Instagram Profile Scraper 📸 Posts, Followers & Engagement

Give it an Instagram handle and get the account and their posts — followers, bio, bio link, category and verification, then per-post likes, comments, plays, hashtags and media, on a clean row each.

No account, no cookies, no API key. Paste handles and run.

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🔍 What is the Instagram Profile Scraper?

Give it handles — instagram, @instagram or a full profile URL, all normalised for you. For each account it returns:

• 👤 the account — followers, following, post count, bio, category, verification
• 🔗 the link in the bio
• 📸 their posts, with likes, comments, plays and every image URL, Reels and video posts marked with the video URL where there is one, plus hashtags lifted from each caption and any tagged location

That is a normal run. If you want the accounts on their own, switch 📸 Include their posts off.

⚡ What can it do?

• 👥 Take many accounts at once and return one dataset covering all of them.
• 📸 Return their posts as part of the same run, one row per post, keyed back to the handle that published it.
• 🎬 Keep only Reels and videos, if that is what you are analysing.
• 🔢 Filter by likes and ignore the long tail.
• 📅 Filter by date. Keep only posts inside a window you set.
• 🚧 Cap how far a filter searches, so a narrow filter stops rather than running away with your budget.
• 🔎 Filter before you pay. A post that does not match is never stored and never charged for.
• 📄 Export anywhere. JSON, CSV, Excel — the dataset is yours.

🎯 A private account is reported, not retried

An account set to private has no publicly visible posts. Rather than returning an empty list that looks like a failure, the account row comes back with isPrivate: true and the run says so plainly — and you are not charged for posts that were never available.

⚡ Speed and accuracy

Speed. Measured on a real run: 1 account and 8 posts in 8 seconds. Each account is one lookup, and their posts come back twelve at a time.

Accuracy. Handles are normalised, so instagram, @instagram and a full profile URL resolve to the same account and are collected once. Counts are numbers, not display text. Timestamps are ISO 8601. Post links are canonical instagram.com/p/… permalinks built from the post's own short code. Carousels return every image URL, not just the first. A handle that does not resolve is reported and skipped rather than returned empty.

📊 What data does it return?

Account rows (rowType: "account") — one per handle:

Field	Notes
🏷️ handle, fullName	Handle and display name
🔗 profileUrl	Direct link to the profile
📝 bioText	The bio text
🔢 followersCount, followsCount, postsCount	Audience and output, as numbers
⚖️ followerRatio	Followers divided by following
✅ isVerified, 🚩 isPrivate, 🏢 isBusiness	Account state
🏷️ categoryName	The business category, where the account sets one
🔗 externalUrl	The link in the bio

Post rows (rowType: "post") — one per post kept, following the account they belong to:

Field	Notes
📝 postCaption, captionLength	The caption and its length
🔗 postUrl, postShortCode	Canonical permalink and its short code
📊 likesCount, commentsCount, playsCount	Engagement, as numbers
📈 engagementTotal, engagementPerPlay	Likes plus comments, and that as a share of plays
🖼️ mediaKind, imageUrls, hasVideo, videoUrl	Media type and files
🏷️ hashtags	Lifted from the caption
📍 locationName	Tagged location, where there is one
🚩 isSponsored	Whether it is a declared paid partnership
📅 publishedAt	When it was posted, ISO 8601

🚫 What it does not return

• Contact details. No email address and no phone number is returned on any row, for any account — business, creator or personal, and regardless of what the account displays in the Instagram app. If you need contact data, this is not the Actor for it.
• Posts from private accounts. They are not publicly visible; the account row says so.
• Stories and Highlights. They expire and are not part of a profile feed.
• Follower lists. Audience size is a number; the individual followers are not returned.
• Analytics only the account owner can see — reach, impressions, saves, audience demographics.

💰 How much does it cost?

You pay per result — for the rows the run actually produces, never for runtime, and never on a subscription.

Standard rate: 💵 $0.0022 per row, and a row is a row: an account row and a post row cost exactly the same.

Run	Rows	Cost
🟩 10 accounts + 30 posts each	310	💵 $0.68
🟨 100 accounts, posts switched off	100	💵 $0.22
🟧 1 account + 1,000 posts	1,001	💵 $2.20

A handle that does not resolve is free. So is a post your filters remove. A month you do not run it costs nothing at all — there is no plan to keep alive.

What you get for that

	Included here
📸 Posts as part of a normal run	✅ same rate as the account row
🖼️ Every image in a carousel, not just the first	✅
📈 Engagement per play, computed	✅
🏷️ Hashtags as an array	✅ free
📍 Tagged location and paid-partnership flag	✅ free
🔎 Video-only, likes and date filters	✅ free
💳 Minimum spend	none

🚀 How do I use it?

1. Add one or more usernames or profile URLs.
2. Run as-is. You get each account plus their posts, every row at the same rate.
3. Set maximum posts per account to control how much each account returns.
4. Optionally filter the posts to videos, a like count, or a date window.
5. Only want the profiles? Switch 📸 Include their posts off.
6. Run, then export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

⚙️ Input

Field	Default	Notes
👤 usernames	—	Handles, @handles or profile URLs
📸 includePosts	true	Collect their posts — same rate as the account row
🔢 maxPostsPerAccount	50	How many posts to return per account
🎬 videosOnly	false	Keep only Reels and video posts
🔢 minLikes	none	Keep only posts with at least this many likes
📅 postedAfter, postedBefore	none	Keep only posts inside this window
🚧 maxScanned	1000	How far a filter may search before stopping

{
  "usernames": ["instagram", "@natgeo"],
  "includePosts": true,
  "maxPostsPerAccount": 50,
  "videosOnly": false
}

📄 Output example

A default run returns the account row first, captured from a live run:

{
  "rowType": "account",
  "handle": "nasa",
  "fullName": "NASA",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/nasa/",
  "bioText": "Making the seemingly impossible, possible. \u2728",
  "externalUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/",
  "followersCount": 104444393,
  "followsCount": 91,
  "postsCount": 4899,
  "categoryName": "Government Agencies",
  "isBusiness": true,
  "isVerified": true,
  "isPrivate": false
}

then their posts, one row each:

{
  "rowType": "post",
  "accountHandle": "instagram",
  "postId": "3974396910131444700",
  "postShortCode": "Dcn5O64y3xi",
  "postUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/p/Dcn5O64y3xi/",
  "postCaption": "5, 6, 7, ATE 🔥",
  "mediaKind": "video",
  "hasVideo": true
}

❓ Frequently asked questions

Do I need an Instagram account? No. No account, no cookies, no API key.

What forms of username work? instagram, @instagram, and https://www.instagram.com/instagram/ all resolve to the same account.

Does it return posts? Yes — posts come with a normal run, at the same rate as the account row. Switch 📸 Include their posts off if you only want the profiles.

What happens with a private account? You get the account row with isPrivate: true, and no posts — because none are public. You are not charged for posts that were never available.

Does it return email addresses or phone numbers? No. No contact details are returned on any row, for any account, business or otherwise.

Does it return Stories? No. Stories expire and are not part of a profile feed.

How do I keep a run small? Lower maximum posts per account, or switch the posts off entirely and pay for one row per handle.

🏷️ Pricing

Pay per result — you are charged for output, not for platform time.

Event	Price	Covers
📊 result — primary	💵 $0.0022	Any row returned, account or post, at one price
▶️ apify-actor-start	💵 $0.00005	Starting one run, charged once per GB of memory
🔗 Bio link, follower and engagement counts	✅ free	On every account row
🏷️ Hashtags, location and paid-partnership flag	✅ free	On every post row
🔒 Private accounts	✅ free	Posts never fetched, never charged
❌ Handles that do not resolve	✅ free	Reported, never charged
🔎 Posts your filters remove	✅ free	Never stored, never charged

One price, one event. Whatever the run returns, each row costs the same.

🏅 Rates by tier

The prices above are the standard rate. Higher Apify plans are billed at the discounted tiers below, automatically:

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD
📊 result	💵 $0.0022	💵 $0.0019	💵 $0.0016	💵 $0.0013
▶️ apify-actor-start	💵 $0.00005	💵 $0.00005	💵 $0.00005	💵 $0.00005

🛑 You are never billed past your limit

Set a maximum charge on the run and the Actor stops when it reaches it, with every account collected up to that point complete and saved. Filtered-out posts are never stored and never billed.