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Sideshift Scraper API (Instagram): per-op pagination keys, and profile-search follower_count is null in practice (2026-11)

Sideshift's Instagram scraper ops don't share one cursor. reels-search pages by integer page, while profile-search, hashtag-search and post-comments take cursor, timeline takes next_max_id and reels takes max_id; search does not page. profile-search returned follower_count null on every row, so pair it with Meta Business Discovery for follower counts.

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