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instagram/bulk/content-extract

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POSThttps://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run

Model IDinstagram/bulk/content-extract

Input Schema

8 parameters · 0 required · 8 optional

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`search`	string	Optional	Provide a search query which will be used to search Instagram for profiles, hashtags or places.
`directUrls`	string[]	Optional	Add one or more Instagram URLs to scrape. The field is optional, but you need to either use this field or search query below.
`searchType`	string	Optional	What type of pages to search for (you can look for hashtags, profiles or places). · Options: user, hashtag, place · Default: "hashtag" userhashtagplace
`resultsType`	string	Optional	You can choose to get posts, comments or details from Instagram URLs. Comments can only be scraped from post URLs.❗Please note that the stories type has been deprecated. It used to return reels data, which wasn’t aligned with its purpose. Please use reels instead. · Options: posts, comments, details, mentions, reels, stories · Default: "posts" postscommentsdetailsmentionsreelsstories
`searchLimit`	integer	Optional	How many search results (hashtags, users or places) should be returned. · Min: 1 · Max: 250
`resultsLimit`	integer	Optional	How many posts or comments (max 50 comments per post) you want to scrape from each Instagram URL. If you set this to 1, you will get a single post from each page. · Min: 1 · Max: 9007199254740991
`addParentData`	boolean	Optional	Only for feed items - add data source to results, i.e. for profile posts metadata is profile, for tag posts metadata is hashtag · Default: false
`onlyPostsNewerThan`	string	Optional	Limit how far back to the history the scraper should go. The date should be in YYYY-MM-DD or full ISO absolute format or in relative format e.g. 1 days, 2 months, 3 years. All time values are taken in UTC timezone

Output Schema

Field	Type	Description
`id`	string	Unique identifier for the generation task
`status`	string	Task status: pending, running, completed, failed, timeout
`model`	string	Model used for the generation
`outputs`	array	Array of output items
`outputs[].url`	string	URL of the generated artifact
`outputs[].content_type`	string	MIME type (e.g. image/png, video/mp4)
`error`	object \| null	Error details if failed, null on success
`error.type`	string	Machine-readable error type code
`error.message`	string	Human-readable error description

Async Workflow

This model uses asynchronous execution. Submit a request and poll for the result.

Submit — POST to /v1/run, receive an id
Poll — GET /v1/run/{id} until status is completed, failed, or timeout
Retrieve — Read outputs from the completed response

Code Examples

Ready-to-run snippets

# Step 1: Submit
curl -X POST https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "instagram/bulk/content-extract",
  "searchType": "hashtag",
  "resultsType": "posts",
  "addParentData": false,
  "prompt": "a beautiful sunset over mountains"
}'

# Step 2: Poll result (replace <id>)
curl https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/<id> \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

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