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How to Find Creators and Trends by Instagram Hashtag

A hashtag is a live, ranked feed of what is working in your niche and who is making it. Here is how to pull it into a table you can sort and export.

6 August 20265 min read
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A hashtag is a live feed of everyone talking about a topic, right now, in public. If you sell running shoes, the people posting under a running hashtag are your market, your creators and your competitors, all in one place. The problem is that scrolling a hashtag in the app shows you a slice, in no particular order, and you cannot save or sort any of it.

Pulling a hashtag as data fixes that. You give the tool a hashtag and get back the top posts and reels using it, each with its caption, engagement and a link to the creator. Sort by likes or plays and you have a ranked list of what is working, and who is making it. Here is how to use it.

What you can pull

  • Top posts and reels for any hashtag
  • Captions and the other hashtags used alongside it
  • Likes, comments and play counts
  • The account behind each post
  • A link to every original post

Why hashtags are a shortcut to your niche

Every niche has its hashtags, and the posts ranking under them are, by definition, the content that landed. That makes a hashtag pull two things at once: a trend report and a creator list. You see which formats and hooks are getting traction this week, and you get the handles of the people making them, ready to approach for a collaboration or add to a competitor watch list. It is the fastest way to go from "I want to market in this space" to a concrete list of what works and who matters.

How to pull a hashtag with Tooltap

The Instagram Hashtag Scraper takes the tag and does the rest.

  1. Enter the hashtags. Type one or more, without the hash if you like, one per line to cover several topics in a run.
  2. Set the number of posts you want back per hashtag. Start modest, then widen once you can see the right kind of content coming through.
  3. Run it. Top posts and reels come back as a table with captions, engagement and the account behind each.
  4. Sort or scan. Order by plays or likes to rank the content, or read the accounts column to build a creator shortlist.
  5. Export. Send it to CSV or push it onward for outreach or analysis.
Track a trend over time. Pull the same hashtag every week and watch which formats climb. Catching a format on the way up, rather than after it peaks, is often the whole game in social.

What people use this for

Doing this properly

The tool returns public posts that appear under a hashtag, the same content anyone browsing that tag can see, structured into a table on your instruction. You are charged only for the results that come back. Use the data for research, discovery and planning, and follow Instagram's terms and any privacy rules that apply when you reach out to the creators you find.

The tool

Instagram Hashtag Scraper

Find top posts and reels for any hashtag, captions, likes, plays and more.

Post authorCaptionLikes & commentsPlays / viewsImage / thumbnailPost URL & date
Open the Instagram Hashtag Scraper
1 credit per result. Your first 100 credits are free, no card needed.

Frequently asked questions

What is an Instagram hashtag scraper?

A tool that takes a hashtag and returns the top posts and reels using it as structured data, with captions, engagement and the account behind each, so you can rank and export what is working.

Can I find creators this way?

Yes. The account behind every post comes back in the results, so a hashtag pull doubles as a ranked list of creators making content in your niche right now.

Can I track more than one hashtag at once?

Yes. Add several hashtags, one per line, and the tool pulls each in the same run so you can compare topics side by side.

How current are the results?

You get the posts ranking under the hashtag at the time you run it, so pulling regularly is the way to track how a trend moves.

What does it cost?

One credit per result, and you get 100 free credits to start. A run that finds nothing costs nothing.