Instagram Related Profiles Scraper

A powerful scraper built for recursive profile discovery and data mining. Start with a single Instagram username or URL and automatically traverse "related profiles" to map out interconnected networks, discover influencers, and find niche communities.

Focused exclusively on profiles, this actor traverses up to your desired scrapeDepth and extracts comprehensive profile data—returning normalized profile fields (identity, stats, and account flags), raw metadata, and optional previews like latest_posts and latest_igtv_videos for every discovered account.

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What this actor can do

• Scrape Instagram profile stats: followers, following, number of posts
• Get key profile attributes: verified/private/business flags, profile pictures, bio, external links (if available)
• Keep additional raw profile metadata from Instagram, including viewer/account capability flags and business/category fields when available
• Optionally scrape a linked Facebook profile into fb_profile when scrapeFacebookProfile is enabled
• Return lightweight latest posts metadata (caption, engagement, publishing/status flags, and media fields when available) for quick previews
• Return lightweight latest IGTV videos metadata (same simplified shape as latest_posts, plus video_duration when available)
• Return a list of related profiles (useful for discovery and recursive expansion)
• Expand related profiles up to a configurable scrapeDepth
• Accept both usernames and profile URLs

Want to get other details from Instagram?

This actor is optimized for profiles (not full post feeds). If you want to scrape other Instagram data, use a dedicated scraper for that specific data type.

Related actors:

Actor	Description	Stats
Instagram Profile Scraper	Scrape Instagram profile data and profile statistics from public Instagram pages
Fast Instagram Profile Posts Scraper	Scrape post data from Instagram profile pages
Instagram Profile Posts Scraper	Extract profile post details such as hashtags, counts, media, and shortcode
Fast Instagram Profile Reels Scraper	Scrape public Instagram Reels from profile pages
Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper	Scrape posts from the profile Tagged tab
Instagram Hashtags Posts Scraper	Scrape public Instagram hashtag pages

What data can I scrape from Instagram profiles?

Using this Instagram Related Profiles API, you can extract both normalized fields and additional Instagram profile metadata (when available on the public profile):

Category	Fields	What you get
Identity & IDs	id, fbid, eimu_id, username, full_name	Basic profile identifiers plus cross-system IDs returned by Instagram.
Profile media & links	profile_pic_url, profile_pic_url_hd, biography, contact_email, bio_links[], external_url, external_url_linkshimmed, fb_profile_biolink	Profile pictures, bio text, extracted contact email, direct links, and Instagram link-wrapper URLs when present.
Facebook enrichment	fb_profile	Optional Facebook profile lookup from one detected profile URL in external_url, bio_links, fb_profile_biolink, biography, or full_name when scrapeFacebookProfile is enabled. The nested payload includes url, status, message, bio, profile_type, profile_name, page_id, counts, and other status fields when available.
Counts & activity	followers, following, post_count, igtv_video_count, highlight_reel_count, pinned_channels_list_count	High-level counts for analysis, monitoring, and profile summaries.
Category & business metadata	category_name, category_enum, business_category_name, overall_category_name, business_contact_method, business_email, business_phone_number, business_address_json	Public business/category fields when Instagram exposes them.
Account flags & capabilities	is_verified, is_verified_by_mv4b, is_private, is_business_account, is_professional_account, has_clips, has_guides, has_channel, has_ar_effects, has_onboarded_to_text_post_app, is_embeds_disabled, is_joined_recently, hide_like_and_view_counts, country_block	Visibility, verification, and feature flags that describe how the account behaves on Instagram.
Viewer relationship flags	followed_by_viewer, follows_viewer, requested_by_viewer, has_requested_viewer, blocked_by_viewer, has_blocked_viewer, restricted_by_viewer	Relationship fields included in the Instagram profile payload.
Safety & transparency	is_supervision_enabled, is_guardian_of_viewer, is_supervised_by_viewer, is_supervised_user, is_regulated_c18, should_show_category, should_show_public_contacts, show_account_transparency_details, show_text_post_app_badge, transparency_label, transparency_product	Additional moderation, supervision, and display metadata from Instagram.
Additional raw metadata	ai_agent_owner_username, ai_agent_type	Extra pass-through fields when Instagram includes them.
Latest posts (preview)	latest_posts[]	Lightweight metadata for recent posts: id, shortcode, url, taken_at_timestamp, human-readable taken_at, is_video, display_url, dimensions, caption, hashtags, mentions, like_count, comment_count, owner, tagged_user, plus media/status fields like video_url, video_view_count, video_duration, has_audio, clips_music_attribution_info, is_published, location, has_upcoming_event, comments_disabled, like_and_view_counts_disabled, viewer_can_reshare, coauthor_producers, pinned_for_users, and product_type when available. url is built from the media type, using /p/{shortcode}/ for standard posts and /reel/{shortcode}/ for reels or clips.
Latest IGTV (preview)	latest_igtv_videos[]	Lightweight metadata for recent IGTV videos with the same preview fields as latest_posts[], including url, taken_at_timestamp, and human-readable taken_at. url uses the reel form: /reel/{shortcode}/.
Related profiles	related_profiles[]	Suggested/related accounts used for recursive expansion: id, username, full_name, is_private, is_verified, profile_pic_url.
Traversal metadata	depth, source_username	depth is 0 for the input username and increases by one for each related-profile hop. source_username is null at the root and otherwise points to the parent username that produced the item.
Scrape metadata	crawled_at, ig_status, message (not-found items)	Timestamp of the scrape and a simple status indicator. ig_status is ok when profile data is returned, and not_found when the profile does not exist or is restricted. Not-found items also carry a message and canonical url.

Notes:

• Field availability depends on what Instagram returns for a given profile (especially for private accounts).
• Some fields are normalized by the actor (followers, following, post_count), while others are passed through from Instagram's profile payload.
• Raw Instagram metadata can change over time, so downstream consumers should treat optional fields as non-guaranteed.
• contact_email is extracted from biography or full_name when an email address is present on a found profile, and is null otherwise.
• fb_profile is null when the toggle is disabled or no Facebook profile URL is found. If Facebook profile parsing still fails after retries, the actor keeps fb_profile as null instead of throwing. Other lookup failures can still surface as fb_profile.status = "error" or fb_profile.status = "not_found". Successful fb_profile payloads include bio instead of the older intro name.
• To keep output small and fast, arrays like latest_posts, latest_igtv_videos, and related_profiles are truncated.
• The filter fields only decide whether a profile is written to the dataset. They do not stop related profiles from being fetched.

Typical use cases

• Influencer discovery and enrichment (profile stats, verification, business account)
• Competitor monitoring (track follower growth over time)
• Lead enrichment for sales/marketing (public business profiles)
• Content research (quick look at latest post captions/engagement)

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Input

Configure these fields in the Actor’s Input tab in the Apify Console:

instagramUsernames (required)

A list of Instagram usernames or profile URLs you want to scrape.

Examples:

• google
• https://www.instagram.com/google/

scrapeFacebookProfile (optional)

When enabled, the actor looks for one Facebook profile URL in this order: external_url, bio_links, fb_profile_biolink, biography, then full_name.

The nested fb_profile payload includes url, status, message, bio, profile_name, page_id, followers, following, is_business_page_active, category_name, and profile_type when available.

scrapeDepth (optional)

Controls how many additional related-profile layers are expanded.

• 0: store the input profile and its direct related profiles
• 1: also expand the related profiles of those related profiles
• 10 is the maximum accepted value

maxResults (optional)

Caps the number of dataset items written by the actor.

• Minimum value: 10
• Default: no limit
• Set a value only if you want to cap stored dataset items
• It does not stop the crawl chain; already queued related profiles still run

Filter fields (optional)

These fields are grouped under a Filters section in the Apify Console and are top-level JSON inputs. In the console they render as Yes / No dropdowns. In raw JSON, use lowercase yes / no; leave a field empty or set it to null to disable that filter.

{
  "minFollowers": 1000,
  "maxFollowers": 1000000,
  "minPosts": 10,
  "maxPosts": 5000,
  "isVerified": "yes",
  "isPrivate": "no",
  "isBusinessAccount": "yes"
}

Leave any field empty or null to disable that specific filter.

Profiles that are filtered out still count as processed work and may trigger the filtered-out billing event after the request has been marked handled.

Quick start (Apify Console)

1. Add one or more values to instagramUsernames (either usernames like nypost or URLs like https://www.instagram.com/google/).
2. Adjust scrapeDepth, the filter fields, or maxResults only if you need a deeper crawl or tighter result limits.
3. Click Run → open the Dataset tab to view/export results (JSON, CSV, Excel, etc.).

This makes the actor usable as an Instagram profile scraping API, because datasets can be consumed programmatically via Apify’s API.

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Example input

{
  "instagramUsernames": ["kevinhart4real"],
  "scrapeFacebookProfile": true,
  "scrapeDepth": 1,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "isVerified": "yes",
  "isPrivate": "no"
}

Example output

Example dataset item when a profile is found. This sample is abridged only for long URLs and array length, but includes the top-level field set from a real dataset item. Arrays are intentionally truncated to keep outputs small and fast (defaults: latest_posts ≤ 12, latest_igtv_videos ≤ 12, related_profiles ≤ 20). The nested fb_profile block below is illustrative and shows the enrichment shape when a Facebook lookup succeeds.

{
  "id": "1067259270",
  "fbid": "17841401778116675",
  "eimu_id": "101735994563732",
  "username": "google",
  "depth": 0,
  "source_username": null,
  "full_name": "Google",
  "profile_pic_url": "https://.../610021954_..._n.jpg",
  "profile_pic_url_hd": "https://.../610021954_..._hd.jpg",
  "biography": "Here to help\npress@google.com\nfacebook.com/Google",
  "contact_email": "press@google.com",
  "bio_links": [
    {
      "title": "",
      "lynx_url": "https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Flinkin.bio%2Fgoogle...",
      "url": "https://linkin.bio/google",
      "link_type": "external"
    }
  ],
  "fb_profile_biolink": null,
  "external_url": "https://linkin.bio/google",
  "external_url_linkshimmed": "https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Flinkin.bio%2Fgoogle...",
  "fb_profile": {
    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/Google/",
    "status": "ok",
    "message": null,
    "bio": "Google",
    "profile_name": "Google",
    "page_id": "1234567890",
    "followers": 35000000,
    "following": 0,
    "is_business_page_active": true,
    "category_name": "Internet company",
    "profile_type": "Page"
  },
  "category_name": "Internet company",
  "category_enum": "INTERNET_COMPANY",
  "business_category_name": "None",
  "overall_category_name": null,
  "business_contact_method": "UNKNOWN",
  "business_email": null,
  "business_phone_number": null,
  "business_address_json": null,
  "following": 40,
  "followers": 15826557,
  "post_count": 3183,
  "igtv_video_count": 107,
  "highlight_reel_count": 0,
  "pinned_channels_list_count": 0,
  "is_verified": true,
  "is_verified_by_mv4b": false,
  "is_private": false,
  "is_business_account": true,
  "is_professional_account": true,
  "has_clips": true,
  "has_guides": false,
  "has_channel": false,
  "has_ar_effects": false,
  "has_onboarded_to_text_post_app": true,
  "is_embeds_disabled": false,
  "is_joined_recently": false,
  "hide_like_and_view_counts": false,
  "country_block": false,
  "followed_by_viewer": false,
  "follows_viewer": false,
  "requested_by_viewer": false,
  "has_requested_viewer": false,
  "blocked_by_viewer": false,
  "has_blocked_viewer": false,
  "restricted_by_viewer": null,
  "is_supervision_enabled": false,
  "is_guardian_of_viewer": false,
  "is_supervised_by_viewer": false,
  "is_supervised_user": false,
  "is_regulated_c18": false,
  "should_show_category": true,
  "should_show_public_contacts": false,
  "show_account_transparency_details": true,
  "show_text_post_app_badge": true,
  "transparency_label": null,
  "transparency_product": null,
  "ai_agent_owner_username": null,
  "ai_agent_type": null,
  "latest_posts": [
    {
      "id": "3880173376925319525",
      "shortcode": "DXZJSDWj8Fl",
      "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXZJSDWj8Fl/",
      "taken_at_timestamp": 1776772804,
      "taken_at": "2026-04-21T12:00:04Z",
      "is_video": true,
      "display_url": "https://.../670922807_..._n.jpg",
      "video_view_count": 310344,
      "video_url": "https://.../video.mp4",
      "has_audio": true,
      "clips_music_attribution_info": {
        "artist_name": "sfgate",
        "song_name": "Original audio",
        "uses_original_audio": true,
        "should_mute_audio": false,
        "should_mute_audio_reason": "",
        "audio_id": "35605659979019192"
      },
      "is_published": true,
      "location": {
        "id": "213385402",
        "name": "New York, New York"
      },
      "has_upcoming_event": false,
      "comments_disabled": false,
      "like_and_view_counts_disabled": false,
      "viewer_can_reshare": true,
      "coauthor_producers": [],
      "pinned_for_users": [],
      "product_type": "clips",
      "dimensions": {
        "height": 1920,
        "width": 1080
      },
      "caption": "Virtually trying on outfits with Google? That's actually groundbreaking. #sponsored",
      "hashtags": ["sponsored", "DevilWearsPrada2"],
      "mentions": ["20thcenturystudios"],
      "like_count": 34790,
      "comment_count": 181,
      "owner": {
        "id": "52132470720",
        "username": "shopwithgoogle"
      },
      "tagged_user": [
        {
          "full_name": "Google",
          "followed_by_viewer": false,
          "id": "1067259270",
          "is_verified": true,
          "profile_pic_url": "https://.../google.jpg",
          "username": "google"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "latest_igtv_videos": [
    {
      "id": "2892596643067882496",
      "shortcode": "CgkkVI8jGwA",
      "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgkkVI8jGwA/",
      "taken_at_timestamp": 1659044430,
      "taken_at": "2022-07-28T21:40:30Z",
      "is_video": true,
      "display_url": "https://.../296019923_..._n.jpg",
      "dimensions": {
        "height": 995,
        "width": 640
      },
      "caption": "The votes are in! Congratulations to the five #DoodleForGoogle National Finalists...",
      "hashtags": ["DoodleForGoogle"],
      "mentions": [],
      "like_count": 10416,
      "comment_count": 132,
      "video_view_count": 66765,
      "video_duration": 28.733,
      "video_url": "https://.../igtv.mp4",
      "has_audio": true,
      "clips_music_attribution_info": {
        "artist_name": "amd",
        "song_name": "Original audio",
        "uses_original_audio": true,
        "should_mute_audio": false,
        "should_mute_audio_reason": "",
        "audio_id": "35013907618255255"
      },
      "is_published": true,
      "location": {
        "id": "213385402",
        "name": "New York, New York"
      },
      "has_upcoming_event": false,
      "comments_disabled": false,
      "like_and_view_counts_disabled": false,
      "viewer_can_reshare": true,
      "coauthor_producers": [],
      "pinned_for_users": [],
      "product_type": "igtv",
      "owner": {
        "id": "1067259270",
        "username": "google"
      },
      "tagged_user": []
    }
  ],
  "related_profiles": [
    {
      "id": "64421231679",
      "username": "datacentersatmeta",
      "full_name": "Meta Data Centers",
      "is_private": false,
      "is_verified": true,
      "profile_pic_url": "https://.../420640291_..._n.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "2491086563",
      "username": "surface",
      "full_name": "Microsoft Surface",
      "is_private": false,
      "is_verified": true,
      "profile_pic_url": "https://.../569809183_..._n.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "ig_status": "ok",
  "crawled_at": "2026-04-21T14:17:37.585Z"
}

Example dataset item when a profile is not found:

{
  "username": "11",
  "depth": 0,
  "source_username": null,
  "ig_status": "not_found",
  "message": "Profile not found or restricted",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/11/",
  "crawled_at": "2026-02-06T08:03:20.522Z"
}

Here, ig_status: "not_found" means Instagram did not return profile data for that username because the profile does not exist or access to it is restricted.

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Tips & troubleshooting

Don’t overload the actor. If you need to scrape large lists, split inputs into batches.

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Legal & ethical notice

You are responsible for ensuring your use of this actor complies with:

• Instagram’s Terms of Service
• Applicable laws and regulations (privacy, data protection, etc.)

Only scrape data you have the right to access, and avoid collecting personal data without a lawful basis.

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