Find Instagram reel creators
Search for reels, then enrich a limited number of distinct creators with public profile counts and, optionally, their account transparency country. Choose your page, creator, time and credit limits before running.
Download the bounded workflow
Download the Node.js workflow. It uses the public API with your own key. Set MONOCRAWL_API_KEY in your environment, then run this free estimate with Node.js 22 or newer:
node instagram-reel-creators.mjs '{"query":"workout routine","maxCredits":25,"maxPages":2,"maxCreators":2,"includeCountry":true,"estimateOnly":true}'Remove estimateOnly to execute. Every component gets a free price preview immediately before its call; X-Max-Credits caps that call and maxCredits caps the total. A cache hit can lower the actual charge. The estimate uses full component prices so it does not depend on a cache hit remaining available.
The default searches one page and does no creator lookups. maxPages accepts 1–5; maxCreators accepts 0–10. Each distinct handle is looked up once per run, including across pages. maxDurationSeconds defaults to 120 and accepts 1–300. Use the returned opaque cursor with the same query, date window and API key to continue.
For a broader reel-only search, explicitly request up to three pages with no creator lookups:
node instagram-reel-creators.mjs '{"query":"space exploration","maxPages":3,"maxCreators":0,"maxCredits":3,"estimateOnly":true}'Remove estimateOnly after reviewing the price. Pages can be short or overlap; the workflow removes repeated IDs and does not promise 30 distinct results. Each acquired page keeps its normal price. plays retains the source’s supplied play or view count, including zero, and stays null when unknown. Search coverage remains indexed and can lag new posts.
Component costs
| Step | When it runs | Current base price | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
instagram/search-reels | Once per acquired page | 1 credits | live · proven |
instagram/profile | Once per selected creator | 1 credits | live · proven |
instagram/about | Once per selected creator when country is requested | 10 credits | live · proven |
The maximum base estimate is pages × search price + creators × (profile price + optional country price). Country lookup has its own normal price, including when the country is missing or does not match your filter. The result reports a ledger, known charges and any credit ceiling retained for an uncertain paid outcome.
The workflow stops when it reaches its limits. It never retries a paid request automatically. If a response is lost, it holds that call’s entire ceiling, stops further paid calls and reports partial; inspect account usage before starting another run.
Country matching and missing values
includeCountry=true reads the creator’s public account transparency panel. Country means the source-reported account country; it does not establish filming location, nationality or a geographic search ranking. Profile counts and country stay null when missing. This workflow does not infer contact details from a biography.
Set creatorCountry to the full country label returned by the source, such as Spain. The workflow adds creator_country_match using an exact case-insensitive comparison. Unknown or unrequested country produces null. All reels are retained by default.
Use filterCountry=true with creatorCountry to keep matches only. The result separately counts other-country and unknown-country rows dropped. Creators beyond your lookup cap count as unknown; a filtered empty result does not mean that no creators exist in that country. Pagination and normal component charges are preserved.
Explore a reel’s sound
When the source provides it, audio_cluster_id groups uploads of the same sound and can feed instagram/audio-reels. A reel’s music can include the source’s title, artist, asset ID, duration, explicit flag and trending flag. Missing values stay null, and these observations can change over time.
An acquired audio page is a sample, not the sound’s lifetime reel count. A page length or missing total must not be used as a total-count metric. See metric semantics for the distinction between source counters and samples.
instagram/search-music finds tracks by title or artist and can return the source’s formatted Reels-count label and trend ranks. The formatted label is not an exact numeric count.