Instagram User Profile Scraper

Look up a single Instagram user by username or profile URL. Returns biography, follower / following counts, media count, business category, external link, bio links, contact info, verification status, and "About this account" info (country the account is based in, join date, verification date, former usernames). Provide exactly one of username or url.

Features

• Real-time Instagram data — results are fetched live at run time, never cached or stale
• No login, cookies, or proxy configuration needed — just provide the input and run
• Each result is pushed as a separate dataset item, exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel
• Fast: a typical run finishes in seconds

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
username	string	no	Instagram username, with or without leading @ (max 100 characters). Provide either username or url.
url	string	no	Instagram profile URL, e.g. https://instagram.com/natgeo (max 500 characters). Provide either username or url.

Pricing

This Actor is billed per run — a flat $0.006 per run.

• One run returns all matching results for your input, and costs $0.006 — whether it comes back with one result or hundreds.
• You’re only charged when a run succeeds. Failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "user": {
    "username": "natgeo",
    "full_name": "National Geographic",
    "user_id": "787132",
    "biography": "Step into wonder and find your inner explorer with National Geographic \ud83c\udf0e",
    "follower_count": 274777448,
    "following_count": 194,
    "media_count": 31593,
    "is_verified": true,
    "is_private": false,
    "is_business": true,
    "category": "",
    "external_url": "http://visitstore.bio/natgeo",
    "bio_links": [
      {
        "url": "http://visitstore.bio/natgeo",
        "title": ""
      }
    ],
    "profile_pic_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/.../photo.jpg",
    "profile_pic_url_hd": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/.../photo_hd.jpg",
    "public_email": "",
    "public_phone_number": "",
    "account_based_in": "United States",
    "date_joined": "November 2010",
    "date_joined_timestamp": 1288569600,
    "date_verified": "",
    "date_verified_timestamp": null,
    "former_usernames": 0,
    "url": "https://instagram.com/natgeo"
  }
}

About

Maintained by Data Direct — a small suite of fast, reliable Instagram and web-data scrapers. Each actor returns clean, structured results with no login, cookies, or proxy setup required. Have a question or a custom data need? Open an issue on this actor.