# Instagram Profile Country API (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/instagram/profile-country)

> Returns the country an Instagram account declares on its "About this account" panel (`author.ext.country`), the month it joined (`author.ext.account_created`), its username, its profile link and its verified flag, for 1 credit. Pass the numeric account id as `user_id`: every Instagram search row carries it as `post.ext.author_id`, and /v1/instagram/profile/about returns it as `author.id`. Country is the account's own declared country, not where a post was filmed and not the country you are calling from, and it is null when the account shows no transparency panel. This endpoint reads the panel only, so followers, bio, avatar, posts count and the public email and phone are not on it; for those, call /v1/instagram/profile/about with the username. A username is refused at no charge with a pointer to /v1/instagram/profile/about. Only one source serves this read, so there is no second source to fall back to when it is unavailable.

TL;DR: `GET /v1/instagram/profile/country` costs 1 credit per call. A refused username or a missing `user_id` costs nothing. and returns SocialCrawl's unified JSON schema. Single x-api-key auth, 100 free credits on signup.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `user_id` | no | The numeric Instagram account id, for example `post.ext.author_id` from a search row or `author.id` from /v1/instagram/profile/about. A username is refused at no charge. |

## Code example

```bash
curl -G "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/instagram/profile/country" \
  --data-urlencode "user_id=25025320" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_YOUR_API_KEY"
```

See the full Instagram API: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/instagram

## Pricing

- Standard endpoints: 1 credit per call
- Advanced endpoints: 5 credits per call
- Premium endpoints: 10 credits per call
- 100 free credits on signup, no credit card required. Cached responses cost 0 credits. Credit packs never expire.
- Full pricing: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing