API reference · Instagram

instagram/bulk/posts

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

Model IDinstagram/bulk/posts

Input Schema

5 parameters · 1 required · 4 optional

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`username`	array	Required	Insert the username or URL of any profile you want to get posts from. You can also paste the post URLs.
`resultsLimit`	integer	Optional	This is the maximum number of posts you want to scrape per profile. If you set it to 5, you'll get 5 posts for each profile you've included. This setting does not apply if you're scraping by post URLs. · Min: 1 · Max: 9007199254740991
`dataDetailLevel`	string	Optional	Choose the data package you want to extract. Please note the Detailed data are paid extra. · Options: basicData, detailedData · Default: "detailedData" basicDatadetailedData
`skipPinnedPosts`	boolean	Optional	Check if you do not want to save pinned posts. · 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/posts",
  "dataDetailLevel": "detailedData",
  "skipPinnedPosts": 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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