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Instagram Related Accounts
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Instagram Related Accounts

Instagram Related Accounts

Under maintenance

Discover Instagram lookalike accounts by crawling related profiles. Start from any username to find similar creators, competitors, and influencers in any niche. Get enriched data including follower counts, engagement rates, bios, and contact emails.

Pricing

Pay per event

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Developer

thekrenefx

thekrenefx

Maintained by Community

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Total users

6

Monthly active users

7 days ago

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Instagram Related Accounts Scraper

Apify actor that discovers Instagram lookalike accounts by crawling Instagram's "related accounts" feature.

Features

  • Crawl related accounts from any public Instagram profile
  • Configurable depth (1-3 levels)
  • Full profile scraping including:
    • Follower/following counts
    • Bio and external URLs
    • Email extraction from bio
    • Engagement metrics (likes, comments, engagement rate)
    • Recent posts data
  • Deduplication across crawl paths
  • Residential proxy support for avoiding rate limits

Input

FieldTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
usernamestringYes-Instagram username to start from
depthintegerNo1Crawl depth (1-3). Depth 1 ≈ 50 accounts, Depth 2 ≈ 2500 accounts
delayMinintegerNo2000Minimum delay between requests (ms)
delayMaxintegerNo5000Maximum delay between requests (ms)
proxyConfigurationobjectNoResidentialProxy settings

Output

Each discovered account is saved with:

{
"username": "dereklunsford_",
"userId": "243406982",
"fullName": "Derek Lunsford",
"isVerified": true,
"isPrivate": false,
"followerCount": 2500000,
"followingCount": 500,
"postCount": 1200,
"biography": "IFBB Pro...",
"bioEmails": ["contact@example.com"],
"engagementRate": 3.2,
"avgLikesPerPost": 45000,
"discoveredVia": "cbum",
"depth": 1
}

Usage

Via Apify Console

  1. Go to the actor page
  2. Enter the seed username
  3. Set desired depth
  4. Run the actor

Via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_ACTOR_ID/runs" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
-d '{"username": "cbum", "depth": 1}'

Cost Estimation

DepthApprox AccountsEstimated Time
1~502-5 minutes
2~2,5001-2 hours
3~125,00010-20 hours

Limitations

  • Instagram typically returns ~50 related accounts per profile
  • Rate limits may slow down crawling
  • Private accounts are skipped
  • No follower list access (only Instagram's related accounts algorithm)