Instagram Profile Scraper
Pricing
from $1.75 / 1,000 results
Scrape Instagram profiles by handle: followers, follows, post count, business category and engagement averages, one row per account with its latest posts nested. $1.95 per 1,000 profiles: 25% below the Free plan price of apify/instagram-profile-scraper, and the same flat rate on every plan.
Row type
dataType
Optional
Always 'profile' in this Actor's dataset: every row is an account.
Collected at
collectedAt
Optional
When the snapshot this row came from was taken. Rows are served from a stored snapshot rather than fetched at read time, so this is the honest age of the data and not the time of the run. Profile and post rows only, for the reason given under inputUrl; a comments run logs the snapshot age instead of printing it on every row.
Input URL
inputUrl
Optional
The line from directUrls that produced this row, exactly as it was written - a profile URL, a bare handle, or a single post URL. Present so a multi-target run can be split back into its targets. Profile rows, post rows and ERROR rows only: since 2026-09-10 a comment row is exactly apify/instagram-comment-scraper's twelve fields plus any the listing adds, and that reference row has no inputUrl - join a comment back to its target through postUrl. An error row always carries it, because an input that produced no data is exactly the row a caller needs to match back to the line they sent.
ID
id
Optional
Instagram's own identifier: the profile id on a profile row, the media id on a post row, the comment id on a comment row (never the commenter's account id, which is not collected; absent on snapshots collected before 2026-09-04). Always a string - these exceed what a JavaScript number holds exactly, and quoting them is what keeps the last digits.
Username
username
Optional
The handle, without the leading @.
Full name
fullName
Optional
The display name on the profile, which is not the handle and need not be unique.
URL
url
Optional
Canonical instagram.com URL of the profile or post this row describes. Null on an error row whose input never resolved to either - a string that is not an Instagram URL has no canonical form to report.
Verified
verified
Optional
Whether Instagram shows the blue check on this account.
Private account
private
Optional
A private account exposes its header and nothing else; posts and comments will be absent. Named private rather than isPrivate since 2026-09-04, which is the spelling apify/instagram-scraper publishes beside verified.
Business account
isBusinessAccount
Optional
Null when the logged-out profile page did not say, which is not the same as false.
Business category
businessCategoryName
Optional
The self-declared business category, present only on professional accounts. Named businessCategoryName rather than categoryName since 2026-09-04, matching apify/instagram-scraper.
Followers
followersCount
Optional
Followers at the moment of collection. Instagram rounds large figures itself. Absent when the surface did not carry the figure; never 0 in its place.
Following
followsCount
Optional
Accounts this profile follows at the moment of collection. Absent when not carried, as for followersCount.
Posts
postsCount
Optional
The total Instagram declares for the account, which is normally larger than the number of post rows this run produced. Absent when the logged-out header omitted it; it is never replaced by postsInSnapshot.
Posts held
postsInSnapshot
Optional
How many posts the snapshot actually carries. The gap between this and postsCount is what the run did not walk.
Average likes
avgLikes
Optional
Computed over the posts in the snapshot, not over the account's whole history.
Average comments
avgComments
Optional
Mean comment count over the posts in this snapshot, not over the account's whole history.
Average video views
avgVideoViews
Optional
Mean view count over the video posts in this snapshot. Absent when none were collected.
Engagement rate (%)
engagementRatePct
Optional
(average likes + average comments) / followers, as a percentage. Zero followers yields null rather than a division by zero.
Latest posts
latestPosts
Optional
The account's most recent posts, nested inside its own row rather than written as rows of their own - the shape apify/instagram-profile-scraper publishes. Each entry carries the same post fields this codebase's post rows carry (shortCode, type, caption, hashtags, mentions, timestamp, likesCount, commentsCount, taggedUsers, dimensions and, with includeMediaUrls, the media URLs) minus the two that only mean something on a row of their own, dataType and inputUrl. Absent, never [], when the run collected no posts for the account: an empty array would say the account has never posted, which is a different claim.
[ { "shortCode": "DCMUrLltVlM", "type": "Image", "caption": "A new view of the Carina Nebula.", "timestamp": "2026-08-30T18:02:11.000Z", "likesCount": 412903, "commentsCount": 1363 }]Error code
error
Optional
Set only on an error row: the machine-readable slug for why this input produced no data, e.g. profile_not_found, post_not_found, collection_failed, input_refused. It is the same vocabulary the REST surface answers with, so one consumer can switch on both. A run writes one error row per input it could not collect, which is what makes the number of rows out equal the number of inputs in.
Error description
errorDescription
Optional
Set only on an error row: the sentence a human reads, saying what went wrong and usually what to do instead. Where error is for a program to branch on, this is for a person to act on.
Request error messages
requestErrorMessages
Optional
Set only on an error row: the raw messages collected while this input was being attempted, in order. A list even when there is one, so a consumer reading the first element never has to check the type first. Empty when the input was refused before anything was attempted.
Biography
biography
Optional
The account's bio, as written, newlines included. Absent from a row whose surface carried no bio: a post collected by its own URL names its owner but says nothing else about them, and an empty string there would read as an account that wrote nothing.
Profile picture URL
profilePicUrl
Optional
Signed CDN URL of the account's avatar. It EXPIRES, typically within days, exactly like the post media URLs - what is stored is a pointer, not a copy, and a run that needs the image should fetch it promptly. Absent when the surface carried none.
Link in bio
externalUrl
Optional
The destination of the first link in the account's bio, as the account typed it. Instagram puts the pinned link first, so this is the one the profile leads with. Accounts with several links have them all in externalUrls; accounts with none have neither column.
Link in bio, via Instagram
externalUrlShimmed
Optional
The same destination as externalUrl, but through Instagram's own signed redirector on l.instagram.com. That is what the profile page actually links to, so a consumer reproducing the page wants this one and a consumer following the link wants the other.
Links in bio
externalUrls
Optional
Every link in the account's bio, each as {url, title, lynx_url, link_type} - the shape apify/instagram-profile-scraper publishes. MINIMISED: Instagram sends six more keys per link (pin state, an internal id, a media type, an image, a creation source, an accent colour) and they are dropped at collection, because they style the button rather than describe the destination. ABSENT, NOT EMPTY, when the surface carried no link block at all; an empty list means it did and the account has no links.
Story highlights
highlightReelCount
Optional
How many story highlights the account has published, and ONLY when Instagram's response proved the total. The surface answers with one page of highlights rather than a count, so a number here means that page was the last one. Otherwise the column is absent - a page size published as a count would be a number nobody could tell was a floor.