Instagram Following Scraper — Following, Related, Enriched

You paste one username. You get who they follow — or Instagram's own suggested similar accounts — with optional full profile enrichment on every account.

Why this, not another following scraper

The category leader has 242 clients and a 3.56/5 rating, driven by 7.4% failure. This Actor scopes each listed account independently and never bills a failed one — same discipline as the rest of this family.

5 advantages

1. Two honest modes, not a fragile third. following and related both work reliably. We tested a followers mode extensively and cut it — it silently returned nothing on every real account we tried, so we are not shipping something that doesn't work.
2. Related accounts, for free. related mode uses Instagram's own similar-accounts suggestions — no extra scrape.
3. Optional enrichment, same engine as our Profile Scraper. Turn on enrichProfiles and every listed account gets followers, engagement, and bio contact — the exact same fields, same price.
4. Never billed on a failed lookup.
5. Hard cost cap you control. Set maxTotalChargeUsd and the run can never bill above it.

Output

{
  "username": "sciencechannel",
  "profile_url": "https://www.instagram.com/sciencechannel/",
  "full_name": "Science Channel",
  "followers": 2643925,
  "public_contact": null,
  "status": "ok"
}

Pricing

Pay per event, base FREE-tier prices: $0.001 per account listed, $0.0008 per enriched profile. Paid Store plans pay less on every event — the largest plans reach $0.00044 on the cheapest event; the Pricing tab on this Actor's Store page is always the authority. No event is ever charged on an item that returns an error — a batch of 200 with one bad input bills 199.

Use it from an AI agent (MCP)

https://om-kh--instagram-following-scraper.apify.actor/mcp

One tool, instagram_following, same arguments as the Start form.

Related Actors

• Instagram Profile & Lookalike Scraper — full profile detail and related-account discovery
• TikTok Creator Search Scraper — cross-platform creator research on TikTok

Support

Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab on this Actor's Apify Store page, or message the author (om_kh) directly.