Instagram User Search Scraper

🔎 Turn Instagram keywords into profile lists

Built for marketers, researchers, agencies, and creator teams, Instagram User Search Scraper finds public Instagram accounts from your keywords. It saves one row per unique account with the first keyword that found it, account identity, country when Instagram exposes it, audience counts, business details, and public contact data when available. Use the rows to build creator lists, review brands, or export account data.

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📊 Instagram account rows

Each saved row is one unique public Instagram account. The Actor keeps the first eligible match for an account and ignores later duplicate matches. Its matchedKeyword field records the keyword tied to that first saved match. Rows include identity, privacy and verification flags, country when explicitly exposed, audience counts, business details, public links, and public contact fields when available. Missing optional values are null.

▶️ Search Instagram accounts by keyword

Run steps

1. Open the Actor's Input tab.
2. Add one or more keywords, such as vegan chef, Montreal photographer, or a brand name. Each term is searched independently.
3. Set an optional maximum number of unique accounts for the run. Leave it empty to return all available results until the source is exhausted.
4. Optionally choose an account type to keep only personal, business, or professional accounts.
5. Start the run and open the dataset when it finishes.

Use clear terms that describe a niche, person, brand, or business. Results depend on the public account matches available for each term, so the Actor is not a guaranteed exhaustive directory.

⚙️ Input

Input fields

Field	Type	What it does
keywords	array of strings	Required. Add one or more keywords, niches, people, brands, or businesses. Each term is searched independently.
minFollowers	integer (optional)	Keeps only accounts with at least this many public followers. Leave it empty to include accounts with any follower count.
maxFollowers	integer (optional)	Keeps only accounts with at most this many public followers. Leave it empty to include accounts with any follower count.
verifiedOnly	boolean	When enabled, keeps only accounts Instagram marks as verified. Leave it off to include verified and unverified accounts.
accountType	string (optional)	Keeps only personal, business, or professional accounts that Instagram identifies as that type.
maxItems	integer (optional)	Sets the maximum number of unique accounts across all search terms. Leave it empty to return all available results until the source is exhausted.

Example input

This is the public input from a successful current-beta run:

{
  "keywords": [
    "fitness coach"
  ],
  "maxItems": 1
}

Profile details are included when Instagram makes them public. There is no separate enrichment input.

🧾 Output

Output link

Field	Type	What it does
results	link	Opens the unique account rows in the default dataset's overview view.

Account rows

Each dataset row has the same account shape. The Actor saves the first eligible match for an account and does not add later duplicate matches. The matchedKeyword field records the submitted keyword tied to that first saved match. Country is copied only when a reliable public profile source explicitly provides it. The field is null when it is unavailable.

Field	Type	What it does
userId	string	Stable Instagram account ID.
username	string	Instagram account username.
fullName	string or null	Display name shown for the account, or null when unavailable.
country	string or null	Country explicitly exposed by a reliable public profile source, or null when unavailable. The Actor does not infer it from names, language, emojis, biography wording, or search terms.
profilePictureUrl	URL or null	Public profile-picture URL, or null when unavailable.
isPrivate	boolean	Whether Instagram marks the account as private.
isVerified	boolean	Whether Instagram marks the account as verified.
matchedKeyword	string	Submitted keyword tied to the account's first saved match.
biography	string or null	Public profile biography, or null when unavailable.
websiteUrl	URL or null	External website published on the profile, or null when unavailable.
followerCount	integer or null	Public follower count, or null when unavailable.
followingCount	integer or null	Public following count, or null when unavailable.
postCount	integer or null	Public post count, or null when unavailable.
isBusinessAccount	boolean or null	Whether Instagram identifies the profile as a business account, or null when unavailable.
category	string or null	Public business or creator category, or null when unavailable.
publicEmail	string or null	Email explicitly published by the account, or null when unavailable.
publicPhone	string or null	Phone number explicitly published by the account, or null when unavailable.

The row below is a genuine account row from the successful current-beta default-input run. This row includes a country that the public profile source exposed.

{
  "userId": "17841409649152381",
  "username": "fitnesscoachingteam",
  "fullName": "Fitness Coaching Team | Coach",
  "profilePictureUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/272022088_626829711910252_2257898438432190419_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s150x150_tt6&_nc_cat=106&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=f7ccc5&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InByb2ZpbGVfcGljLnd3dy42MTIuQzMifQ%3D%3D&_nc_ohc=FTHgDA_SVAYQ7kNvwFfDkp0&_nc_oc=Adpjet8WTvpjUqs0byGl4WwdnWZfeVQo-A1Y1GljSEtKMeGhtsHPSgDBXwJ8rX6kCjI&_nc_zt=24&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&_nc_ss=73a8c&oh=00_AQOj2pkNRu7Bj6OvJm_iMRg9H56S8V4pJGNzeGNhUabX2w&oe=6AC0A810",
  "isPrivate": false,
  "isVerified": false,
  "matchedKeyword": "fitness coach",
  "country": "France",
  "biography": "⚡ FCT – Fitness Coaching Team  \n📈 Développe ton activité de coach  \n🤝 +30 coachs accompagnés  \n👇 Rejoins-nous",
  "websiteUrl": "https://linktr.ee/fitnesscoachingteam",
  "followerCount": 483,
  "followingCount": 548,
  "postCount": 48,
  "isBusinessAccount": true,
  "category": "Fitness Trainer",
  "publicEmail": null,
  "publicPhone": null
}

Export the default dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML, or retrieve it through the Apify API.

💳 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. One account event applies when a unique Instagram account is successfully saved to your dataset. Each saved account uses the same event, whether optional public fields are present or not. The number of account events follows the number of unique accounts saved.

🔌 Integrations

Open the results in the Apify dataset, export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML, or read them through the Apify API.

❓ FAQ

What happens when the same account matches more than one keyword?

The Actor saves the first eligible account match and ignores later matches for that account. The saved row describes that first match only.

Why did I receive fewer accounts than maxItems?

maxItems is a cap, not a promised count. A term may have fewer available public matches, and some accounts may not have the required identity and status data. Leave maxItems empty to return all available results until the source is exhausted.

What happens when a keyword has no matches?

That term produces no account rows. Other terms can still return their own saved matches.

Can every account include an email or phone number?

No. Contact fields appear only when an account exposes them publicly. Unavailable optional values are null.

Can every account include a country?

No. Country is included only when Instagram's public profile-information data explicitly exposes it. The Actor does not guess from a name, language, emoji, biography, or search term. Otherwise the field is null.

Can the Actor access private profiles or private data?

No. It can return a public account's privacy flag, but it does not provide private-profile content or data Instagram does not expose publicly.

Does it search posts, Reels, hashtags, locations, followers, or following lists?

No. It searches public accounts by text keywords. Use a specialized Actor for those other sources.

Is this the official Instagram API?

No. It is a focused Actor for keyword-based public account discovery and structured exports. It does not provide every official API capability.

📝 Changelog

v2.0 (28-09-2026)

• Add a country field when Instagram publicly provides a country, and use null when it is unavailable.
• Replace matchedKeywords with matchedKeyword for the first keyword that found each account.
• Add an account type filter for personal, business, or professional accounts.

v1.1 (15-09-2026)

• Filter account results by minimum followers, maximum followers, or verified status.
• Keep results from other keywords when one keyword has no public account matches.

v1.0 (10-09-2026)

• Search all available public account results when no maximum is set.
• Save each account once and show the keyword that first found it.
• Include available public profile, audience, business, and contact details in account rows.
• Open the default dataset view labeled Instagram accounts.

v0.0

• Initial release.

🆘 Support

For issues, questions, or feature requests, file a ticket and I'll fix or implement it in less than 24h 🫡

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Made with ❤️ by Maxime Dupré