Instagram Email & Phone Scraper

Pull public contact details from any Instagram profile — email, phone, WhatsApp, category and bio links — with no login and no cookies. Give it usernames or profile URLs. It reads the profile's own contact fields, then follows the link in bio, expands Linktree-style pages into the sites behind them, and reads those sites' contact pages. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input	What you get
nasa	Profile fields plus every contact found on nasa.gov's contact pages
https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/	Same — a bare handle, an @handle and a full URL are the same input
A list of 500 handles	One row per profile, contacts split into the business's own and third-party

Pure HTTP. No browser, no CAPTCHA solver, no cookies, no account risk.

Why Use This Scraper?

• It looks past the bio link. Most contact scrapers fetch the external URL once and stop. This one reads the contact, about and imprint pages on that domain, which is where role addresses and phone numbers actually live.
• Link aggregators are expanded. A Linktree, Taplink, Beacons, Komi or Stan.store page is a menu, not a business site — the contacts sit one hop further out. 38 aggregator hosts are recognised, and child links are read from both the markup and the embedded JSON some of them use.
• Measured, not claimed. Over 30 business profiles sampled from ten hashtags: the profile alone yields an email on 15 of 30, one fetch of the bio link yields 17, and the full scan yields 20 with 33 emails against 20. Phone coverage goes from 8 rows to 24.
• Somebody else's contacts are labelled as such. A creator's Linktree often lists affiliate brands and stockists. Their addresses never land in emails — they go to thirdPartyEmails with the domain they came from, and only when you ask for them. Mailing them reaches the wrong company.
• WhatsApp too. wa.me and api.whatsapp.com links are normalised into a whatsapp field, on both the profile and the pages scanned.
• You pay for contacts, not for rows. A profile with nothing to find costs a fraction of a profile that yields four addresses and a phone number.

How It Works

1. Resolve — each handle, @handle or profile URL is normalised and looked up once. One request per profile, about 1.3 KB, and it carries Instagram's own public email, phone, category and bio links.
2. Read the profile — emails and phones from the contact button and the bio text, plus every bio link.
3. Follow the link in bio — an aggregator page is fetched and its child links extracted; anything else is treated as the business's own website.
4. Read the site — the homepage plus /contact, /contact-us, /kontakt, /about, /about-us, /impressum and /contacto, direct-first, with a proxy only when a page refuses the direct request.
5. Emit — one flat row per profile, with the pages it scanned listed so every contact is traceable.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Notes
usernames	array of strings	Yes	Bare usernames, @handles or profile URLs, mixed freely.
scrapeLinkInBio	boolean	No	Follow the bio link and read the site behind it. Default true. Turn it off for profile fields only — faster and cheaper.
maxChildLinks	integer	No	How many outbound links to open from an aggregator page, one per host. Default 3, max 10.
includeThirdPartyContacts	boolean	No	Also scan linked brands whose domain does not match the profile, returning their contacts in the thirdParty* fields. Default false.

Example input

{
    "usernames": ["nasa", "https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/", "hello.bleach"],
    "scrapeLinkInBio": true,
    "maxChildLinks": 3
}

Output Schema

One dataset row per profile.

{
    "username": "nasa",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/nasa/",
    "displayName": "NASA",
    "biography": "Making the seemingly impossible, possible. ✨",
    "category": null,
    "isPrivate": false,
    "isVerified": true,
    "isBusiness": true,
    "followersCount": 104351561,
    "igPublicEmail": "public-inquiries@hq.nasa.gov",  // Instagram's own contact button
    "igPublicPhone": null,
    "emails": ["public-inquiries@hq.nasa.gov", "hqnews-join@newsletters.nasa.gov"],
    "email": "public-inquiries@hq.nasa.gov",          // best single pick
    "phones": ["2023580001", "2023584338"],
    "phone": "2023580001",
    "whatsapp": [],
    "thirdPartyEmails": [],                            // contacts of brands the profile links to
    "thirdPartyPhones": [],
    "thirdPartySources": [],
    "socials": { "facebook": ["https://facebook.com/nasa"], "twitter": ["https://x.com/nasa"] },
    "externalUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov",
    "bioLinks": [{ "title": null, "url": "https://www.nasa.gov" }],
    "isAggregatorLink": false,
    "childLinks": [],
    "pagesScanned": ["https://www.nasa.gov"],
    "contactsFound": 8,
    "contactsWithheld": 0,                             // found but not delivered: the run's cost limit refused to bill them
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T05:31:44.108Z"
}

A profile that cannot be read returns a row with error, message and errorKind instead, so a bad handle in a list of 500 never costs you the run.

Pricing

Pay per event, so a profile with nothing to find costs a fraction of one that yields a full contact card.

Event	Price	When
Profile	$0.002	One per profile returned
Contact found	$0.005	Per distinct email, phone or WhatsApp number, capped at 12 per profile
Actor start	$0.00005	Once per run

A profile with a single contact costs about $0.007. A profile with nothing findable costs $0.002. Contacts belonging to third-party brands are never billed.

Use Cases

• Agency lead lists — pull contact details for a hashtag or location's businesses, then filter by category and followersCount.
• Influencer outreach — a creator's press or booking address is usually on the site behind the bio link, not in the bio.
• CRM enrichment — feed handles you already have and fill in email, phone and website.
• Local business prospecting — salons, gyms, restaurants and studios publish a phone number on their contact page far more often than in their Instagram bio.

FAQ

Do I need to log in or provide cookies? No. Nothing in this actor touches an account, so there is no session to lose and no ban risk.

Why is emails empty when the profile clearly has a website? Either the site published no address on the pages scanned, or it refused the request. pagesScanned shows what was read; a site behind an interactive challenge is reported rather than guessed at.

Why are some contacts in thirdPartyEmails instead of emails? Because the domain they came from does not match the profile. A Linktree that lists three sponsor brands produces three sets of contacts that are not the creator's, and quietly merging them would hand you the wrong company's inbox.

Are private accounts supported? Their profile fields are returned, including the public email when Instagram exposes one. There is no post or follower data to read, and none is attempted.

Can it find an email that exists nowhere public? No. Everything returned is published on the profile or on a page the profile links to. There is no guessing of firstname.lastname@company.com patterns.

Notes & Limitations

• A few aggregator hosts render entirely in the browser (visitstore.bio is one) and expose no links to an HTTP client. Those rows come back with isAggregatorLink: true and childLinks: [] rather than a fabricated result.
• Phone numbers taken from a page come from tel: links, which the page author declared deliberately. Loose digit strings in markup are not treated as phone numbers.
• Instagram's own public_email is only present on accounts that filled in a contact button, which is a minority of personal accounts and most business ones.
• phones keeps the site's own formatting where it has one.

🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

The input is two fields deep and the output is flat, so this works well as a tool call. Pass usernames and read email, phone and whatsapp per row; contactsFound tells an agent in one integer whether the lookup succeeded. pagesScanned gives provenance for every contact, which matters when an agent has to justify an outreach decision. Available over the Apify API and MCP.

Support

Found a profile it handles badly? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab with the handle, and it gets looked at.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor collects only information that is publicly visible without logging in — an Instagram profile's own public fields, and pages that the profile links to. It does not log in, bypass authentication, or access private accounts' content. You are responsible for how you use the data, including compliance with GDPR, CAN-SPAM, ePrivacy and any other law that applies to contacting people. Contact details of identifiable individuals are personal data in most jurisdictions: have a lawful basis before you use them, and honour opt-outs.

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