Social platforms

Get an Instagram hashtag · Instagram API

GET/instagram/hashtags/{tag}
$min $0.003

Returns an Instagram hashtag page summary: name, post count and related information. Returns `not_found` when the hashtag does not exist.

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Request
curl https://api.unifapi.com/instagram/hashtags/{tag} \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"

Parameters

tagpathrequired
Hashtag without the leading #.
Overview

This operation is part of the Instagram API in the social platforms category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.

Use it when a workflow needs Instagram public data alongside other social networks, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.

Common agent workflows

  • Look up public Instagram data for agents that need reliable open-web context.
  • Give an AI agent a stable Instagram data source without building a per-platform integration.
  • Normalize Instagram responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Response shape

Unified envelope, platform-native fields

  • Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
  • The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
  • A not-found or invalid-input condition uses the unified UnifAPI error shape, so callers do not need special handling for each source platform.

Response status codes

200400401402404429500502503

Billing

This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 3 credits ($0.003) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.

Errors and retries

Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.

Response fields

Fields in the data object

A successful Get an Instagram hashtag call returns one data object with these fields.

idstring | null
Hashtag id.
namestring | null
Tag name, without #.
media_countnumber | null
Posts using the tag. Null when Instagram doesn't report a real count.
is_trendingboolean | null
Whether Instagram marks it trending.
is_restrictedboolean | null
Whether Instagram restricts the tag, so its feed is empty (for example a tag it hides as sensitive). Null when this view doesn't say.
urlstring | null
Public tag page URL.
Related endpoints

More Instagram operations

Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.