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Migrate from HikerAPI to herascrape in one paste: a coding-agent prompt that rewrites your Instagram API calls.
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hikerapi-to-herascrape is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by herascrape. Migrate from HikerAPI to herascrape in one paste: a coding-agent prompt that rewrites your Instagram API calls. It has 50 GitHub stars.
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Move your HikerAPI integration to herascrape, the HikerAPI alternative, in one paste. Same Instagram data, returned as Instagram's own JSON, so your parsing code does not change, behind a smaller, cheaper, faster API.
/v1,
/v2, /v3, /gql, /g1, /g2 and /a2. herascrape collapses each to one
RESTful path and picks the source for you.v1 / v2
payloads already put them; list responses gain an
{items, next_cursor, has_more} wrapper.See the full herascrape vs HikerAPI comparison.
Paste PROMPT.md into your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, or
any agent that reads your repository and fetches URLs) and point it at your
project. It reads the herascrape docs itself and rewrites every HikerAPI call
(base URL, auth header, endpoint paths, pagination, and the HikerAPI SDK),
flagging anything it cannot map instead of guessing.
Three mechanical edits, then the paths.
| HikerAPI | herascrape | |
|---|---|---|
| Base URL | api.hikerapi.com |
api.herascrape.com |
| Auth header | x-access-key |
x-api-key |
| Paging | a different param per endpoint | one opaque cursor |
- GET https://api.hikerapi.com/v2/user/followers?user_id=25025320&page_id=ABC
- x-access-key: <key>
+ GET https://api.herascrape.com/users/25025320/followers?cursor=ABC
+ x-api-key: <key>
- GET https://api.hikerapi.com/v2/media/info/by/code?code=B4XpqViUFUI&safe_int=true
+ GET https://api.herascrape.com/posts/B4XpqViUFUI
- GET https://api.hikerapi.com/v2/user/by/username?username=instagram
- GET https://api.hikerapi.com/v2/user/stories/by/username?username=instagram
+ GET https://api.herascrape.com/users/username/instagram # returns pk, cache it
+ GET https://api.herascrape.com/users/25025320/stories
Using the HikerAPI Python SDK? Each call maps cleanly onto one herascrape method (several HikerAPI methods often collapse onto the same one):
- cl.user_by_username_v2("instagram")
+ client.user_by_username(username="instagram")
The full translation tables live in the migration guide; the prompt reads them so you do not have to.
An honest list, so you find out here rather than in production:
/search/places covers the common case.The guide sorts every HikerAPI endpoint into translates-directly, translates-elsewhere, no-equivalent, or removed-by-Instagram.
herascrape is not affiliated with, authorized, maintained, or endorsed by Instagram or Meta. Instagram is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.