# Instagram Profile & Lead Bio Harvester with Emails (`candid_rookery/instagram-leads-bio-harvester`) Actor

Extract verified business and creator leads from public Instagram profiles with bio, emails, follower counts, and website URLs. Zero login required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/candid_rookery/instagram-leads-bio-harvester.md
- **Developed by:** [Dominator](https://apify.com/candid_rookery) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## ⚡ Instagram Profile & Lead Bio Harvester (with Verified Emails)

> **Extract high-value B2B and influencer leads from public Instagram profiles with direct contact emails, follower statistics, and external website links. 100% formatted for drag-and-drop cold outreach in Instantly, Smartlead, Apollo, and HubSpot.**

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### 🎯 Why This Harvester Over Competitors?

Most Instagram scrapers demand your personal IG account cookies or login credentials, which leads directly to Instagram action blocks and account bans. This Harvester is built for **growth marketers, B2B sales reps, and influencer agencies** who need reliable, scalable lead extraction without risk.

| Feature | Ordinary IG Scrapers | ⚡ This Harvester |
|---|---|---|
| **Account Required** | Demands personal IG login / session cookies | **100% Public & Serverless (Zero Login Required)** |
| **Shadowban Risk** | High (burns your proxy & accounts) | **Zero Risk (Serverless Cloud Execution)** |
| **Bio Email Extraction** | Misses obfuscated emails (e.g. `user [at] domain`) | **Deep Multi-Pattern Regex & Bio Parsing** |
| **External Link Crawling**| Ignores bio links or Linktree pages | **Deeply crawls Linktree & Websites for Emails** |
| **Cold Outreach Ready** | Messy nested arrays requiring cleanup | **Flat CSV columns ready for Instantly / Smartlead** |
| **Pricing Model** | Expensive monthly tiers ($49 - $99/mo) | **Pay-Per-Result Cloud Runs ($0.005/lead)** |

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### 🚀 Key Capabilities

- **Zero Login Required**: Runs 100% serverless in the cloud using rotated public user-agents. Never asks for your Instagram password, username, or session tokens.
- **Dual-Channel Email Discovery**:
  1. *Bio Extraction:* Scrapes business inquiries and personal emails directly from the user's bio text.
  2. *Website Enrichment:* Automatically traverses external bio URLs (company homepages, Linktree, Beacons) to discover contact emails.
- **Engagement & Audience Metrics**: Captures follower count, following count, total post count, account category tags, and verified badge status.
- **Auto-Generated Cold Email Hooks**: Generates tailored outreach opening lines based on account bio keywords and follower tier.

***

### 📥 Input Configuration

```json
{
  "usernames": [
    "hubspot",
    "shopify",
    "framer",
    "stripe"
  ],
  "extractWebsiteEmails": true,
  "maxProfiles": 50
}
```

***

### 📤 Output Format (Instant CSV / JSON Export)

```json
{
  "username": "hubspot",
  "full_name": "HubSpot",
  "bio": "Grow better with HubSpot. Software, resources, and community to help your business grow. Contact: press@hubspot.com",
  "follower_count": 540000,
  "following_count": 620,
  "post_count": 1420,
  "is_verified": true,
  "external_url": "https://hubspot.com",
  "primary_email": "press@hubspot.com",
  "all_emails": [
    "press@hubspot.com",
    "support@hubspot.com"
  ],
  "influencer_tier": "VIP Mega (500k+)",
  "cold_outreach_hook": "Hey HubSpot team, saw your massive community presence on Instagram...",
  "instantly_ready": true,
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-07T00:00:00Z"
}
```

***

### 💡 How to Launch an Influencer or B2B Outreach Campaign

1. **Input Usernames**: Enter your list of target creator or business handles (e.g. `shopify`, `webflow`, `linear`).
2. **Run Actor**: Cloud workers extract public bios and crawl external links in seconds.
3. **Download CSV**: Click **Export Dataset** -> **CSV**.
4. **Drag & Drop to Cold Outreach**: Upload directly into **Instantly.ai**, **Smartlead**, or **Apollo.io**. Map `primary_email` to Email and `username` to Handle.
5. **Convert**: Start receiving warm replies from verified brand decision-makers.

# Actor input Schema

## `usernames` (type: `array`):

List of Instagram usernames or profile URLs to scrape (without @).

## `extractWebsiteEmails` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, crawls the link in bio to extract business contact emails and social channels.

## `maxProfiles` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of profile records to extract.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "usernames": [
    "hubspot",
    "shopify"
  ],
  "extractWebsiteEmails": true,
  "maxProfiles": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

URL to the extracted verified Instagram leads dataset in JSON format

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "usernames": [
        "hubspot",
        "shopify"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("candid_rookery/instagram-leads-bio-harvester").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "usernames": [
        "hubspot",
        "shopify",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("candid_rookery/instagram-leads-bio-harvester").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "usernames": [
    "hubspot",
    "shopify"
  ]
}' |
apify call candid_rookery/instagram-leads-bio-harvester --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,candid_rookery/instagram-leads-bio-harvester"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/UhjXHhknrzMG85OJr/builds/XI92O5qSK9IZGZOya/openapi.json