Instagram User Search
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$0.01 / actor start
🔎 Instagram User Search | Who ranks for a keyword, and how big they are Search Instagram for accounts and get every hit with Instagram's own ranking position (0 = the top result) — so you can see who owns a keyword, not just who exists.
LIMITED_PERMISSIONS — how Apify's automated QA and every API-triggered run
starts an Actor — opening the store is refused with HTTP 403
(KeyValueStoreCollectionClient.getOrCreate, path /v2/key-value-stores).
That call sat in a || fallback chain and was never inside a try/catch of
ours, so the throw ended the run with exit code 91 and a reported FAILED run
with zero items. Every store open now goes through a wrapper that returns a
no-op store instead of throwing, so the free-run counter and the run SUMMARY
degrade and the actual work proceeds./v2/key-value-stores; it used a fixed limit=50, which silently
stopped containing gate stores once the account passed 50 of them — and the
account creates a new default store on every run, so that list grows on its
own. The lookup now pages (100 per page, up to 20 pages).arr[Math.floor(arr.length / 2)] yields the larger of the two middle
values, which biases the number upward — the exact bias a median exists to
remove. It now averages the two middle values.searchPosition for that keyword — the signal that shows who owns a keyword rather than who merely exists.fetch_search with select=users): half the cost of the v2 leg and it includes the ranking position. The v2 flat shape is also understood by the normaliser so a leg switch needs no rewrite.enrichTop, default 20 per keyword, capped at 60 per run) adds followers, following, posts, bio and external link through the profile leg; unenriched rows keep null counts and are flagged via enriched.