# Instagram Creator Email Finder — Influencer Contact API (`nexgendata/instagram-creator-email-finder`) Actor ⚠️ DEPRECATED — Returns empty datasets due to Instagram anti-scrape. Not commercially viable without paid bypass. Discover Instagram creators by hashtag, location, or username with Business/Creator email extraction. - **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/instagram-creator-email-finder.md - **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media, Marketing - **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $15.00 / 1,000 verified contact email founds This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Instagram Creator Email Finder Find public business/contact emails for Instagram creators — build influencer outreach lists for your marketing team. > Output is a prospect list for your sales team, assembled from public web and business sources. Use it in line with applicable outreach and privacy law. #### ✅ Pay only when we find it This actor charges on success — you're billed per result delivered, not per attempt. No match, no charge. ### 📊 What you get Clean JSON, one record per profile scanned (full output has 8 fields): - `handle` — Handle - `name` — Name - `bio` — Bio - `email` — Email - `external_url` — External url - `followers` — Followers - `category` — Category - `is_verified` — Is verified **Pricing:** $0.003 per profile scanned (Pay-Per-Event) — about **333 profile scanneds per $1**. ### 🤖 Use with AI agents Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and run prospecting on demand. **Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required. ### 🔗 Related lead-gen actors **The lead-gen workflow chain** — found leads? verify → enrich → push to CRM: 1. **Find:** [B2B Leads Finder](https://apify.com/nexgendata/b2b-leads-finder) · [Company Email Finder](https://apify.com/nexgendata/company-email-finder) · [Person Email Finder](https://apify.com/nexgendata/person-business-email-finder) · [Website Contact Scraper](https://apify.com/nexgendata/contact-info-scraper) · [Yellow Pages](https://apify.com/nexgendata/yellow-pages-scraper) 2. **Enrich:** [Company Enrichment](https://apify.com/nexgendata/company-enrichment-tool) · [B2B Contact Enricher](https://apify.com/nexgendata/b2b-contact-enricher) · [Lead List Enricher](https://apify.com/nexgendata/lead-list-enricher) · [Website Tech & Contact Audit](https://apify.com/nexgendata/local-business-tech-contact-audit) 3. **Verify & clean:** [Email Verification](https://apify.com/nexgendata/email-verification-tool) · [Bulk Email Validator](https://apify.com/nexgendata/email-validator) · [Lead List Cleaner](https://apify.com/nexgendata/b2b-lead-list-cleaner) 4. **Deliver:** [Leads to Notion CRM](https://apify.com/nexgendata/leads-to-notion-crm) **Front door — Sales Intelligence MCP:** the sales-intelligence agent that fronts this whole cluster → [Sales Intelligence MCP](https://apify.com/nexgendata/sales-intelligence-mcp) --- *Public web & business-source data, assembled as sales-team prospect lists.* # Actor input Schema ## `searchType` (type: `string`): How to discover Instagram creators. **hashtag** searches posts tagged with a keyword, **location** searches by place name, **username-list** skips discovery and runs profile lookup on a list you provide. ## `query` (type: `string`): Hashtag (without the #) or place name. Required when searchType is hashtag or location. Examples: 'fitness', 'cleanbeauty', 'San Francisco', 'Bali'. ## `usernames` (type: `array`): List of Instagram usernames to enrich (no @ prefix needed). Only used when searchType=username-list. Bypasses hashtag/location discovery and runs straight to profile + bio-link enrichment. ## `minFollowers` (type: `integer`): Drop creators with fewer than this many followers. Defaults to 10,000 (micro-influencer floor). Set to 0 to disable. ## `maxFollowers` (type: `integer`): Drop creators above this follower count. Leave empty for no upper cap. Combine with minFollowers to target a specific tier (e.g. 25K-250K for micro-to-mid influencers). ## `businessAccountsOnly` (type: `boolean`): When ON (default), only emit accounts switched to Business or Creator profile type — these expose Meta's verified `business_email` field directly, giving ~35% find rate before any bio/linktree fallback runs. ~30-45% of >5K-follower creators run Business/Creator profiles. Turn OFF to widen the funnel at the cost of much lower email find rate. ## `maxCreators` (type: `integer`): Hard cap on emitted creators. Each creator scanned bills $0.003; each email found bills $0.015. Defaults to 50. ## `followBioLinks` (type: `boolean`): When the creator has a single bio link (linktr.ee, beacons.ai, stan.store, lnk.bio, milkshake, carrd, or a personal website), fetch that page and extract mailto: + raw email regex. Adds ~15-20% to find rate. Disable to save HTTP calls. ## `country` (type: `string`): Two-letter ISO country code hint for the discovery step. Note: Instagram's public discovery is largely keyword-driven and not strictly geo-bounded. Examples: 'US', 'GB', 'DE', 'AU', 'BR'. ## `notionConnector` (type: `string`): Optional. Connect your Notion workspace and the discovered creators are also written as a Notion page in the same run — the Actor never sees your Notion credentials. Authorize a Notion MCP connector in Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations, then select it here. ## `notionParentId` (type: `string`): Optional. The Notion page ID to create the page under. If blank, Notion creates a private page in your workspace. ## `supabaseConnector` (type: `string`): Optional. Connect your own Supabase project and the results are also inserted into a table in the same run — the Actor never sees your Supabase credentials. Authorize a write-scoped, project-scoped Supabase MCP connector in Apify Console (Settings -> Integrations), then select it here. ## `supabaseTable` (type: `string`): Target table in the public schema (created if missing, with id, a jsonb data column, and a scraped_at timestamp). Default: nexgendata_leads. ## `supabaseProjectId` (type: `string`): Your Supabase project reference (e.g. abcdefghijklmnop). Required unless your connector URL is already project-scoped. Find it in your project URL: supabase.com/dashboard/project/THIS_PART. ## `deliveryDedup` (type: `boolean`): When on (default), records already delivered in a previous run are not delivered again to the same destination — so scheduled runs only push new items. Turn off to deliver every record on every run. ## Actor input object example ```json { "searchType": "hashtag", "query": "fitness", "usernames": [], "minFollowers": 10000, "businessAccountsOnly": true, "maxCreators": 50, "followBioLinks": true, "supabaseTable": "nexgendata_leads", "deliveryDedup": true } ```` # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "searchType": "hashtag", "query": "fitness", "usernames": [], "minFollowers": 10000, "businessAccountsOnly": true, "maxCreators": 50, "followBioLinks": true }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/instagram-creator-email-finder").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "searchType": "hashtag", "query": "fitness", "usernames": [], "minFollowers": 10000, "businessAccountsOnly": True, "maxCreators": 50, "followBioLinks": True, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("nexgendata/instagram-creator-email-finder").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "searchType": "hashtag", "query": "fitness", "usernames": [], "minFollowers": 10000, "businessAccountsOnly": true, "maxCreators": 50, "followBioLinks": true }' | apify call nexgendata/instagram-creator-email-finder --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/instagram-creator-email-finder", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Instagram Creator Email Finder — Influencer Contact API", "description": "⚠️ DEPRECATED — Returns empty datasets due to Instagram anti-scrape. Not commercially viable without paid bypass. Discover Instagram creators by hashtag, location, or username with Business/Creator email extraction.", "version": "0.0", "x-build-id": "6FMRfmWxfAyHj3bpm" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/nexgendata~instagram-creator-email-finder/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-nexgendata-instagram-creator-email-finder", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/nexgendata~instagram-creator-email-finder/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-nexgendata-instagram-creator-email-finder", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/nexgendata~instagram-creator-email-finder/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-nexgendata-instagram-creator-email-finder", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "searchType" ], "properties": { "searchType": { "title": "Discovery method", "enum": [ "hashtag", "location", "username-list" ], "type": "string", "description": "How to discover Instagram creators. **hashtag** searches posts tagged with a keyword, **location** searches by place name, **username-list** skips discovery and runs profile lookup on a list you provide.", "default": "hashtag" }, "query": { "title": "Search query", "type": "string", "description": "Hashtag (without the #) or place name. Required when searchType is hashtag or location. Examples: 'fitness', 'cleanbeauty', 'San Francisco', 'Bali'." }, "usernames": { "title": "Usernames (for username-list mode)", "uniqueItems": true, "type": "array", "description": "List of Instagram usernames to enrich (no @ prefix needed). Only used when searchType=username-list. Bypasses hashtag/location discovery and runs straight to profile + bio-link enrichment.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "minFollowers": { "title": "Minimum followers", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Drop creators with fewer than this many followers. Defaults to 10,000 (micro-influencer floor). Set to 0 to disable.", "default": 10000 }, "maxFollowers": { "title": "Maximum followers (optional)", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Drop creators above this follower count. Leave empty for no upper cap. Combine with minFollowers to target a specific tier (e.g. 25K-250K for micro-to-mid influencers)." }, "businessAccountsOnly": { "title": "Business/Creator accounts only (KEY FILTER)", "type": "boolean", "description": "When ON (default), only emit accounts switched to Business or Creator profile type — these expose Meta's verified `business_email` field directly, giving ~35% find rate before any bio/linktree fallback runs. ~30-45% of >5K-follower creators run Business/Creator profiles. Turn OFF to widen the funnel at the cost of much lower email find rate.", "default": true }, "maxCreators": { "title": "Max creators (hard cap)", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 500, "type": "integer", "description": "Hard cap on emitted creators. Each creator scanned bills $0.003; each email found bills $0.015. Defaults to 50.", "default": 50 }, "followBioLinks": { "title": "Follow bio link (linktree, beacons, stan.store, ...)", "type": "boolean", "description": "When the creator has a single bio link (linktr.ee, beacons.ai, stan.store, lnk.bio, milkshake, carrd, or a personal website), fetch that page and extract mailto: + raw email regex. Adds ~15-20% to find rate. Disable to save HTTP calls.", "default": true }, "country": { "title": "Country bias (ISO code, optional)", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter ISO country code hint for the discovery step. Note: Instagram's public discovery is largely keyword-driven and not strictly geo-bounded. Examples: 'US', 'GB', 'DE', 'AU', 'BR'." }, "notionConnector": { "title": "Deliver to Notion (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "Optional. Connect your Notion workspace and the discovered creators are also written as a Notion page in the same run — the Actor never sees your Notion credentials. Authorize a Notion MCP connector in Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations, then select it here." }, "notionParentId": { "title": "Notion parent page ID (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "Optional. The Notion page ID to create the page under. If blank, Notion creates a private page in your workspace." }, "supabaseConnector": { "title": "Deliver to Supabase (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "Optional. Connect your own Supabase project and the results are also inserted into a table in the same run — the Actor never sees your Supabase credentials. Authorize a write-scoped, project-scoped Supabase MCP connector in Apify Console (Settings -> Integrations), then select it here." }, "supabaseTable": { "title": "Supabase table name (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "Target table in the public schema (created if missing, with id, a jsonb data column, and a scraped_at timestamp). Default: nexgendata_leads.", "default": "nexgendata_leads" }, "supabaseProjectId": { "title": "Supabase project ID (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "Your Supabase project reference (e.g. abcdefghijklmnop). Required unless your connector URL is already project-scoped. Find it in your project URL: supabase.com/dashboard/project/THIS_PART." }, "deliveryDedup": { "title": "Deduplicate deliveries across runs", "type": "boolean", "description": "When on (default), records already delivered in a previous run are not delivered again to the same destination — so scheduled runs only push new items. Turn off to deliver every record on every run.", "default": true } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```