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

Justin Furniss

November 23, 2021

2 min read

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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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Most liked egg post on Instagram

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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