Social Media Influencer Scraper

Discover public influencer profiles across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube in one normalized dataset. Use it when an influencer-marketing agency, brand, talent scout, or AI agent needs a creator shortlist by niche or needs to enrich a known set of public profile URLs.

The actor returns one row per public creator profile with a consistent platform, profile URL, handle, display name, bio, audience size, verification signal, public links, and provider provenance. It is built for public-data discovery and does not require cookies, browser sessions, or login credentials from users.

What it returns

Field	Meaning
platform	instagram, tiktok, or youtube
profileUrl, handle, displayName	Stable public profile identity fields
bio, bioLink, externalLinks	Public creator description and linked sites
followerCount	Followers or YouTube subscribers when the platform provides them
contentCount, totalEngagement	Public aggregate content and engagement signals when available
verified, privateAccount, category	Provider-reported public account signals
discoveryQuery, provider, scrapedAt	Provenance for audits and repeatable workflows

Values that the platform does not expose are returned as null or an empty array. The actor never invents audience, engagement, verification, or contact data.

When to use it

• Build a cross-platform creator shortlist for a campaign, such as fitness coaches or sustainable-fashion creators.
• Filter discovered public profiles by minimum follower/subscriber count or platform verification.
• Enrich known public Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube profile URLs into one consistent dataset.
• Feed a CRM, outreach-review workflow, or AI-agent research task with creator-profile records.

Use the focused sibling actors when you need a single platform's deeper surface: post or video feeds, comments, transcripts, follower graphs, direct content downloads, or public email extraction. This actor does not retrieve private profiles, private messages, followers/following lists, individual posts, Reels, videos, or verified emails.

Input examples

Discover fitness creators across every supported platform

{
  "platforms": ["instagram", "tiktok", "youtube"],
  "searchQueries": ["fitness coach"],
  "maxProfilesPerQuery": 10,
  "maxTotalProfiles": 30,
  "minFollowerCount": 5000,
  "excludePrivateAccounts": true
}

Enrich a known public creator shortlist

{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@natgeo",
    "https://www.youtube.com/@Apify"
  ],
  "maxTotalProfiles": 10,
  "providerOrder": "scrapecreators-first"
}

You may also use tagged handles when a URL is inconvenient: instagram:@natgeo, tiktok:@natgeo, or youtube:@Apify. For keyword discovery, the actor queries each selected platform independently; it does not claim that accounts with the same name belong to the same person across platforms.

Output example

{
  "recordType": "influencer-profile",
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "handle": "creatorname",
  "displayName": "Creator Name",
  "bio": "Fitness coach and recipe creator",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@creatorname",
  "followerCount": 125000,
  "followingCount": 320,
  "contentCount": 412,
  "verified": false,
  "privateAccount": false,
  "bioLink": "https://creator.example",
  "externalLinks": ["https://creator.example"],
  "discoveryQuery": "fitness coach",
  "provider": "scrapecreators",
  "sourceType": "search",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-15T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Providers and reliability

ScrapeCreators is the default provider because it covers public Instagram profile discovery, TikTok user discovery, and YouTube channel search. SociaVault is used as a fallback for supported TikTok, YouTube, and direct-profile routes. Instagram keyword discovery is ScrapeCreators-only in the currently verified provider coverage; direct Instagram profile enrichment can fall back to SociaVault.

The actor records all route attempts in RUN_SUMMARY. A valid search with no matches returns VALID_EMPTY. If some sources succeed and others fail, it returns useful rows with PARTIAL. If every supported provider route fails without any useful profile, it fails with UPSTREAM_FAILED; missing owner-managed provider secrets yield CONFIG_ERROR. Both terminal records, OUTPUT and RUN_SUMMARY, are written for every outcome.

Pricing

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.00005 per run
Influencer profile	$0.01 per validated profile saved

Apify platform usage is charged separately under Pay per event + usage. The actor displays the event-cost cap at startup and stops at maxTotalProfiles, so a run capped at 50 profiles has at most $0.50005 in event charges before platform usage. A profile is charged only through the same SDK operation that persists its validated dataset row.

API and MCP use

Run the actor with a small, precise query for agent workflows. For example, an agent can ask for five verified TikTok fitness creators with:

{
  "platforms": ["tiktok"],
  "searchQueries": ["fitness coach"],
  "verifiedOnly": true,
  "maxProfilesPerQuery": 5,
  "maxTotalProfiles": 5
}

Use it for public creator discovery and profile enrichment. Do not use it for posts, videos, comments, transcripts, follower lists, private data, or contacting creators; select a dedicated actor for those tasks.

Responsible use

Use only public profile information and comply with the relevant platform terms, applicable law, and your outreach/privacy obligations. A verification badge, public bio link, or follower count is a platform signal—not proof of identity, audience quality, consent, or endorsement.

Related actors

• instagram-user-scraper for Instagram-only creator discovery.
• tiktok-user-search-scraper for TikTok-only profile search and deeper TikTok-focused filters.
• youtube-channel-scraper for known-channel enrichment.
• tiktok-profile-videos-scraper and tiktok-profile-posts-scraper for creator content feeds.