Social platforms

List comments on an Instagram post · Instagram API

GET/instagram/posts/{shortcode}/comments

$min $0.01

Return the comments on an Instagram post by its shortcode, as a cursor-paginated list. Useful for analyzing audience response and sentiment around a post.

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Request

curl https://api.unifapi.com/instagram/posts/{shortcode}/comments \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"

Parameters

shortcodepathrequired
cursorquery
sortquery: One of: popular, newest.

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

Pull public Instagram comment threads for sentiment, moderation, or audience-research agents.
Collect top-level discussion around a post while preserving pagination and billing metadata.
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

List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
The operation has a 10 credits ($0.01) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.

Response status codes

200400401402404429500502503

Billing

This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 10 credits ($0.01) 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 on each record in data

A successful List comments on an Instagram post call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields.

idstring
userobject | null: Lightweight Instagram user shape returned inside lists (followers, post authors, comment authors). Lacks counts; call /users/{id} for the full profile.
textstring
created_atnumber
like_countnumber
child_comment_countnumber
has_translationboolean
has_likedboolean
parent_comment_idstring | null

Run it

Agents & Skills built on Instagram

You rarely call List comments on an Instagram post by hand. These prebuilt agents and skills already read Instagram data inside Claude or Codex — start from one of them, or call this endpoint yourself.