I use HikerAPI every week to pull the latest reels from a list of Instagram accounts in my niche: views, date, caption and link. From that I compute each account's median views and flag the reels that do three times better than usual. It is a plain REST API with one header for the key, so plugging it into my own scripts took very little time, and paying per request fits a small weekly workload. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To get an account's reels I first have to look up the user by username, then call the media endpoint with the user id. Two calls per account is fine, but a single endpoint that takes the username directly would make the weekly run simpler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.