Instagram & TikTok Micro-Influencer Finder

Find public creator profiles for product seeding, affiliate campaigns and UGC outreach. Give it profile or hashtag URLs (or bare hashtags), set a follower band such as 5,000–50,000, and it returns public bio contact signals, niche hashtags, profile metrics and recent-post engagement when the platform exposes them.

{
  "hashtags": ["moda", "kozmetik"],
  "platform": "instagram",
  "minFollowers": 5000,
  "maxFollowers": 50000,
  "includeWithoutEmail": false,
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "proxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
  "useBrowserFallback": true
}

{
  "platform": "instagram",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/example.creator",
  "username": "example.creator",
  "displayName": "Example Creator",
  "bio": "moda & lifestyle · iş birliği: hello@example.com",
  "followers": 18400,
  "following": 812,
  "postCount": 640,
  "emails": ["hello@example.com"],
  "phones": [],
  "externalLinks": ["https://linktr.ee/example.creator"],
  "hashtags": ["#moda", "#ootd"],
  "recentLikes": 540,
  "recentComments": 26,
  "engagementRate": 2.93,
  "microInfluencerFit": true,
  "status": "ok",
  "checkedAt": "2026-08-28T09:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

What this does that a generic scraper does not

It filters to the micro tier as it goes. Profiles outside the minFollowers–maxFollowers band are dropped, and — unless includeWithoutEmail is on — so are ok profiles with no public business email. You pay for the leads you asked for.

Contact signals come from public bio text only. Emails and phone numbers are extracted from the visible bio and page text; there is no login, no private data.

Three fetch tiers, escalated only when needed. Direct request first; then Apify Proxy with rotation if the response is empty or challenged; then a headless Chromium render if useBrowserFallback is on. The browser is shared across the run and closed on exit.

Blocked is reported, not billed. Platform challenge pages, private profiles and unreadable pages never enter the dataset (every dataset row is a billed event). They are listed under failures in the SUMMARY record with the reason, never as fabricated numbers.

Input

Field	What it does
startUrls	Public profile, hashtag or search URLs
hashtags	Bare hashtags used to build discovery URLs
platform	auto, instagram or tiktok
maxProfiles	Max unique profiles emitted (1–1000)
minFollowers / maxFollowers	Follower band; maxFollowers: 0 means no upper limit
lookbackDays	Requested window for recent-engagement signals
includeWithoutEmail	Keep profiles with no public email
requestTimeoutSecs	Per-request timeout (5–120)
useApifyProxy / proxyGroups	Proxy fallback and optional groups (e.g. RESIDENTIAL)
useBrowserFallback	Allow a Chromium render when direct + proxy are challenged (more memory / compute)

Output

One row per profile: identity, bio, followers / following / postCount, emails[] / phones[] / externalLinks[], hashtags[], recent-post recentLikes / recentComments, a derived engagementRate, microInfluencerFit, and status (always ok) / checkedAt / error. The run summary, including blocked / failed profiles (failures), is written to the key-value store record SUMMARY.

Limits, stated plainly

• Instagram and TikTok serve limited data to logged-out clients. Follower counts and engagement are best-effort and often come from og: / JSON-LD metadata; expect gaps.
• Discovery only sees links on the page given (profile or hashtag page); it does not scroll an infinite feed.
• engagementRate is recentLikes / followers from whatever the page exposed — a rough indicator, not an audited metric.
• Use public pages lawfully, respect each platform's terms and rate limits, and contact creators only in line with applicable privacy and anti-spam rules.

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