Extract top Instagram comments — text, timestamps, likes, commenter details, and thread sizes — from post or reel URLs
Sample
Here's a sample run extracting top comments from an Instagram post, showing the exact schema and results you can expect.
| # | Post URL | Comment | Comment URL | Commented At | Likes | Comment Replies | Commenter Username | Commenter Name | Commenter URL | Commenter Verified | Commenter Private |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 💙 | 2026-06-11T09:23:46Z | 3,303 | 11 | unicef | UNICEF | true | false | |||
2 | 💙❤️ | 2026-06-11T12:36:12Z | 18 | 0 | jah.ice4 | Unkle Phill | false | false | |||
3 | ❤️❤️ | 2026-06-12T16:25:10Z | 4 | 0 | pride_895 | pretty_Pride🦈 | false | true | |||
4 | Young legend recognizes the legend.
Respect.❤️ | 2026-06-11T08:40:25Z | 2,072 | 2 | kovan_navin | Kovan_navin | false | false | |||
5 | 💙❤️ | 2026-06-12T15:35:30Z | 4 | 0 | lamineyamalfanbarcelona | Lamine Yamal | false | false | |||
6 | ❤️❤️💙💙 | 2026-06-13T16:45:37Z | 4 | 0 | mariamatiyas | Maria matiyas | false | true | |||
7 | No way we had Barcelona page posting Lamine doing the "siuuu" haha, great partnership btw, proud of you.👏❤️ | 2026-06-11T08:53:58Z | 541 | 3 | yara.culer | — | false | false | |||
8 | 💙❤️🔥🔥🔥 | 2026-06-13T13:02:21Z | 2 | 0 | _abdushukurov_l7 | odilbek🍁 | false | false | |||
9 | Diamond!🔥 | 2026-06-11T08:48:12Z | 17 | 0 | football.momentums | Football momentum | false | false | |||
10 | Unicef barca is the best team to have ever kicked a ball | 2026-06-11T08:51:06Z | 4,721 | 0 | laflame_jaydennn | Victor Jayden | false | false |
Playground
Advanced parameters are collapsed below.
curl -X POST https://api.mindcase.co/v1/data/instagram/comments/run \
-H "Authorization: Bearer mk_live_YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"params": {
"urls": ""
}
}'Overview
Instagram Comments extracts the top comments on any post or reel — text, timestamp, likes, and the commenter's handle, name, verification, and privacy — plus the size of each comment's reply thread.
Social media managers use this to track community sentiment on brand posts. Data scientists use it to build training sets for NLP models or to analyze engagement patterns across competitor accounts.
Cost
$1.60 per 1,000 comments. Each row returned counts as one comment. The total row count is calculated by multiplying the number of post URLs by the max comments requested per post. Failed runs don't count.
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Examples
A few common ways teams put Instagram Comments API to work — copy a prompt below to try it yourself.
Export comment text to analyze how audiences react to specific product launches or brand announcements.
Compare the quality and volume of discussions across multiple influencer partnerships to measure campaign impact.
Track specific keywords or questions within the comment sections of high-traffic posts to identify customer pain points.
Identify active users and top contributors in a competitor's community by analyzing comment frequency and verified status.
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