Instagram Follower Count Checker: Exact Counts & Bio

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Instagram Follower Count Checker takes a list of Instagram usernames or profile links and returns, for each account, the exact follower and following count and up to 59 profile fields such as bio, website, verified badge and category. No Instagram login, no cookies. You pay only for profiles found.

✅ What it does

• Exact counts. followerCount and followingCount are the exact numbers (686,393,775, not "686M"), read at the moment of the lookup.
• Up to 59 profile fields per account: name, pronouns, bio and its @mentions and #hashtags, website and bio links, verified, private, category, Instagram's raw account-type number, business address when the account shows one, profile picture (also in HD), reels count, highlights, Threads badge and Instagram's account labels (memorialized, transparency, AI labels and more).
• Messy lists welcome. nasa, @nasa and https://www.instagram.com/nasa/ are the same account: the actor cleans your list, looks each account up once and charges it once.
• Pay only for profiles found. Accounts that do not exist, lines that are not usernames, duplicates and failed lookups are not charged. Every line of your input gets a status in the free Lookup status output, so you see exactly what happened to each one.
• Spending cap built in. Set Max profiles and the run never charges for more than that.
• Private accounts count too. Their follower and following counts are public, so they come back as normal rows with isPrivate: true.

Who uses it: social-media and influencer marketers vetting creators, agencies reporting on client and competitor accounts, brand-safety teams checking account labels, and analysts who need clean follower numbers for a list of accounts.

🚀 Quick start

1. Paste usernames or profile links into Instagram usernames or profile links, one per line.
2. Press Start.
3. Open the Overview tab of the results, or download them as JSON, CSV or Excel.

The default input checks nasa, natgeo and instagram and finishes in a minute or two.

Only need the numbers? Switch off Profile details for the fastest counts-only lookup. The price per profile is the same.

🔧 Input

Field	What it does
Instagram usernames or profile links (usernames)	One account per line: nasa, @nasa or https://www.instagram.com/nasa/. Required.
Max profiles (maxItems)	Look up at most this many accounts, in your order, and stop. Default 100; 0 = no limit.
Posts count (best effort) (includePostsCount)	Tries to add postsCount and postsCountIsExact. Off by default: Instagram rarely shows the posts count to logged-out lookups, so it is usually null. Makes the run slower, not more expensive.
Profile details (includeProfileDetails)	Adds the website, category, account type and address, HD picture, reels count and Instagram's account labels (up to 36 more fields). On by default.
Proxy (proxyConfiguration)	Off by default. Switch to Apify Proxy (automatic datacenter group) if your runs are refused. Residential proxies and your own proxy URLs are not accepted.

Example input:

{
  "usernames": ["nasa", "@natgeo", "https://www.instagram.com/instagram/"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includePostsCount": false,
  "includeProfileDetails": true
}

📊 Output

One item per account found. Example (abridged; values from 29 October 2026):

{
  "username": "instagram",
  "pk": "25025320",
  "fullName": "Instagram",
  "followerCount": 686393775,
  "followingCount": 159,
  "postsCount": null,
  "postsCountIsExact": null,
  "isVerified": true,
  "isPrivate": false,
  "biography": "Discover what's new on Instagram 🔎✨",
  "profileStatus": "ok",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/instagram/",
  "inputUsername": "https://www.instagram.com/instagram/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T10:15:00Z",
  "statusDetail": null
}

Every item has the same set of fields. A field Instagram does not show for that account, or that an option you switched off would have filled, is null. Many of Instagram's labels (AI labels, transparency labels, live broadcast and so on) are null on most accounts: they are filled only when the account carries them.

Views in the results: Overview, Follower counts, Profile, Business accounts, Account labels and Input match.

Fields

Field names follow Instagram's own names in camelCase (follower_count becomes followerCount). "Details" means the field is filled when Profile details is on, "Posts" means it is filled only when Posts count is on, and even then it is usually null; the rest are always filled when Instagram has them.

Field	Instagram name	Filled	Meaning
username	username	always	The account's username as Instagram shows it.
pk	pk	always	Instagram's numeric account id. Stays the same when the username changes.
fullName	full_name	always	The display name.
followerCount	follower_count	always	Exact number of followers at the time of the lookup.
followingCount	following_count	always	Exact number of accounts it follows.
postsCount	—	Posts	Number of posts, when Instagram shows it (rarely); rounded above 10,000.
postsCountIsExact	—	Posts	true when postsCount is exact, false when Instagram rounded it.
isVerified	is_verified	always	Has the blue verified badge.
isPrivate	is_private	always	Private account. Counts are still exact; bio and posts are hidden.
profileStatus	—	always	ok or private.
biography	biography	always	The bio text. Empty for private accounts.
biographyWithEntities	biography_with_entities	Details	The @mentions and #hashtags in the bio.
externalUrl	external_url	Details	The website link on the profile.
bioLinks	bio_links	always	The links under the bio, with their titles.
category	category	Details	The business or creator category, for example "Science".
shouldShowCategory	should_show_category	Details	Whether the profile shows its category.
isBusiness	is_business	Details	Instagram's own business flag, passed through as it is returned to a logged-out visitor. Often false even on brand accounts: category is the better signal.
isProfessionalAccount	is_professional_account	Details	Instagram's own professional-account flag, passed through as it is returned to a logged-out visitor. Usually empty (null).
accountType	account_type	Details	Instagram's raw account-type number, passed through unmapped: Instagram does not document its values. Brand accounts we checked show 2.
addressStreet, cityName, zip	address_street, city_name, zip	Details	The business address, when the account shows one.
profilePicUrl	profile_pic_url	always	Profile picture link. Expires within days.
hdProfilePicUrlInfo	hd_profile_pic_url_info	Details	The profile picture in high resolution. Expires within days.
hasProfilePic	has_profile_pic	Details	Has a profile picture.
totalClipsCount	total_clips_count	Details	Number of reels.
hasAnyClips	has_any_clips	always	Has reels.
loxHighlightsConnection	lox_highlights_connection	always	Story highlights: titles and covers.
hasStoryArchive	has_story_archive	Details	Has a story archive.
textPostAppBadgeLabel, showTextPostAppBadge	text_post_app_badge_label, show_text_post_app_badge	always	The Threads badge under the name.
accountBadges	account_badges	always	Badges shown on the profile.
isMemorialized	is_memorialized	always	Memorialized ("Remembering") account.
pronouns	pronouns	always	Pronouns shown on the profile, as Instagram lists them. Usually empty.
isUnpublished	is_unpublished	always	Unpublished account.
transparencyLabel, transparencyProduct	transparency_label, transparency_product	Details	Transparency label, for example state-controlled media.
aigmAccountLabelInfo, aiAgentType, profilePicGenaiToolInfo	aigm_account_label_info, ai_agent_type, profile_pic_genai_tool_info	Details	AI labels on the account and on its picture.
gating	gating	Details	Sensitive-content screen on the profile.
regulatedNewsInLocations	regulated_news_in_locations	Details	Countries where the account's news content is restricted.
liveBroadcastVisibility, liveBroadcastId	live_broadcast_visibility, live_broadcast_id	Details	Live broadcast in progress.
isEmbedsDisabled	is_embeds_disabled	Details	Posts cannot be embedded on other sites.
metaVerifiedBenefitsInfo	meta_verified_benefits_info	Details	Meta Verified benefits shown on the account.
isRingCreator, showRingAward, ringCreatorMetadata	is_ring_creator, show_ring_award, ring_creator_metadata	Details	Creator award flags.
fbid	fbid	always	Instagram's second account id (business id).
allMediaCount, mediaCount, hasLongformMedia, hasRestylePresets, hasChaining, removeMessageEntrypoint, hideCreatorMarketplaceBadge, showAccountTransparencyDetails, isCannes	all_media_count, media_count, has_longform_media, has_restyle_presets, has_chaining, remove_message_entrypoint, hide_creator_marketplace_badge, show_account_transparency_details, is_cannes	always or Details	Passed through exactly as Instagram reports them. Usually null or false.
inputUsername	—	always	The line of your input that gave this profile.
profileUrl	—	always	Link to the profile.
scrapedAt	—	always	When the profile was looked up (UTC).
statusDetail	—	always	null, or a sentence saying which part is missing (for example the posts count) and why.

Lookup status (free)

The Lookup status output lists every line of your input with its result: found, private, not_found (no such account, or deactivated), invalid (not an Instagram username), duplicate (same account as an earlier line), failed (Instagram did not answer), or skipped_cap, skipped_charge_limit, skipped_timeout, skipped_aborted (not looked up because the run stopped first). Only found and private are charged.

💸 Pricing

You pay per profile found: $0.21 per 1,000 profiles, the same on every Apify plan. Private accounts count as found, because their counts are exact.

Free of charge: accounts that do not exist, lines that are not usernames, duplicates, and lookups Instagram did not answer. The price per profile is the same whatever options you switch on, with or without Apify Proxy.

Set Max profiles or a spending limit on the run, and the actor stops cleanly when it is reached, keeping everything it has collected.

⚡ Speed

Options	Time per 1,000 accounts (approximate)
Profile details (the default)	about 10 minutes
Profile details and posts count	about 15 minutes
Counts only (both off)	about 5 minutes

Accounts that do not exist take a fraction of that. Long lists run for hours: raise the run timeout in Run options if needed. When the timeout comes first, the run ends cleanly and the Lookup status lists the accounts it did not reach.

⚠️ Limitations

• What a logged-out visitor sees, nothing more. No followers or following lists, no posts, reels, stories or comments, and no email or phone number: Instagram does not show those without logging in.
• The posts count is best effort, and off by default. Instagram rarely shows it to logged-out lookups, so with Posts count on it is usually null, with or without a proxy. When it is shown, it is rounded above 10,000 (postsCountIsExact is then false).
• Counts move. The follower count is exact at the moment of the lookup; a big account can gain or lose a few followers a second later.
• Profile picture links expire within days. Download the pictures if you need to keep them.
• No built-in history. Each run is a snapshot. To follow an account over time, schedule the actor and compare runs by pk and scrapedAt.
• Instagram may refuse some lookups. They are retried, then listed as failed and not charged; run them again later. A row whose posts count or details could not be fetched is still saved with its exact counts, and statusDetail says what is missing.
• A renamed account is found under its new username only. Keep pk to recognise it.
• A small cache store. To keep later runs fast, the actor saves Instagram's current page settings (under 1 KB, no profile data) in a key-value store named instagram-com-follower-count-scraper-cache in your account. Deleting it is safe; the next run creates it again.
• One maintenance request may use Apify Proxy. When Instagram updates its website, the actor loads one profile page through Apify Proxy to adapt, even if your proxy is off. It is not charged to you.

❓ FAQ

How do I check an Instagram account's follower count? Paste the username into the input and press Start. followerCount in the result is the exact number.

Is the follower count exact? Yes. Instagram's page rounds it ("686M followers"); this actor returns the exact figure, for example 686,393,775 for @instagram on 29 October 2026.

Can I check many Instagram accounts at once? Yes. Paste as many as you need, one per line; use Max profiles to cap a run.

Do I need an Instagram account or to log in? No. The actor never logs in and never asks for your password.

Do I pay for accounts that don't exist? No. Only accounts found (public or private) are charged. The Lookup status shows every other line and why.

Can I get the posts count? Only sometimes. Switch on Posts count: Instagram rarely shows the number to logged-out lookups, so it is usually null. When it is shown, it is exact below 10,000 and rounded above ("32K"), and postsCountIsExact says which.

Can I track follower growth? Schedule the actor (daily, for example) and compare followerCount across runs by pk.

Do I need a proxy? The proxy is off by default. If your runs are refused, switch to Apify Proxy; the price per profile does not change.

Is it legal to scrape Instagram profiles? The actor reads only what a logged-out visitor can see. See the legal note below.

⚖️ Legal and personal data

This actor reads public Instagram profiles only, logged out, without cookies. Profiles belong to people and organisations, and names, bios, pictures and links are personal data under the GDPR and similar laws. You are responsible for having a lawful basis for collecting and using them, and for respecting Instagram's terms where they apply to you.

Unofficial tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc. "Instagram" is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc., used here only to identify the website the data comes from.

📝 Changelog

See the Changelog tab.