curl --request POST \
  --url https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/instagram/post \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "url": "https://instagram.com/reel/DW-toGVj4I4/"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/instagram/post"

payload = { "url": "https://instagram.com/reel/DW-toGVj4I4/" }
headers = {
    "x-api-key": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({url: 'https://instagram.com/reel/DW-toGVj4I4/'})
};

fetch('https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/instagram/post', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/instagram/post",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'url' => 'https://instagram.com/reel/DW-toGVj4I4/'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "x-api-key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/instagram/post"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"url\": \"https://instagram.com/reel/DW-toGVj4I4/\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/instagram/post")
  .header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"url\": \"https://instagram.com/reel/DW-toGVj4I4/\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://app.sideshift.app/api/v1/scrape/instagram/post")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"url\": \"https://instagram.com/reel/DW-toGVj4I4/\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "posts": [
      {
        "id": "3872733397261451832",
        "title": "Let’s run that back. One more time...",
        "creator": "nasa",
        "platform": "instagram",
        "contentType": "reel",
        "postPage": "https://instagram.com/reel/DW-toGVj4I4/",
        "views": 24357059,
        "likes": 1245006,
        "comments": 10747,
        "shares": 0,
        "bookmarks": 0,
        "uploadedAt": 1775886028,
        "uploadedAtFormatted": "2026-04-11T05:40:28",
        "thumbnail": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/…/cover.jpg",
        "videoUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/…/reel.mp4",
        "hashtags": [],
        "region": null,
        "transcript": null,
        "topComments": null
      }
    ],
    "profile_pictures": {
      "nasa": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/…/profile.jpg"
    }
  },
  "request_id": "req_6f7a8b9c0d1e2f30",
  "upstream_calls": 1,
  "meta": {
    "credits_charged": 1,
    "credits_remaining": 9993
  }
}

{
  "error": "INVALID_INPUT",
  "message": "Invalid username: must match @?[a-zA-Z0-9._-]{1,100}",
  "field": "username",
  "reason": "must match @?[a-zA-Z0-9._-]{1,100}",
  "request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}

{
  "error": "UNAUTHORIZED",
  "message": "Scraper routes require an independent scraper key from the Scraper API dashboard.",
  "request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}

{
  "error": "INSUFFICIENT_SCRAPER_CREDITS",
  "message": "Insufficient scraper credits",
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}

{
  "error": "POST_NOT_FOUND",
  "message": "Post not found or unavailable.",
  "platform": "instagram",
  "identifier": "https://instagram.com/reel/XXXX/",
  "request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}

{
  "error": "PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE",
  "message": "Request body must be 32KB or smaller",
  "request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}

{
  "error": "SCRAPER_RATE_LIMITED",
  "message": "Scraper API rate limit exceeded",
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}

{
  "error": "SCRAPER_USAGE_FINALIZE_FAILED",
  "message": "Request could not be finalized. Your credits were refunded.",
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}

{
  "error": "UPSTREAM_ERROR",
  "message": "Data source failed. Your credits were refunded.",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}

{
  "error": "UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT",
  "message": "Data source timed out. Your credits were refunded.",
  "platform": "facebook",
  "request_id": "req_8f3c9a2b1d4e6f70"
}