Instagram Affiliate & Influencer Promo Code Scraper

Apify Actor for discovering active affiliate Instagram creators, extracting UGC influencers, promo codes, sponsorship data, and filtering by niche.

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📌 Overview & Target Use Cases

Finding high-converting creators and viral product videos on Instagram is hard. Official APIs restrict access, and manual searching takes dozens of hours.

Instagram Influencer & Reels Affiliate Scraper is a specialized extraction tool that automates e-commerce product research, UGC creator discovery, and influencer outreach by extracting structured data from Instagram Reels, affiliate marketing videos, promo codes, and creator profiles.

Target Use Cases:

• E-Commerce & DTC Brands: Discover top affiliate marketing creators promoting products in your specific niche.
• Influencer Marketing Agencies: Build campaign-ready lead lists of Instagram creators.
• Market Researchers: Track promo codes, discount strategies, creator handles, and video virality analytics.

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⚙️ Key Features

• Niche Filter: Narrow results to your exact industry. Provide keywords like ["skincare", "retinol"] or ["fitness", "protein"] to return only creators posting in your niche — eliminating irrelevant coupon aggregators automatically.
• Niche & Keyword Search: Search affiliate hashtags (e.g., #discountcode, #promocode) combined with your niche filter to surface creators who are actively promoting products in your space.
• Creator Lead Extraction: Automatically collects creator handles, sponsorship status (Paid partnership labels), and video URLs for influencer discovery.
• Collab Post Detection: Identifies co-authored (Collab) posts to help you find influencers doing official brand collaborations.
• Advanced Promo Code Extraction: Automatically finds and extracts discount codes from video captions (e.g., Use code: NOTUS20, promo: GLOW20, discount: SKIN10). The extraction engine handles varied caption formats, optional separators, and common false-positive patterns like Save More or promotions.
• Clean Lead Consolidation: Multiple posts from the same creator are merged into a single lead with combined promo codes and a posts_found counter — ensuring you only pay for unique, actionable creator leads.
• Reliable Data Pipeline: Results depend on Instagram's public hashtag accessibility — login-gated content or restricted hashtags may return fewer results.

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📥 Input Example

{
  "searchQueries": ["#discountcode", "#promocode"],
  "nicheKeywords": ["skincare", "beauty", "retinol"],
  "resultsLimit": 50
}

Tip: For best results, use explicit affiliate hashtags (#discountcode, #promocode, #couponcode) combined with your niche keywords. Niche-only hashtags like #skincare yield ~15% hit rate; affiliate hashtags yield ~60% before niche filtering.

When using nicheKeywords: set resultsLimit to 200+. Niche content density in generic affiliate hashtags is ~3–5%, so a limit of 50 may return only 1–2 leads per run. A limit of 200 yields ~8–15 niche-targeted leads.

📊 Sample Output Data (JSON)

{
  "creator_handle": "skincare.guru",
  "creator_name": "Anna Smith",
  "is_sponsored": true,
  "is_collab": false,
  "posts_found": 2,
  "promo_codes": ["GLOW20", "SKIN10"],
  "caption": "Get glowing skin today! #ad Use code GLOW20 for 20% off at checkout. Also try SKIN10 for the bundle!",
  "likes": 14500,
  "views": 250000,
  "comments": 320,
  "post_url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/...",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Note: Follower count is not included in this Actor's output scope. This Actor focuses on affiliate signal extraction (promo codes, sponsorship labels, engagement metrics).

💳 Pricing Structure

This Actor uses Apify's Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model. You only pay for the exact affiliate leads generated — $4.00 per 1,000 results.