Instagram Profile Scraper — One Bad Handle Never Kills Your Batch

You paste usernames. You get followers, engagement, bio contact, and Instagram's own suggested similar accounts — per profile, with a source URL on every field.

Why this, not another Instagram scraper

The category leader has 508 clients and a 2.54/5 rating, driven by 12.6% failure — a private or deleted profile in your batch used to destroy the whole run. This Actor scopes each profile independently: one failure costs you nothing and nobody else's data.

5 advantages

1. One bad handle never kills your batch. A private/deleted profile returns an error for that item only; every other profile still delivers.
2. Never billed on a failed lookup. Only profiles actually delivered are charged.
3. Lookalikes for free. Set a seed username and get Instagram's own "similar accounts" for it — no second scrape, no extra engine.
4. Contact verification level, always disclosed. published (found on the page) or mx_valid (domain's mail server confirmed). Never guessed.
5. Hard cost cap you control. Set maxTotalChargeUsd and the run can never bill above it.

Output

{
  "username": "examplebrand",
  "profile_url": "https://www.instagram.com/examplebrand/",
  "followers": 104384,
  "is_business": true,
  "category": "Retail",
  "engagement_rate": 0.021,
  "median_recent_likes": 2210,
  "public_contact": {
    "email": "hello@example.com",
    "verification_level": "mx_valid",
    "source": "https://example.com"
  },
  "lookalikes": [{"username": "similarbrand", "full_name": "Similar Brand"}],
  "status": "ok"
}

Pricing

Pay per event, base FREE-tier prices: $0.0015 per profile delivered, $0.0008 per recent post. 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-profile-lookalike-scraper.apify.actor/mcp

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

Related Actors

• Instagram Following & Related Scraper — who a profile follows, or its related suggested accounts
• YouTube Creator Lead Finder — cross-platform creator research on YouTube

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.