Social Media Username Scraper

❓ What does it do?

Extracts social media handles and profile usernames linked from websites you provide. It does not log into social networks or scrape private profiles — it finds public links / handles on the target site (and optionally Contact / related pages).

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❓ What social network usernames can be scraped?

Enable the networks you care about. The actor returns handles when the website exposes them — absence of a network in the output usually means no link was found, not a failed login to that platform.

Popular networks (defaults on): Instagram, Facebook, Twitter / X, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn

Additional optional networks (toggles): including:

• Instagram
• Facebook
• Twitter / X
• YouTube
• TikTok
• LinkedIn
• Reddit
• Meetup
• Pinterest
• Behance
• Dribbble
• Snapchat
• WhatsApp
• Telegram
• Discord
• Twitch
• Vimeo
• Imdb
• Letterboxd
• Tumblr
• 500px
• Flickr
• Giphy
• Medium
• Goodreads
• GitHub
• Spotify
• SoundCloud
• VoltFM
• MixCloud
• Trip Advisor
• Yelp
• Mapstr
• Foursquare
• Product Hunt
• Angelco
• Tree Nation

This social handle scraper is designed to work well with the Advanced Google Maps Scraper as it can get websites from the output of that scraper, but it will also work with any other Actor that outputs a website or URL column in its dataset.

Output format

• 👋 Name
  • Taken from the title of the page
• 🪪 ID
  • This will be the ID passed in, or a hash of the URL if no ID was supplied
• 📇 Social Handles
  • Detected username/handle fields for enabled networks found on the page (empty/absent when not linked)
  • NOTE:
    • the output tab will only show the most popular networks
    • the full list is in the JSON / CSV or API output

🏭 Example Output

Here's an example of social network usernames for A24 Films, from their website:

[
  {
    "title": "A24",
    "instagram": "a24",
    "facebook": "a24",
    "twitter": "a24",
    "youtube": "a24films"
  }
]

📝 Input format

• Targets: list of website URLs (optional custom id per URL)

  "targets": [
    {
      "id": "YourCustomID",
      "url": "https://a24films.com"
    }
  ]
  

• Dataset ID: read url / website from an existing dataset (e.g. place websites from the Google Maps details scraper); reuse id / placeId when present

• Additional pages: optionally follow Contact Us–style pages

• Network toggles: choose which networks to look for

🏎️ Speed

Speed is dependent on the memory available to your Actor and the settings you're using.

To help you calculate, each page you scrape from will produce a summary like the example below (which was run on an Actor with 4,096MB memory):

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Handles captured for https://a24films.com (ID: h3HJhU5) in 0.21 seconds:

✅ instagram
✅ facebook
✅ twitter
✅ youtube
✅ tumblr
✅ giphy

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💳 Pricing (pay-per-event)

Pricing: Pay-per-event. Bronze $5 / Silver $4.50 / Gold $4.00 per 1,000 events at 1 GB RAM. Actor-start billing also applies (events scale with memory GB). One Bronze unit ≈ one billed website/handle-result row.

Free Apify users can run all documented features — nothing core is paid-only gated. Handles are extracted from websites when linked; volume is priced via events, not feature locks.

🙋‍♀️ FAQs

Q: Can the data be exported in different formats?
A: Yes, the scraped social usernames can be downloaded in formats such as JSON or CSV for analysis.

Q: Is it legal to scrape social media handles?
A: You should consult the Terms of Service for the sites in your targets list to determine if your use case is permitted.