InsightSocial APIInstagram Search Popular API reference
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Get a free API keycurl "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/instagram/search/popular?query=basketball" \ -H "x-api-key: $INSIGHTSOCIAL_API_KEY"
Returns popular Instagram posts matching a keyword, each with caption, play count, permalink, thumbnail, and the owner's username.
Use it to sample what is popular for a topic; search/reels is the choice when you want a keyword reel feed instead.
Metered: 10–130 credits. We reserve the ceiling when the call starts and charge what it actually used when it finishes.
Paginates by cursor: see Pagination.
Authorization
apiKey Your key from the dashboard. It starts with isk_.
In: header
Query Parameters
Keyword or topic to find popular Instagram posts.
Cursor from the previous response to fetch the next page.
Set to engagement (one token only) to fill post.engagement.likes, .comments, .shares, .views, post.published_at and post.content.duration_seconds on every row in this one call.
Value in
- "engagement"
Take the top N rows of the page (1 to 12) after the search has run. It is not a page size: next_cursor still advances past the full page, so rows beyond N on this page are not returned by the next page.
1 <= value <= 12Only rows published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Rows older than it are left off each page. This list is not in date order, so the walk does not stop at the date: keep following next_cursor, and each page costs what a page costs even when every row on it is filtered out. A row with no date is kept.
Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept.
Set to 1 to get the price of this call without making it: data.dry_run carries credits_min and credits_max. Nothing is charged.
Value in
- "1"
Response Body
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curl -X GET "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/instagram/search/popular?query=string"{ "success": true, "platform": "string", "endpoint": "string", "schema_version": "2", "pagination": { "next_cursor": "string", "has_more": true, "page_size": 0, "stopped_at": "since" }, "unavailable": [ "string" ], "credits_used": 0, "credits_remaining": 0, "request_id": "string", "cached": true, "idempotent_replay": true, "charge_reason": "string", "free_call": true, "data": { "items": [ { "post": { "id": "string", "url": "http://example.com", "kind": "string", "content": { "text": "string", "media_urls": [ "http://example.com" ], "thumbnail_url": "http://example.com", "duration_seconds": 0 }, "author": { "id": "string", "username": "string", "display_name": "string", "avatar_url": "http://example.com", "verified": true }, "engagement": { "views": 0, "likes": 0, "comments": 0, "shares": 0, "saves": 0 }, "flags": { "nsfw": true, "spoiler": true, "pinned": true, "deleted": true, "likes_hidden": true, "comments_hidden": true, "shares_hidden": true, "views_hidden": true, "saves_hidden": true }, "published_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z", "language": "string", "ext": { "property1": null, "property2": null } } } ], "total": 0, "truncated": true, "ext": { "property1": null, "property2": null } }}Search › Music GET
Returns audio tracks matching a keyword, each with artist, title, audio and cover artwork URLs, duration, and usage details.
Search › Profiles GET
Returns public profiles matching a keyword, each with username, display name, bio, follower and following counts, post count, and profile URL.