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

2.8

(9)

Developer

Louis Deconinck

Actor stats

Bookmarked

3.4K

Total users

304

Monthly active users

8.7 days

Issues response

2 months 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

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CLI

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HTTP

MCP

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🔔 Instagram Following Scraper OpenAPI definition

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By defining machine-readable API specifications, OpenAPI allows AI models like GPTs to understand and use varied data sources, improving accuracy. This accelerates development, reduces errors, and provides context-aware responses, making OpenAPI a core component for AI applications.

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

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