# Find Local Businesses on Instagram

**Use case:** 

Discover local businesses on Instagram using business type and location keywords. Search for coffee shops, restaurants, dentists, salons, gyms, real estate agencies, and other local businesses in a specific city or area.
Use Instagram Profile Finder to turn local search queries into lists of relevant Instagram business profiles.

## Input

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "coffee shop New York",
    "dentist Los Angeles",
    "restaurant Miami",
    "hair salon Chicago",
    "gym Austin",
    "photographer London"
  ],
  "emailDiscoveryMode": false,
  "searchMode": "profiles",
  "queryMaxResults": 10,
  "searchCountry": "us",
  "searchLanguage": "en",
  "scrapeFacebookProfile": false,
  "skipPostCount": false,
  "skipLatestPosts": true,
  "skipRelatedProfiles": true
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "profile_pic_url": {
    "label": "Profile Pic"
  },
  "username": {
    "label": "Username",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "full_name": {
    "label": "Full Name"
  },
  "contact_email": {
    "label": "Contact Email",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "followers": {
    "label": "Followers"
  },
  "following": {
    "label": "Following"
  },
  "post_count": {
    "label": "Post Count"
  },
  "is_verified": {
    "label": "Is verified"
  },
  "is_private": {
    "label": "Private"
  },
  "is_business": {
    "label": "Business"
  },
  "category": {
    "label": "Category"
  },
  "biography": {
    "label": "Bio"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Url"
  },
  "crawled_at": {
    "label": "Crawled"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [🔥Instagram Profile Finder🔥](https://apify.com/instagram-scraper/instagram-profile-finder.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/instagram-scraper/instagram-profile-finder.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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