Instagram Followers Scraper

Introduction

This Apify actor scrapes the followers of any public Instagram user. Provide a username or profile URL, and the actor will fetch up to your specified number of followers. For each follower, the actor can also extract emails, phone numbers, and social links from their bio (optional).

Features

• Scrape followers by username or profile URL
• Set a maximum number of followers to fetch
• Optionally extracts emails, phone numbers, and social links from each follower's bio
• Uses residential proxy by default (no proxy setup needed)
• Outputs a flat list of followers with key profile info and contact fields

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
username	String	Yes	Instagram username (e.g. cristiano) or profile URL
max_results	Integer	No	Maximum number of followers to fetch (default: 100, min: 1, max: 10000)
cookies	Array	Yes	Instagram authentication cookies (JSON array of name/value pairs, see below)
extract_contacts	Boolean	No	If true, extract emails, phone numbers, and social links from each follower's bio (default: true)

Example Input

{
  "username": "cristiano",
  "max_results": 50,
  "extract_contacts": true,
  "cookies": [
    { "name": "sessionid", "value": "YOUR_SESSIONID" },
    { "name": "csrftoken", "value": "YOUR_CSRFTOKEN" },
    { "name": "ds_user_id", "value": "YOUR_USERID" }
  ]
}

or

{
  "username": "https://www.instagram.com/cristiano/",
  "extract_contacts": false,
  "cookies": [
    { "name": "sessionid", "value": "YOUR_SESSIONID" },
    { "name": "csrftoken", "value": "YOUR_CSRFTOKEN" },
    { "name": "ds_user_id", "value": "YOUR_USERID" }
  ]
}

How to Get Instagram Cookies

1. Log into Instagram in your browser
2. Install the Cookie Editor extension (Chrome/Edge)
3. Open Instagram and click the Cookie Editor icon
4. Export cookies as JSON and paste the array in the cookies field
5. For a video guide, see this tutorial

Output

Each follower is output as a flat object, e.g.:

{
  "pk": "58812734417",
  "username": "kiyak_iyu",
  "full_name": "kiyakiyu🌸",
  "is_private": false,
  "is_verified": false,
  "profile_pic_url": "https://instagram.fadd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.2885-19/521744297_17958103781966418_6490265124352276860_n.jpg?...",
  "emails": ["contact@kiyakiyu.com"],
  "phones": ["+1-555-123-4567"],
  "social_links": ["https://twitter.com/kiyakiyu"]
}

• emails: All email addresses found in the follower's bio (if extract_contacts is true)
• phones: All phone numbers found in the follower's bio (if extract_contacts is true)
• social_links: All social/profile links found in the follower's bio (if extract_contacts is true)

Usage

Apify Console

1. Go to Apify Console
2. Find this actor (instagram-followers-scraper)
3. Enter the username or profile URL, max_results, cookies, and (optionally) extract_contacts
4. Run the actor and view/download results in the dataset

Apify API

curl -X POST \
  https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/logical_scrapers~instagram-followers-scraper/runs \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN' \
  -d '{
    "username": "cristiano",
    "max_results": 50,
    "extract_contacts": true,
    "cookies": [
      { "name": "sessionid", "value": "YOUR_SESSIONID" },
      { "name": "csrftoken", "value": "YOUR_CSRFTOKEN" },
      { "name": "ds_user_id", "value": "YOUR_USERID" }
    ]
  }'

Apify CLI

apify run -d '{
  "username": "cristiano",
  "max_results": 50,
  "extract_contacts": false,
  "cookies": [
    { "name": "sessionid", "value": "YOUR_SESSIONID" },
    { "name": "csrftoken", "value": "YOUR_CSRFTOKEN" },
    { "name": "ds_user_id", "value": "YOUR_USERID" }
  ]
}'

Notes

• Instagram authentication cookies are required.
• Uses residential proxy by default for reliability.
• Only public profiles can be scraped.
• If extract_contacts is true (default), the actor makes an additional request per follower to extract emails, phones, and social links from their bio. If false, only the follower list is fetched (faster, less data).

Support

For help or custom solutions, contact: coredev.dan@gmail.com

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