Instagram Search Popular

Get popular Instagram posts for a search topic.

GET/api/v1/instagram/search-popular

Alpha: this endpoint is new and its response fields may still change.

Costs 1 credit per request; failed requests are refunded. Authentication, the search_metadata envelope and error codes are the same as for every endpoint (see the API reference). Try it in the playground.

Parameters

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`query`required	string	Popular topic text or URL slug; spaces become hyphens.Up to 200 characters.
`cursor`	string	Opaque cursor returned by search-popular for the same query.Up to 8,192 characters.

Response

A JSON object with search_metadata (request id, credits used and remaining) and the result data: posts. Groups and fields depend on the content of each page, so treat every field as optional.

Examples

cURL

curl "https://serpfast.com/api/v1/instagram/search-popular?query=basketball" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERPFAST_KEY"

Node.js 18+

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  "query": "basketball"
});
const res = await fetch(`https://serpfast.com/api/v1/instagram/search-popular?${params}`, {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SERPFAST_KEY}` },
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

Python

import os, requests

params = {
  "query": "basketball"
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://serpfast.com/api/v1/instagram/search-popular",
    params=params,
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SERPFAST_KEY']}"},
    timeout=120,
)
print(res.json())