Instagram Scraper

🚀 The Ultimate Instagram Profile Scraper

This is a fast, reliable, and stealthy Instagram Profile Scraper designed to extract public metadata from Instagram profiles without needing a login.

If you are building lead generation lists, monitoring influencers, or analyzing social media metrics, this tool provides exactly what you need quickly and cost-effectively.

🌟 Features

• No Login Required: Scrapes public data safely. You do not need to risk your own Instagram account or provide session cookies.
• Lightning Fast: Uses optimized headless browser techniques (Playwright) and skips downloading heavy images to ensure blazing fast extraction speeds.
• Robust Extraction: Instead of relying on fragile CSS classes that Instagram changes daily, it extracts data directly from the page's core meta tags.
• Recent Posts: Automatically captures the URLs of the user's most recent posts.

💰 Pricing & Cost Estimation

This Actor is priced competitively on a Pay-per-event model. You only pay for what you successfully scrape!

• Price: $1.00 per 1,000 profiles ($0.001 per successful scrape).
• Why this price? The market standard for Instagram profile scrapers is currently between $1.50 and $2.60 per 1,000 results. Because this is a new, highly optimized Actor, we are offering it at an introductory rate of $1.00 / 1k results to help you scale your data pipelines affordably!

📥 Input Configuration

The Actor takes a very simple input. You just provide the list of Instagram profile URLs you want to scrape.

{
  "profiles": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/apifytech/",
    "https://www.instagram.com/instagram/"
  ],
  "maxPosts": 10
}

📤 Output Example

The data is exported in standard Apify Datasets, meaning you can easily download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, or send it directly to Zapier/Make.

{
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/apifytech/",
  "username": "apifytech",
  "name": "Apify",
  "followers": "15.2K",
  "following": "200",
  "postsCount": "350",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-13T10:00:00.000Z",
  "recentPosts": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/p/abcdefg123/",
    "https://www.instagram.com/p/xyz890qw/"
  ]
}

🛡️ Best Practices & Anti-Blocking

Instagram has strict anti-bot systems. While this Actor is optimized to avoid blocks:

• Use Apify Proxies: We highly recommend running this Actor using Apify Residential Proxies for maximum reliability when scraping thousands of profiles.
• Pacing: If you are scraping tens of thousands of profiles, consider splitting them into smaller batches to ensure the highest success rate.