Instagram Profile

Retrieves comprehensive public Instagram profile information including biography, bio links, follower and following counts, verification status, and profile picture URLs.

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Instagram Profile
GET /v1/instagram/profile

Retrieves comprehensive public Instagram profile information including biography, bio links, follower and following counts, verification status, and profile picture URLs.

Authentication: x-api-key
Example URL: https://api.datawake.ai/v1/instagram/profile?handle=jane

Parameters:
- handle (query · string · required) = jane
- trim (query · boolean · optional)

Overview

WakeScrap exposes this Instagram endpoint as a live-data API. The platform keeps the documented request and response shape stable while unifying auth, request tracking, and credits billing.

Retrieves comprehensive public Instagram profile information including biography, bio links, follower and following counts, verification status, and profile picture URLs. Also returns recent timeline posts with engagement metrics such as likes, comments, and video view counts, plus a list of related profiles. Useful for account overview, audience analysis, or discovering similar creators.

Required params: handle.

Headers

x-api-key string required

Your Wake API access key.

Example:

YOUR_API_KEY

Query Parameters

handle string required

Instagram handle

Example:

jane

trim boolean

Set to true to get a trimmed response


              curl 'https://api.datawake.ai/v1/instagram/profile?handle=jane' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'


              const response = await fetch("https://api.datawake.ai/v1/instagram/profile?handle=jane", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
  },
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);


              import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/instagram/profile?handle=jane",
    headers={
        "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Accept": "application/json",
    },
)

print(response.json())


              $ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/instagram/profile?handle=jane",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY',
        'Accept: application/json',
    ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;


              client := &http.Client{}
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/instagram/profile?handle=jane", nil)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")

resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))


              HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://api.datawake.ai/v1/instagram/profile?handle=jane"))
    .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .header("Accept", "application/json")
    .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();

HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
    .send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

System.out.println(response.body());


              {
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "user": {
      "biography": "Building docs.datawake.ai | The easiest way to get public social media data at scale",
      "bio_links": [
        {
          "title": "...",
          "lynx_url": "...",
          "url": "...",
          "link_type": "..."
        }
      ],
      "biography_with_entities": {
        "raw_text": "Building docs.datawake.ai | The easiest way to get public social media data at scale",
        "entities": []
      },
      "external_url": "https://x.com/adrian_horning_",
      "edge_followed_by": {
        "count": 24555
      },
      "fbid": "17841402777077586",
      "edge_follow": {
        "count": 110
      },
      "full_name": "Adrian Horning",
      "id": "2700692569",
      "is_business_account": true,
      "is_professional_account": true,
      "business_address_json": {
        "city_name": "Austin, Texas",
        "city_id": 106224666074625,
        "latitude": 30.26759,
        "longitude": -97.74299,
        "street_address": null,
        "zip_code": null
      },
      "category_name": "Entrepreneur",
      "is_private": false,
      "is_verified": false,
      "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/430086429_362220943449758_2621012714660517106_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s150x150_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=...",
      "profile_pic_url_hd": "https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/430086429_362220943449758_2621012714660517106_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s320x320_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=...",
      "username": "adrianhorning",
      "...": "4 more fields"
    }
  }
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "One or more required parameters are missing or invalid."
  }
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "unauthorized",
    "message": "Invalid or missing x-api-key header."
  }
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "insufficient_credits",
    "message": "This request requires available credits before execution."
  }
}