the conversation beneath the content.
FAQ
Instagram Hashtag Scraper FAQ.
Does this return posts or only hashtag metadata?
It returns a paginated set of public posts for the submitted hashtag. The Hashtag endpoint is the current content-discovery contract; there is no separate Hashtag Posts endpoint.
Can I retrieve every post ever published with a tag?
No API can guarantee a complete historical archive from Instagram's public hashtag surface. Paginate what Instagram currently exposes and store results over time if you need history.
Can I search hashtags by keyword?
No. This endpoint takes an exact tag. The User Search API searches accounts, not hashtag suggestions.
Related endpoints
APIs commonly paired with search hashtag.
Instagram Comments Scraper
Collect Instagram comments with author handles, like counts and timestamps. Cursor paginated, no login required.
Instagram Search API
Search public Instagram accounts by keyword and get them ranked the way the app ranks them. One call, no login.
Instagram Post Scraper
Paginated Instagram feed posts with likes, comments, captions and media URLs. Cursor-based pagination that does not drop items.
Back to the full Instagram API overview, or read the search hashtag endpoint documentation.