📸 Instagram Profile Scraper

🚀 Collect Instagram public profile data — quickly, safely, and at scale!

Extract rich, structured data from Instagram profiles using just usernames or URLs.
Perfect for lead generation, competitor research, and automation workflows.

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✨ What can Instagram Profile Scraper do?

• Scrape detailed public Instagram profile data at scale
• Convert usernames or profile URLs into structured datasets
• Extract followers, engagement metrics, and business information
• Retrieve latest posts, IGTV videos, and related profiles
• Collect emails (when publicly available in bio)
• Enable automation-ready outputs for analytics and integrations

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📊 What data can I scrape from Instagram profiles?

This actor extracts a wide range of public data, including:

• Profile info: username, full name, bio, profile picture
• Metrics: followers, following, posts count
• Account details: verified status, business category, private/public
• External links: websites and contact URLs
• Related profiles (network insights)
• Latest posts (captions, likes, comments, media)
• IGTV videos (views, duration, engagement)
• Email (if publicly available in biography)

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📦 Output sample

⚠️ Note: The output may include nested arrays like latestPosts, latestIgtvVideos, and relatedProfiles.
For lighter datasets, you can omit these fields during export.

[
  {
    "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/therock",
    "id": "232192182",
    "username": "therock",
    "fullName": "Dwayne Johnson",
    "followersCount": 390526485,
    "followsCount": 318,
    "postsCount": 8316,
    "verified": true,
    "externalUrl": "http://therock.komi.io/",
    "email": null,
    "latestPosts": [
      {
        "id": "3859273064823712869",
        "type": "Video",
        "caption": "The ocean chose her for a reason 🌊",
        "likesCount": 1134319,
        "commentsCount": 9055,
        "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DWO5Ge4DOxl/"
      }
    ]
  }
]

## ⚙️ Inputs

| Field | Type | Description |
|------|------|------------|
| `profiles` | Array | Instagram usernames or URLs |
| `maxProfiles` | Integer | Max number of profiles to scrape |
| `collectEmails` | Boolean | Only return profiles with emails |
| `minFollowers` | Integer | Filter by minimum followers |

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## 💰 Pricing

- Pay per results (profile-level output)  
- Scales efficiently for bulk scraping  
- Cost depends on number of profiles processed  

💡 **Tip:** Use filters like `minFollowers` or `collectEmails` to reduce costs and improve data quality.

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## 🚀 Features

- Works without login or cookies ✅  
- Gathers public Instagram profile details  
- Returns structured data (bio, followers, posts, links, etc.)  
- Supports multiple usernames in a single run  
- Optimized for scale — ideal for research, automation, and analytics  

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## ⚠️ Notes & Limitations

- Only works with public profiles (private accounts are not accessible)  
- Nonexistent or removed profiles are skipped automatically  
- Engagement metrics reflect publicly available data and may not be real-time  

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## 🎯 Use Cases

### Influencer Marketing & Creator Discovery
- Find micro-influencers with strong engagement  
- Discover creators actively posting Reels  
- Extract contact info for outreach and partnerships  
- Analyze competitor collaborations  

### Lead Generation & B2B Sales
- Identify potential customers from Instagram profiles  
- Filter by business accounts and engagement  
- Build targeted outreach lists  
- Discover decision-makers in specific industries  

### Competitor Intelligence & Market Research
- Analyze competitor audiences and positioning  
- Compare multiple accounts at scale  
- Identify overlapping audiences (warm leads)  
- Track content strategies and engagement patterns  

### Social Media Strategy
- Discover trending content ideas  
- Build lookalike audiences  
- Analyze successful accounts in your niche  
- Optimize posting strategies  

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## ❓ FAQ

### What's the expected size of the dataset?
Datasets can grow large due to nested fields like `latestPosts` and `relatedProfiles`.  
You can exclude these fields during export to reduce size.

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### Can I get Instagram details by username?
Yes — simply provide a username and the scraper will fetch all available public data.

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### Can I get Instagram details by URL or ID?
Yes — URLs and IDs work the same way as usernames and return identical data.

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### Is it legal to scrape Instagram profiles?
This scraper only collects publicly available data.  
However, you are responsible for complying with applicable data protection laws (e.g. GDPR).

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### Can I integrate this with other tools?
Yes — easily connect with:

- Zapier  
- Make  
- n8n  
- Google Sheets & Drive  
- Slack  
- Airbyte  
- APIs and more  

You can also use webhooks for automation workflows.

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### Can I use this with the Apify API?
Yes — run, schedule, and fetch results programmatically using the Apify API.

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### Instagram Profile Scraper not working?
If you encounter issues, report them via the **Issues tab**. Improvements are ongoing.

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## ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is intended for responsible use only.  
It collects publicly available data without requiring login.

The developer is not responsible for misuse or violation of Instagram’s terms.

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## 🚀 Start scraping now

Turn Instagram profiles into actionable data for growth, research, and automation.