📸 INSTAGRAM PROFILE SCRAPER

Scrape Instagram profiles in bulk — fast, accurate, and structured.

Extract follower counts, bios, post counts, verification status, business categories, external links, and more from any public Instagram profile.

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💡 USE CASES

Who	Why
Marketers	Research influencers and benchmark competitors at scale
Sales teams	Build enriched prospect lists with real social proof data
Recruiters	Identify and vet creators or brand ambassadors
Analysts & researchers	Collect public profile data for studies and trend analysis
Developers	Power apps and dashboards with live Instagram profile data

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✅ WHAT IT DOES

• Scrapes single or multiple Instagram profiles in one run
• Extracts rich profile data: followers, following, posts, bio, verification, business info, and links
• Returns clean, structured JSON output ready for export or analysis

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🚀 HOW TO RUN

1. Open the Input tab
2. Paste the Instagram usernames you want to scrape (with or without @)
3. Optionally set a Max Results limit
4. Click Start
5. View and export results from the Dataset tab

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⚙️ INPUT PARAMETERS

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
usernames	array	✅ Yes	Instagram usernames to scrape. Accepts @username or username.
cookies	array	✅ Yes	One or more Instagram session cookie sets. See format below.
maxResults	number	❌ No	Max number of profiles to scrape. Defaults to all provided usernames.

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SAMPLE INPUT

{
    "usernames": [
        "cristiano",
        "natgeo",
        "nasa"
    ],
    
    "maxResults": 10000
}

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📦 SAMPLE OUTPUT

Each scraped profile is stored as a structured record in the Apify dataset:

[
    {
        "id": "173560420",
        "username": "cristiano",
        "fullName": "Cristiano Ronaldo",
        "biography": "✌️",
        "followersCount": 635000000,
        "followsCount": 568,
        "postsCount": 3847,
        "highlightReelCount": 12,
        "verified": true,
        "private": false,
        "isBusinessAccount": true,
        "businessCategoryName": "Athlete",
        "categoryName": "Athlete",
        "joinedRecently": false,
        "hasChannel": true,
        "externalUrl": "https://www.cristianoronaldo.com",
        "externalUrls": [
            {
                "title": "Official Site",
                "url": "https://www.cristianoronaldo.com",
                "link_type": "external"
            }
        ],
        "profilePicUrl": "https://instagram.com/...",
        "profilePicUrlHD": "https://instagram.com/...",
        "url": "https://www.instagram.com/cristiano/",
        "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/cristiano/"
    }
]

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OUTPUT FIELD REFERENCE

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Instagram user ID
username	string	Instagram handle
fullName	string	Display name on the profile
biography	string	Profile bio text
followersCount	number	Number of followers
followsCount	number	Number of accounts followed
postsCount	number	Total posts published
highlightReelCount	number	Number of story highlights
verified	boolean	Whether the account has a verified badge
private	boolean	Whether the account is private
isBusinessAccount	boolean	Whether it's a business or creator account
businessCategoryName	string	Business category (e.g. "Athlete", "Brand")
categoryName	string	Profile category label
joinedRecently	boolean	Whether the account was created recently
hasChannel	boolean	Whether the account has a broadcast channel
externalUrl	string	Primary link in bio
externalUrls	array	All bio links with titles and types
profilePicUrl	string	Profile picture URL (standard)
profilePicUrlHD	string	Profile picture URL (high resolution)
url	string	Full Instagram profile URL

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💳 PRICING & LIMITS

Tier	Limit
Free trial	Up to 10 profiles
Paid	up to 30k profiles

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🛟 SUPPORT

Have a question or running into an issue?

• 📩 Email: [boneswill697@gmail.com]
• 🐛 Bugs: Open a ticket in the Issues tab on this Actor's page