Instagram Followers & Following Scraper – No Login / No Cookies

Export Instagram followers or following lists from public profiles at scale.

Input one or multiple Instagram usernames, choose whether you want to scrape Followers or Following, set a results limit, and get clean structured data ready for JSON, CSV, Excel, API workflows, lead generation, influencer research, and audience analysis.

No Instagram login, cookies, or session setup required.

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🚀 Test Before You Scale

We intentionally keep the free tier accessible so users can properly test the Actor with real data before committing to larger paid runs.

You can validate the output, check the data quality, and confirm it works for your workflow without facing a high upfront cost.

Free users are limited by the available run budget.
Paid users are limited by the requested results and max cost per run.

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✅ What This Actor Does

• Scrapes Instagram followers from public profiles.
• Scrapes Instagram following from public profiles.
• Supports multiple usernames in a single run.
• Automatically paginates until reaching resultsLimit per username.
• Exports clean structured data.
• Works without Instagram cookies or login.
• Includes retry and failover logic.
• Supports budget-aware execution.
• Returns data ready for analysis, automation, or export.

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💡 Use Cases

This Actor is useful for:

• Competitor audience analysis
• Influencer discovery
• Lead generation
• Social media research
• Audience enrichment
• Creator discovery
• Brand monitoring
• Growth research
• Marketing prospecting
• Building Instagram audience datasets

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🔧 Input Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
Account	Array of strings	Yes	Instagram usernames to process. Example: ["mrbeast", "nasa"]
resultsLimit	Integer	Yes	Maximum number of results to return per username
dataToScrape	String	Yes	Choose "Followers" or "Following"

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📥 Example Input

{
  "Account": [
    "mrbeast",
    "nasa"
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 200,
  "dataToScrape": "Followers"
}

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📤 Output

The Actor stores results in the default dataset.
You can export the data as:

• JSON
• CSV
• Excel
• XML
• API

Each result contains profile-level information about a follower or following account.

Output Fields

Field	Description
username_scrape	The Instagram username you requested
type	Either Followers or Following
id	Instagram user ID
username	Instagram handle of the extracted profile
full_name	Full name of the profile
is_private	Whether the profile is private
is_verified	Whether the profile is verified
profile_pic_url	Profile picture URL

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📦 Example Output

[
  {
    "username_scrape": "mrbeast",
    "type": "Followers",
    "id": "4014759590",
    "username": "realcolinfurze",
    "full_name": "colin furze",
    "is_private": false,
    "is_verified": true,
    "profile_pic_url": "https://..."
  },
  {
    "username_scrape": "mrbeast",
    "type": "Followers",
    "id": "71544071714",
    "username": "drink.love",
    "full_name": "Drink Love",
    "is_private": false,
    "is_verified": false,
    "profile_pic_url": "https://..."
  }
]

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🧠 Why Use This Actor?

• No Instagram login required
• No cookies required
• Multiple accounts supported
• Clean dataset output
• Auto-pagination included
• Good for large exports
• Budget-aware execution
• Designed for real workflows, not just testing
• Fast support and active maintenance

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⚠️ Limitations

• Private Instagram accounts cannot be scraped.
• Restricted or unavailable profiles may return no results.
• Very large exports depend on provider availability, pagination, and run budget.
• Results may vary depending on Instagram availability and API response.
• The Actor only returns data that is available through the connected data provider.

If an account is private, restricted, or not found, the Actor stops gracefully for that profile instead of wasting retries.

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📝 Best Practices

For better performance:

• Use public Instagram profiles.
• Start with a smaller resultsLimit to validate the output.
• For large exports, split accounts into multiple runs.
• Use a reasonable max cost per run.
• Export results as CSV or JSON depending on your workflow.
• Avoid unnecessary repeated runs for the same account.

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💸 Pricing Notes

You only pay for delivered dataset items.

Free usage is intentionally kept accessible so users can test the Actor properly before scaling to larger paid runs.

Paid usage is designed for larger workloads, automation, and production workflows.

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🧪 Example Workflows

Competitor Audience Research

Input:

{
  "Account": ["nike", "adidas"],
  "resultsLimit": 1000,
  "dataToScrape": "Followers"
}

Use the output to compare audiences, identify potential leads, or discover relevant profiles.

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Influencer Research

Input:

{
  "Account": ["fitness_creator"],
  "resultsLimit": 500,
  "dataToScrape": "Followers"
}

Use the exported followers to analyze audience quality and discover similar creators.

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Following List Export

Input:

{
  "Account": ["example_account"],
  "resultsLimit": 300,
  "dataToScrape": "Following"
}

Use this to understand which accounts a profile follows.

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Your feedback helps improve the Actor and helps other users understand whether it fits their use case.

If something does not work as expected, please open an issue and I will review it as soon as possible.

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Happy scraping 🚀