/v1/instagram/search/profiles

GET

Search Instagram Profiles

Find ranked profiles with Instagram search, without Google. No pagination; extra details for the first 10 results are best-effort.

Credit cost	Default: 1 credit How charges are determined Cost is decided per call, not per endpoint: the same operation can cost different amounts depending on what it returns. A call that fails costs 0 credits. A result served from cache costs 0 credits. `default` is the cost when no rule matches. Rules are evaluated in order and the first whose conditions all hold wins. A `when` condition is one of: `param` (the request parameter is true), `outcome` (the classifier's outcome), `empty` / `nonEmpty` (a response field is empty and absent, or a non-empty array or string), `flag` (a response field is exactly true). A cost of `{ perStartedMinute: n, of: [fields] }` is n x max(1, ceil(seconds / 60)), so even a short result bills at least one minute.
Cache support	Not specified in the published contract.
Pagination	No explicit pagination metadata in the published contract. Consult the parameters and response fields below.

Parameters

Name	Location / required	Schema
`query` Profile name or username to search for.	query / required	`string`

Request examples

Replace placeholder values and supply your own API key. For operations with a request body, populate the body using the schema above.

cURL

curl --request GET 'https://api.fetchproof.com/v1/instagram/search/profiles?query=YOUR_QUERY' \
  --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

JavaScript

const response = await fetch("https://api.fetchproof.com/v1/instagram/search/profiles?query=YOUR_QUERY", {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: { 'x-api-key': process.env.FETCHPROOF_API_KEY }
});
console.log(await response.text());

Python

import os
import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.fetchproof.com/v1/instagram/search/profiles?query=YOUR_QUERY",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["FETCHPROOF_API_KEY"]})
print(response.text)

Responses

200Success. Envelope: success / credits_remaining / credits_charged.

application/json

object

successrequired

boolean

credits_remainingrequired

integer

credits_chargedrequired

integer

queryrequired

string

profilesrequired

array

Array items

object

idrequired

string

usernamerequired

string

full_namerequired

string

biographyrequired

string

bio_linksrequired

array

Array items

object

image_urlrequired

string

is_pinnedrequired

boolean

link_idrequired

string

link_typerequired

string

lynx_urlrequired

string

media_accent_color_hexrequired

string

media_typerequired

string

titlerequired

string

urlrequired

string

creation_sourcerequired

string

external_urlrequired

string

is_privaterequired

boolean

is_verifiedrequired

boolean

is_business_accountrequired

boolean

is_professional_accountrequired

boolean

category_namerequired

string

profile_pic_urlrequired

string

follower_countrequired

integer

following_countrequired

integer

media_countrequired

integer

urlrequired

string

matched_fromrequired

string

google_titlerequired

null

google_descriptionrequired

null

cursorrequired

null

sourceoptional

string

401Invalid or missing x-api-key

402No credits remaining

403Upstream denied (age gate, audience controls)

404Resource or endpoint not found

429Rate limited