PyRank
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instagrapi

🔥 The fastest and powerful Python library for Instagram Private API 2026 with HikerAPI SaaS
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instagrapi has 1.6M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 2.18.3 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2020.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.

It is built on top of pillow, pycryptodomex and pydantic. It is used by 23 tracked packages, including warp-beacon, instagram-cli and blog-coeur.

GitHub topics include instagram-api, instagram and instagram-client.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (subzeroid/instagrapi) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
76.5K
Week
450.4K
Month
1.6M
Stars
6.4K
Forks
936
Issues
3
Version
2.18.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
83
Adoption
100
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
0 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,600,403
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,600,403
Stars
6,436
Stars per 1k downloads
4.02
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
• Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
64,343
Month daily avg
53,347
Momentum
+20.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
0 days ago
Total releases
390
Releases/year
65.7
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
120
Monthly downloads
1,600,403
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
55
 
Issue Burden
0.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
12.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 66.6K
Windows 1.8K
macOS 744

Python Versions

3.11
33.7% 23.3K
3.10
20.4% 14.1K
3.12
19.9% 13.7K
3.13
19.1% 13.2K
3.14
6.9% 4.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
48.4K
2. CA CA
11.6K
3. DE DE
4.4K
4. IN IN
767
5. TR TR
679
6. SA SA
483
7. FI FI
361
8. SG SG
314
9. ID ID
306
10. BR BR
303

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
July 30, 2020
Last Release
17 hr ago
Last Commit
17 hr ago
Latest Version
2.18.3
Total Releases
390
Contributors
120
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
instagram private api instagram-private-api instagram api instagram-api instagram instagram-scraper instagram-client instagram-stories instagram-feed instagram-reels instagram-insights downloader uploader videos photos albums igtv reels stories pictures instagram-user-photos instagram-photos instagram-metadata instagram-downloader instagram-uploader instagram-note
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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