Pricing

Pay per event

🔔 Instagram Following Scraper

🚀 Instantly scrape who any Instagram user follows — no login needed. Just drop a profile URL, get thousands of “Following” users in seconds. Perfect for growth hacking, competitor research, and lead gen. Fast, cheap, reliable. Built by a top 1% Apify dev.

Pricing

Pay per event

Rating

2.9

(9)

Developer

Louis Deconinck

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

300

Monthly active users

9.4 days

Issues response

a month ago

Last modified

Categories

Social media

Lead generation

Automation

You can access the 🔔 Instagram Following Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

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🔔 Instagram Following Scraper OpenAPI definition

OpenAPI is a standard for designing and describing RESTful APIs, allowing developers to define API structure, endpoints, and data formats in a machine-readable way. It simplifies API development, integration, and documentation.

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You can download the OpenAPI definitions for 🔔 Instagram Following Scraper from the options below:

OpenAPI.json

If you’d like to learn more about how OpenAPI powers GPTs, read our blog post.

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