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Instagram Get User Posts API
Get a user's recent posts with engagement metrics. Rate-limited — use proxy rotation for bulk. No auth needed.
Part of: Instagram Post Scraper API
How to call it
Send one POST to api.upapi.io/instagram-get-user-posts.post with your key in the X-Api-Key header and the parameters below as a JSON body. Each call spends 15 weighted units of your monthly quota. The operation times out after 30 seconds. Identical requests are served from cache for 600 seconds, unbilled.
POST https://api.upapi.io/instagram-get-user-posts.post
Instagram Get User Posts API reference
Request parameters
- count
- integer — Posts per page (max 33)
- maxId
- string — Pagination cursor (next_max_id from previous call)
- userId
- stringrequired — Instagram user PK (numeric ID, from get-user-profile)
- proxyUrl
- string — Optional proxy URL (recommended — endpoint rate-limits aggressively)
- sessionCookies
- string — JSON-serialized dict of web session cookies for authenticated reads
Response fields
- posts
- arrayrequired
- posts[].pk
- stringrequired
- posts[].caption
- string
- posts[].postUrl
- stringrequired
- posts[].takenAt
- integer
- posts[].likeCount
- integer
- posts[].mediaType
- integer
- posts[].shortcode
- stringrequired
- posts[].commentCount
- integer
- userId
- stringrequired
- success
- booleanrequired
- elapsedMs
- integerrequired
- fetchedAt
- stringrequired
- nextMaxId
- string
- moreAvailable
- booleanrequired
Example request and response
The example response is generated from this operation’s published output schema — it shows the shape and field names, not values from a recorded call.
{
"count": 12,
"userId": "example"
}{
"posts": [
{
"pk": "example",
"caption": "",
"postUrl": "example",
"takenAt": 0,
"likeCount": 0,
"mediaType": 1,
"shortcode": "example",
"commentCount": 0
}
],
"userId": "example",
"success": false,
"elapsedMs": 1,
"fetchedAt": "example",
"nextMaxId": "example",
"moreAvailable": false
}Code snippets
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.upapi.io/instagram-get-user-posts.post \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
-d '{ "count": 12, "userId": "example" }'JavaScript
const response = await fetch('https://api.upapi.io/instagram-get-user-posts.post', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"count": 12,
"userId": "example"
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Python
import requests
response = requests.post(
'https://api.upapi.io/instagram-get-user-posts.post',
headers={
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
},
json={
"count": 12,
"userId": "example"
},
)
print(response.json())Go
package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
payload := []byte(`{ "count": 12, "userId": "example" }`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.upapi.io/instagram-get-user-posts.post", bytes.NewBuffer(payload))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
client := &http.Client{}
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
var result map[string]any
json.Unmarshal(body, &result)
fmt.Println(result)
}PHP
<?php
$payload = json_encode([
'count' => 12,
'userId' => 'example',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://api.upapi.io/instagram-get-user-posts.post');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $payload,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
'Content-Type: application/json',
'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY',
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
var_dump($data);Ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'json'
uri = URI('https://api.upapi.io/instagram-get-user-posts.post')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == 'https'
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request['x-api-key'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
request.body = { "count": 12, "userId": "example" }.to_json
response = http.request(request)
puts JSON.parse(response.body)Java
import okhttp3.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import java.util.Map;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
String json = "{ \"count\": 12, \"userId\": \"example\" }";
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(json, MediaType.get("application/json"));
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url("https://api.upapi.io/instagram-get-user-posts.post")
.post(body)
.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
.addHeader("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
.build();
try (Response response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
Map<?, ?> result = mapper.readValue(response.body().string(), Map.class);
System.out.println(result);
}C#
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Text.Json;
using var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
var payload = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<object>("{ \"count\": 12, \"userId\": \"example\" }");
var response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync("https://api.upapi.io/instagram-get-user-posts.post", payload);
var result = await response.Content.ReadFromJsonAsync<JsonElement>();
Console.WriteLine(result);Frequently asked questions
How much does the Instagram Get User Posts API cost per call?
Each call spends 15 weighted units of your plan's monthly quota. Full pricing is at https://upapi.io/pricing.
How do I authenticate to the Instagram Get User Posts API?
Send your key in the X-Api-Key header. A free guest key is available without creating an account.
Are Instagram Get User Posts API responses cached?
Yes — identical requests are served from cache for 600 seconds, and a cache hit is not billed.