Limits

Scope

• One hashtag per run. There is no multi-tag input.
• The recent tab only. There is no "top posts" mode.
• Recent posts, not history. The feed is newest-first with no way to seek to a past date, so reaching a window far in the past means walking forward through pages and will hit the page budget before it arrives.
• No comments, no follower data, no profile scraping, no stories.
• No email addresses or contact details, of anyone, ever.
• Individual carousel slide URLs are not returned — only the cover image.

The session is yours

• It cannot run without a session cookie. There is no unauthenticated path to Instagram's hashtag data.
• We do not supply, sell or rent Instagram accounts, and we do not provide proxies for rotating them.
• Expect the account you use to be rate limited and eventually actioned by Instagram. That is a property of the platform, not a fault in the actor. Use an account you are willing to lose.

What happens to your data

Posts are written to your dataset on your Apify account. This actor keeps no copy of them: it has no database, no storage of its own, and nothing it could hand to anyone. The session cookie you supply is a secret input handled by the Apify platform and is not written to the run log.

You decide what you collect and what you do with it. Instagram's terms, and the law that applies where you are, are yours to judge before you run it.

No warranty

The actor is provided as is and as available, with no warranty of accuracy, completeness, uninterrupted operation, or correction of defects. Instagram changes its platform without notice and can refuse, rate limit or action any account at any time. Whether the output is fit for what you intend is your judgement, on every run.

Questions

Write to instagram-hashtag-scraper@tiraisoft.com.