Search Instagram accounts, hashtags, and places
Search Instagram accounts, hashtags, and places by keyword (not posts — use instagram.search.popular.list; not profile discovery — use…
Headers
Get your API keyAPI key (`sfk_...`)
Search query text for Instagram accounts, hashtags, and places.
min 1 chars · max 512 chars
Endpoint-specific response payload.
Search query that was evaluated for this response.
Matching Instagram accounts.
Social platform for this account.
one of: instagram
Instagram username without the leading @.
min 1 chars
Public display name shown for the account, when available.
Profile image URL for the account, when available.
Whether Instagram marks the account as verified.
Canonical public Instagram profile URL.
min 1 chars
Instagram numeric user id as a string, when available.
Zero-based rank in this result list, when available.
≥ 0
Matching Instagram hashtags.
Instagram hashtag id as a string, when available.
Hashtag name without the leading #.
min 1 chars
Number of public posts tagged with this hashtag, when available.
≥ 0
Secondary label Instagram shows for this hashtag result, when available.
Canonical public Instagram hashtag explore URL.
min 1 chars
Zero-based rank in this result list, when available.
≥ 0
Matching Instagram places.
Instagram place id as a string, when available.
Place name, when available.
Place title shown in search results, when available.
Secondary place label such as a city or region, when available.
Facebook Places id associated with this location, when available.
Zero-based rank in this result list, when available.
≥ 0
Keyword suggestions from search.
Suggested search keyword.
min 1 chars
Zero-based rank in this result list, when available.
≥ 0
Metadata describing the request and billing outcome.
Unique request identifier for tracing this API call.
min 1 chars
Credits charged for this request.
≥ 0
Public API version that served the response.
one of: v1
True when served from shared response cache. Credits still apply (full endpoint price); Age header may be present.
Code example
curl "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/instagram/search?query=nike" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Responses
Instagram-native search results for the requested query.