Instagram Creator Finder

Find Instagram creators for brand partnerships, UGC research and niche discovery. Enter topic hashtags, then compare public profiles using follower counts, bios, verification and matching post captions.

What you get

• One row per unique creator discovered in the run.
• Username, profile link, display name, biography, followers and following.
• Available verification, privacy and post-count fields.
• A relevance score with separate bio/name and caption evidence.
• Requested topics, actual source hashtags and supporting captions.

Unknown values remain null. The Actor does not provide audience demographics, guaranteed contact emails or access to private content.

Quick start

1. Enter one or more hashtags such as skincare, fitness or hiking, without spaces.
2. Choose follower limits and a maximum number of creators.
3. Use minRelevance: 50 for stronger bio/name matches, or 0 to review all discovered candidates.
4. Set your maximum run charge, then start the Actor.
5. Review Creator shortlist, Profile metrics or Discovery evidence and export the dataset to CSV, Excel or JSON.

{
  "keywords": ["skincare"],
  "minFollowers": 1000,
  "maxFollowers": 1000000,
  "minRelevance": 50,
  "maxResults": 10,
  "maxAuthorsPerKeyword": 12,
  "maxEnrichProfiles": 12,
  "maxHashtagRetries": 1,
  "region": "US"
}

The result limit is a maximum. Discovery coverage and your filters determine how many matching creators are available.

Pricing

Event	Price
Instagram page request	$0.10 per attempted page request
Creator saved to the dataset	$0.02 per creator
Run start	$0.05 per started GB of memory, minimum one GB

At the default 2 GB memory, the start fee is $0.10. Discovery pages, profile pages and retries are page requests. Failed or blocked requests and profiles excluded by your filters are still billed because the lookup was attempted. A creator written to a later run is charged again.

Examples at 2 GB:

• 1 discovery page + 12 profile requests + 10 saved creators: $1.60.
• 3 discovery attempts + 8 profile requests + 3 saved creators: $1.26.
• 1 discovery page + 3 profile requests, all excluded by filters: $0.50.

These are examples, not guaranteed totals. Related hashtags, retries and the number of profiles read change the amount. Additional services you configure separately can have their own costs. There is no additional charge for captions attached to a saved creator.

Set a maximum run charge to control spending. The Actor reserves room for result writes and stops collecting when its request allowance is reached. A small budget may be used by discovery attempts before any creator can be saved. A budget-limited run reports PARTIAL and a stopping reason.

Main settings

Setting	Meaning
keywords	1–10 topic hashtags. Discovery may expand to related hashtags.
minFollowers / maxFollowers	Follower range; 0 disables a bound. Unknown follower counts are excluded.
minRelevance	Minimum relevance, 0–100.
verifiedOnly	Require Instagram's available verification flag.
excludePrivate	Exclude accounts marked private; private content is never accessed.
maxResults	Up to 200 saved creators.
maxAuthorsPerKeyword	Discovery candidates inspected per topic, up to 100.
maxEnrichProfiles	Profile-read cap, up to 400. Lower values reduce work and cost.
maxHashtagRetries	Retries per inaccessible hashtag, 0–5.
region	Connection country, not the creator's or audience's country.

The default discovery caps are 12 authors per topic and 24 profile reads. Broad collection can cost more even if your result limit is small.

How discovery and relevance work

Discovery samples authors of posts found through hashtag pages. It is not a complete creator directory or a guarantee of the newest posts.

If a requested hashtag is inaccessible, the Actor can retry and try related tags. For example, skincare may use skincaretips. The run summary records every attempted tag. Each creator includes discoveredIn for the requested topic and sourceTags for the actual successful tags. This Actor is intended for topic discovery rather than exact-hashtag auditing.

Relevance is a keyword/synonym heuristic:

• high: a term matches the bio or display name; the score reflects the proportion of input topics matched there.
• low: only a discovered post caption matches; score 30.
• none: no supported text match; score 0.

A match does not verify niche expertise or audience quality. Multiple input topics can lower the score even for a relevant creator.

Output

Field	Description
username, profileUrl, fullName	Creator identity and profile link.
biography, followers, following	Available public profile information at collection time.
isVerified, isPrivate	Available Instagram account flags.
mediaCount, userId	Available post count and profile identifier; may be null.
topicConfirmation	Relevance score, confidence and matched topic lists.
discoveredIn, sourceTags, sourceCaptions	Discovery topics, actual hashtags and supporting captions.
observedAt	UTC collection timestamp.

The run's Summary contains counts of discovered, read, excluded and saved profiles; filter reasons; discovery sources; billing counters; and any stopping reason. Valid zero matches are successful. A complete access/extraction failure is reported as failed.

API and integrations

Run through the Apify API using Actor ID 09uEacqy01yPkmCga:

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/09uEacqy01yPkmCga/runs
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN
Content-Type: application/json

Use the JSON example above as the request body. You can also run saved Tasks, schedule repeat research, and connect the dataset to your own workflows.

Reliability

Instagram can limit access or change its public pages. Availability varies by hashtag and session. Filtering and collection caps can produce fewer results than requested. Review discovery evidence before using a creator in a campaign.