What are Instagram's API rate limits?
Instagram's Graph API rate limit is dynamic: an app can make up to 4,800 calls times the number of impressions an account received, measured over a rolling 24 hour window. Higher-traffic accounts get a higher ceiling, so the cap moves as engagement changes rather than sitting at a fixed number.
That formula makes capacity planning hard, because a low-impression account has a low cap. Production access also requires Business Verification plus Meta App Review before you can read real users' data at all.
SocialCrawl hides that entirely behind the credit model: one call to the Instagram Profile API costs one credit and returns the unified schema, with no impression math and no App Review queue.
Do it with SocialCrawl
Read an Instagram profile without the impression-based cap
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/instagram/profile?handle=nasa" \
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