Snapchat Public Profile Scraper (subscribers, bio, no login)

Read any Snapchat Public Profile — the creator and business accounts Snapchat lists publicly — as one flat row: subscriber count, display name, bio, website, business address, category, verified badge, avatar, Snapcode, and how many spotlights, story highlights and lenses the profile shows. Give it handles or profile links. No login, no cookies, no API key.

What you get

One row per public profile: id/username, url, displayName, bio, subscriberCount, subscriberCountText, badge, isVerified, website, address, category, subcategory, profileImageUrl, snapcodeUrl, hasStory, spotlightCount, storyCount, lensCount, query, scrapedAt.

Example output

A real row (usernames: ["nba"]):

{
  "id": "nba",
  "url": "https://www.snapchat.com/add/nba",
  "username": "nba",
  "displayName": "NBA",
  "bio": "30 teams, 1 goal.",
  "subscriberCount": 3590800,
  "subscriberCountText": "3.6m",
  "badge": 1,
  "isVerified": true,
  "website": "NBA.com",
  "address": null,
  "category": "business-group",
  "subcategory": "sports-league",
  "profileImageUrl": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/aps/bolt/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZi1zdC5zYy1jZG4ubmV0L2QvcGxQanhqRDFZRk9IUWdGMUZLRHNqP2JvPUVna3lBUVJJQWxBWllBRSUzRCZ1Yz0yNQ._RS0,90_FMjpeg",
  "snapcodeUrl": "https://app.snapchat.com/web/deeplink/snapcode?username=nba&type=SVG&bitmoji=enable",
  "hasStory": false,
  "spotlightCount": 24,
  "storyCount": 16,
  "lensCount": 16,
  "query": "nba",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-17T00:12:04Z"
}

Two more, shortened:

Field	nike	mrbeast
displayName	Nike	MrBeast
subscriberCount	null (Snapchat publishes none)	1464700
bio	Just Do It.	null
website	https://www.nike.com	null
address	Beaverton, Oregon, United States	null
spotlightCount / storyCount / lensCount	30 / 1 / 16	4 / 6 / 0

Use cases

• Size up creators and brands before a Snapchat campaign: subscriber count, category and whether the profile is actually active (hasStory, spotlight and highlight counts).
• Build a competitor sheet for a niche: one row per brand profile with bio, website and business address as the brand itself publishes them.
• Verify a media kit: the subscriber figure a creator quotes against the one Snapchat prints today.
• Monitor mode: get an alert when a profile's subscriber count, bio or display name changes — useful for tracking growth or a rebrand.

Input

Field	Meaning	Default
usernames	Handles or profile links to read: nba, @nike, https://www.snapchat.com/add/mrbeast, https://www.snapchat.com/@nba	["nba", "nike"]
includeCounts	Count the spotlights, story highlights and lenses on the profile page	true
maxItems	Stop after this many rows	100
mode	scrape or monitor (only new/changed since last run)	scrape
monitorStateId, webhookUrl, telegramBotToken, telegramChatId	Monitor-mode state key and alert targets	empty

How it works

1. Each entry is turned into a handle — a bare handle, @handle, /add/<handle> or the canonical /@<handle> link all work; site sections (/discover, /spotlight, /lens, /invite) and other hosts are rejected before a request is made.
2. The public profile page is opened once per handle and read from the payload Snapchat server-renders into it, so the figures are the ones Snapchat itself shows a logged-out visitor.
3. Duplicated handles are read once, and one row is pushed per public profile.
4. A handle that has no account comes back as nothing (counted as not found). A handle whose account is not a Public Profile is skipped too — see below. A page that is not a profile page at all is reported as a block, never as an empty result.

Pricing

Event	Price
result	$0.002 per profile ($2 per 1,000)
monitor-check	$0.005 per monitor run
change	$0.002 per new/changed profile

Charged only for rows actually pushed: a handle that is unknown or not a Public Profile costs nothing. No proxy is needed, so platform usage stays small.

Public Profiles only — and what is NOT collected

Snapchat serves two kinds of account on the same URL, and this actor returns exactly one of them:

• A Public Profile is a creator or business account that opted into being listed publicly, with a subscriber count, a bio, a category and a website. Those become rows.
• An ordinary account has no public profile object. Its display name is in the page too — and it is dropped, unread, together with the whole handle. There is no input that turns that off.

Also never collected: friends, subscribers or viewers of a profile; snap, story or spotlight content and its comments; anyone's e-mail address or phone number. There is no email and no phone field in the output schema, a website value that is really a messenger deep link (wa.me/<number>, signal.me/#p/+…, t.me/+…, tel:, mailto:) is dropped, and an e-mail address or a dialable phone number typed into a bio is scrubbed out of bio before the row is built (8+ digits starting with 0 or +, or a shorter group introduced by a phone word; prices, dates and counts are left alone).

Limits

• Public Profiles only. There is no keyword search on Snapchat's public web surface, so you bring the handles.
• subscriberCount is null when Snapchat publishes no figure for that profile — the page then shows no counter either (Nike is a live example). It is not a zero, and it is not an error.
• spotlightCount, storyCount and lensCount are what the profile page delivers on its first load; the page lazy-loads more as you scroll, so treat them as a floor, not a catalogue total. Set includeCounts: false to leave all three empty.
• Story and spotlight content is not returned, only whether a story was live (hasStory) and how many tiles the page showed.
• category / subcategory are Snapchat's own tags and are often empty.
• The bio scrub works on the shape of the digits, not on a list of keywords: a number written in words, or a contact hidden in an image, is out of its reach.
• Views, engagement and audience demographics are private to the profile owner and are not served to any visitor.

FAQ

Does it need a Snapchat account, cookies or an API key? No. Every request is a plain public web request to the profile page.

Can it find profiles by keyword? No — Snapchat has no public keyword search for profiles. Supply the handles you care about.

Why did my handle return nothing? Either Snapchat has no account under it, or the account is not a Public Profile. The RUN_SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store carries emptyReason, which separates that from "the source answered with a wall".

Will it give me the e-mail address in the bio? No, by design. See the section above.

Changelog

• 0.1: initial release — public profiles by handle or link, subscriber count, bio, website, address, category, badge, Snapcode, spotlight/story/lens counts, monitor mode on subscribers, bio and display name; ordinary accounts skipped and bio contacts scrubbed by design.

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