Social platforms

Browse Instagram's recommended Reels feed · Instagram API

GET/instagram/reels/recommended

$min $0.01

Return posts from Instagram's algorithmic recommended Reels feed, as a paginated list. Useful for sampling trending short-form video and discovering surfacing creators.

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Request

curl https://api.unifapi.com/instagram/reels/recommended \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"

Parameters

cursorquery

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 10 credits ($0.01) 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 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 Browse Instagram's recommended Reels feed call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields (12 of 20 shown — the docs list the full schema).

idstring: Instagram URL slug (`shortcode`). Path parameter for /instagram/posts/{id}/... endpoints.
shortcodestring
media_idstring
media_typenumber: Source media_type: 1 = image, 2 = video, 8 = carousel
product_typestring: Source product_type: 'feed' (image/photo), 'clips' (reel), 'carousel_container', 'igtv', etc.
taken_atnumber: Unix-seconds timestamp.
captionstring
accessibility_captionstring | null
image_urlstring: Largest available preview image (cover, for video/carousel).
video_urlstring: Highest-quality video URL when applicable; empty string otherwise.
like_countnumber
comment_countnumber

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Agents & Skills built on Instagram

You rarely call Browse Instagram's recommended Reels feed 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.