Instagram Competitor Follower / Following Scraper

Scrape any public Instagram account's follower list or following list to analyze your competitors' audience and social graph. Get structured data on every account — username, profile URL, account privacy, verification status, and inferred gender — ready to export as CSV or JSON.

Why use this?

Your competitors' followers are your potential customers. This Actor lets you:

• Build prospect lists from competitor accounts in your niche
• Analyze audience demographics with gender inference and public/private account breakdown
• Identify high-value leads by optionally pulling each follower's own follower/following counts and engagement ratio
• Export clean data directly to CSV, JSON, or any downstream tool via Apify integrations

How it works

1. Enter a competitor's Instagram username or profile URL
2. Toggle Scrape Following list instead of Followers to choose which side of the social graph to pull (OFF = followers, ON = following)
3. Set how many accounts to scrape
4. The Actor fetches the list using a fast, low-cost scraper (no login or cookies required)
5. Optionally enable follower/following counts & ratio for deeper audience analysis (uses more credits)
6. Results are pushed to an Apify dataset — download as CSV/JSON or connect to Google Sheets, Zapier, etc.

Output fields

Field	Description
username	Follower's Instagram handle
profile_url	Direct link to their profile
full_name	Display name
profile_pic_url	URL to follower's Instagram profile picture
is_private	Public or Private account
is_verified	Verified badge status
gender	Inferred from first name (male/female/unknown)
follower_count	(optional) Their follower count
following_count	(optional) Their following count
ratio	(optional) Followers / following (1 decimal)

The last three fields only appear when Include Follower/Following Counts & Ratio is enabled.

Cost optimization

• Default mode (counts off): Fast and cheap — only calls one sub-actor to pull the follower list
• With counts enabled: Runs a second profile scraper on each follower in batches of 50. More thorough but slower and uses more Apify platform credits. Only enable this when you need the extra data.

Input example

{
    "username": "apifytechnology",
    "scrape_following": false,
    "max_followers": 200,
    "include_counts": false
}

Set "scrape_following": true to pull the account's following list instead of its followers.

Integrations

Connect this Actor's output to your existing workflow:

• Google Sheets — auto-sync results for team analysis
• Zapier / Make — trigger outreach sequences from new scrape results
• Webhooks — push data to your CRM or internal tools