Instagram Creator Email Finder (UGC & Influencers)

What does Creator Contact Finder do?

Creator Contact Finder takes a list of Instagram handles and returns the public business contact for each creator: the email in their bio, plus emails, phone numbers and WhatsApp links on the creator's own link-in-bio page (Linktree, Beacons, Stan, bio.site, july.bio, their own website and up to 5 linked contact or media-kit pages).

Not included: emails that a creator shows only behind Instagram's Contact button (or the Email button in the app). Instagram shows those only to logged-in users, and this Actor never logs in, by design. If a creator's only email is behind that button, the row comes back as no_contact and is free.

Every email is tagged with where it was found (bio or link_in_bio, with the exact page URL) and what kind of contact it is (creator or management). Emails that belong to shops, affiliate platforms or brands linked from the creator's page (for example hello@shopmy.us, info@liketoknow.it or a brand's support address) are filtered out and reported in filteredVendorEmails, so you don't pay for them or email the wrong company.

Why use Creator Contact Finder?

• Influencer and UGC outreach: get one clean, deliverable contact per creator instead of a pile of mixed emails.
• Know who you're emailing: management and agency addresses (talent agencies, "mgmt" contacts) are labeled, so you can route pitches correctly.
• Pay per contact found: this Actor charges only for creators where a public contact was found. The profile scraper it uses is billed separately per profile (see pricing).
• Repeat lists without paying twice: skipPreviouslyDelivered remembers handles already delivered in earlier runs.

What data can Creator Contact Finder extract?

Field	Description
handle, profileUrl, fullName	Instagram profile identity
followers, isBusiness, igCategory, niche	Audience size, account type, category and niche tags from the bio
primaryEmail, primaryEmailType, primaryEmailSource	The best contact to use first
emails[]	Every public email with source, sourceUrl, type and reason
filteredVendorEmails[]	Shop, platform or brand emails removed, with the reason
phones[], whatsapp	Public phone and WhatsApp links from the link-in-bio page
linkInBioUrl, linkInBioPlatform, pagesScanned[]	What was crawled and the HTTP result
status, charged	ok, no_contact, not_found, private, error or not_scanned, and whether the row was billed

How to find creator emails

1. Paste Instagram handles, @handles or profile URLs into Instagram handles.
2. Optionally set follower limits, choose which email sources and types you want, and keep Exclude vendor emails on.
3. Click Start and download the Contacts view as CSV, Excel or JSON.

How much does it cost?

You pay two things, both billed to your Apify account:

1. This Actor: $0.01 per creator with a public contact (pay per event, event creator-contact). Creators with no contact, missing, private, failed or not-scanned profiles are not charged, and there is no per-row dataset fee. Users on the free Apify plan get up to 25 contacts per run.
2. Apify's Instagram Profile Scraper, which this Actor runs in your account to read the public profiles (the default profile source). That Actor is priced and billed separately by Apify for every profile it reads, whether or not a contact is found. In our test runs in October 2026 it cost about $0.0023 per profile (for example, $0.023 for 10 profiles). Check its current price on the Instagram Profile Scraper page, because Apify can change it.

Example: 100 handles where 60 creators have a public contact costs about 60 × $0.01 = $0.60 for this Actor, plus about 100 × $0.0023 = $0.23 for the profile scraper.

Set two limits to control spend:

• Maximum total charge on the run caps the $0.01 contact charges. The run stops cleanly when the cap is reached.
• Max spend on the profile scraper (USD) caps the scraper sub-runs. Handles it didn't reach come back as not_scanned and are free.

The run's RUN_SUMMARY record reports the scraper cost as profileScraperCostUsd. If Apify hadn't finished settling the charges when the run ended, profileScraperCostIsEstimate is true.

Input

{
  "handles": ["melissaa.ga", "@itsmelissabailey", "https://www.instagram.com/theonlyyennii/"],
  "maxCreators": 100,
  "excludeVendorEmails": true,
  "includeLinkInBio": true,
  "emailTypes": ["creator", "management"]
}

Output example

{
  "handle": "melissaa.ga",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/melissaa.ga/",
  "followers": 32687,
  "igCategory": "Digital creator",
  "niche": ["beauty"],
  "primaryEmail": "melissa@pctalent.co",
  "primaryEmailType": "management",
  "primaryEmailSource": "bio",
  "emails": [
    { "email": "melissa@pctalent.co", "source": "bio", "sourceUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/melissaa.ga/", "type": "management", "reason": "known management domain pctalent.co" }
  ],
  "filteredVendorEmails": [],
  "linkInBioUrl": "https://stan.store/melissagarcia",
  "linkInBioPlatform": "stan.store",
  "status": "ok",
  "charged": true
}

Tips

• Keep Exclude vendor emails on. It removes shop and affiliate addresses that other tools return as if they were the creator's.
• Use Email types = creator if you only want to reach creators directly.
• Turn on Include no-contact rows if you want a full audit of every handle. Those rows are free.
• Use skipPreviouslyDelivered for weekly lists so you never pay twice for the same creator.

Privacy and compliance

This Actor collects only public business contact information that creators chose to publish for brand inquiries: their public Instagram bio and the public pages they link from it. It does not log in to Instagram, use cookies or accounts, or access private profiles, DMs, followers lists or any non-public data. Private profiles return status: "private" with no contact data.

You are responsible for using the results lawfully. Personal data may be protected by GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA and similar laws. Have a legitimate reason for contacting each person, follow anti-spam rules such as CAN-SPAM and PECR (identify yourself, include an opt-out, honor unsubscribes), and don't resell or publish the data. Delete contacts you no longer need. If you're unsure, consult a lawyer. Read more in Apify's post on the legality of web scraping.

FAQ

Which profile source should I use? Use the default, Apify Instagram Profile Scraper (about $0.0023 per profile in our tests, billed to your Apify account by that Actor). The Direct source is experimental: Instagram usually answers logged-out requests with a login wall, so the Actor automatically falls back to the scraper.

What does not_scanned mean? You set a spend cap on the profile scraper and it was reached before these handles were read. They are free. Raise the cap and run them again.

Why didn't I get an email for some creators? Many creators don't publish one. Some show an email only behind Instagram's Contact button. This Actor does not read the Contact button, because Instagram only shows it to logged-in users and the Actor never logs in. Others put it on pages that need JavaScript or block bots. Those rows come back as no_contact and are free.

What counts as a "management" email? An address at a known talent agency or management company, one whose name contains words like "mgmt" or "talent", or one labeled "management" or "booking" in the bio.

Is this affiliated with Instagram? No. This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Instagram or Meta.