Social media

Instagramapi alternatives

1 open-source project that already does this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

qeeqbox/social-analyzer23,764AGPL-3.0Web app, CLI, and API for finding and analyzing social media profiles across many platforms.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Hosted reliability, uptime guarantees and transparent provider-side rate limiting
Built-in MCP (agent) server and prebuilt agent/tool integrations
Prepaid credit billing UX and dashboard
Operational anti-abuse, provider integration fixes, and legal/terms handling

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Instagramapi, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.