Use The World's Most Popular* Open Graph API to Scrape Instagram

Justin Furniss

November 23, 2021

2 min read

Female Software developer with 3 monitors.

First, a quick disclaimer: I have no idea if Opengraph.io is the world's most popular Opengraph API, but I do know what the world's most popular Instagram post is! Remember @world_record_egg?

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OpenGraph.io now supports Instagram! Simply paste the URL into our debug tool or follow the instructions for implementing Opengraph.io in your backend. Grab your JSON, like this:

{ "title": "world_record_egg on Instagram: \"Let's set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram. Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner\"", "description": "Let's set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram. Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner (18 million)! We got this ?#LikeTheEgg #EggSoldiers #EggGang view all 3,345,992 comments", "type": "photo", "image": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/s480x480/47692668_1958135090974774_6762833792332802352_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=zJhTQ2P1SskAX9FAtUL&tp=1&oh=540f66fdaa73d690d0fc45a5e58192b5&oe=5FF8F24C", "imageSecureUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/s480x480/47692668_1958135090974774_6762833792332802352_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=zJhTQ2P1SskAX9FAtUL&tp=1&oh=540f66fdaa73d690d0fc45a5e58192b5&oe=5FF8F24C", "imageWidth": 480, "imageHeight": 480, "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/BsOGulcndj-/", "site_name": "world_record_egg on Instagram", "profileUsername": "world_record_egg", "profileFollowers": 5700000, "articleLikes": 54925807, "articleComments": 3345992 }

Or automatically generate React components with your data:

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