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Instagram Downloader API

Photos, carousels, reels and stories, resolved into direct links. One call gives you every file in a post, and the links point at Instagram's own CDN, so whoever you hand them to fetches from Instagram rather than from us.

Media

Send any public post, reel or IGTV link. A single photo comes back as one file, a carousel as all of them, a reel as the video with its audio already in it.

GEThttps://api.gapi.dev/v2/instagram/media

Parameters

urlrequiredstring

Public Instagram post, reel or IGTV link. /p/, /reel/, /reels/ and /tv/ all work, with or without the username in the path.

e.g. https://www.instagram.com/p/DbYaLffE2DD/

Responses

{
  "platform": "instagram",
  "type": "album",
  "title": "Suit up!\n\nThese photos show NASA astronaut candidates…",
  "author": null,
  "thumbnail": null,
  "duration": null,
  "media": [
    { "type": "image", "url": "https://…", "quality": null, "ext": null },
    { "type": "image", "url": "https://…", "quality": null, "ext": null },
    { "type": "image", "url": "https://…", "quality": null, "ext": null }
  ]
}

Stories

What an account has up right now.

GEThttps://api.gapi.dev/v2/instagram/stories

Parameters

usernamerequiredstring

Username, @handle or profile URL — nasa, @nasa and instagram.com/nasa all work.

e.g. nasa

Responses

{
  "platform": "instagram",
  "type": "album",
  "title": null,
  "author": null,
  "thumbnail": null,
  "duration": null,
  "media": [
    { "type": "image", "url": "https://…", "quality": null, "ext": null },
    { "type": "video", "url": "https://…", "quality": null, "ext": null },
    { "type": "image", "url": "https://…", "quality": null, "ext": null }
  ]
}

Try it

GEThttps://api.gapi.dev/v2/instagram/media
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curl -G 'https://api.gapi.dev/v2/instagram/media' \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DbYaLffE2DD/' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY'

What each link gives you

You sendtypemedia contains
instagram.com/p/… with one photoimagethe single image at full resolution
instagram.com/p/… with severalalbumevery item in the carousel, photos and videos alike
instagram.com/reel/…videothe video with its audio already muxed in
instagram.com/tv/…videothe same as a reel; IGTV is a reel now
a username, to /storiesalbumevery story live at that moment

What it does not do

Private accounts, and anything you would have to follow someone to see. Instagram shows those to a signed-in follower and nobody else, and this API does not pretend otherwise. Highlights, tagged posts and a user's post history are not here yet.

Field-by-field detail is on the response shape page.

Code examples

The same request in four languages. Swap in the key from your dashboard and it runs as it is.

curl -G 'https://api.gapi.dev/v2/instagram/media' \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DbYaLffE2DD/' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: gapi_live_your_key_here'

One call, one request

A carousel with ten slides costs the same as a single photo: one charge against your balance. You pay for calls, not for files.

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