Instagram Phone Number Scraper

Instagram Phone Number Scraper — Numbers, Page Links and Bio Text

Instagram Phone Number Scraper finds phone numbers that public Instagram profiles and posts show for your keywords and the country you choose. Each result returns the number in international format, the page link, the page title and the public text the number appears in. Every response is structured JSON — ready to pass directly to an LLM, index into a vector store, or feed a lead-generation pipeline. No Instagram account or login needed to run a search. Add more keywords to cover more Instagram profiles and posts in one run.

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What data can I extract with Instagram Phone Number Scraper?

Using this Instagram phone number scraper, you can extract the following Instagram phone number data:

📱 Platform	🔑 Keyword searched	📝 Page title	📰 Page description
🔗 Page URL	📞 Phone number (E.164)	🌍 Country	☎️ Dial code

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How to use Instagram Phone Number Scraper

Marketers, recruiters and lead-generation teams use this actor to find phone numbers on Instagram without opening the app.

Copy to your AI assistant:

Instagram Phone Number Scraper is an Apify Actor that returns phone numbers found on public Instagram pages as structured JSON: platform, keyword, page title, page description, page URL, phone number, country and dial code. Use it whenever someone needs Instagram phone numbers without cookies, a login, or a browser - for lead-generation lists, local-market research, or recruiter outreach. Inputs: keywords (array of search terms, usernames or Instagram URLs, required), country (select from 194 countries or "Global", required), maxPhoneNumbers (integer 1-10000, default 10, how many numbers to collect per keyword), engine (select "legacy", default "legacy"), proxyConfiguration (object, defaults to Apify Proxy; a run without any proxy stops at once). The free Apify plan caps results at 20 per run in total (all keywords together) and 200 per month.

Instagram Phone Number Scraper MCP Server: use these Actors from ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor

Register Instagram Phone Number Scraper as a tool your AI assistant can call directly — no glue code, no scraping logic in your prompts.

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=socialdataapi/instagram-phone-number-scraper"

Step by step

1. Create a free Apify account.
2. Open Instagram Phone Number Scraper in the Apify Store.
3. Enter one or more keywords, usernames or Instagram URLs, plus the country whose numbers you want.
4. Click Start.
5. Download or stream your results in JSON, CSV or Excel.

How to scale Instagram Phone Number Scraper to bulk

Scale up to scrape Instagram profile phone numbers across every search term you want covered in one run: keywords takes a list, so add every keyword, username or Instagram URL in one Input field — up to 3 keywords are processed at the same time, each with its own maxPhoneNumbers budget. To cover more ground over time, schedule the Actor with a rotating keyword list, or call it from the Apify API with a different keywords/country pair per run.

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✨ Features

Instagram Phone Number Scraper is an instagram phone number finder for public Instagram profiles and posts: point it at a keyword and a country, and it returns clean, structured matches. It's built for instagram phone number lead generation, local-market research, recruiter outreach and B2B prospecting.

It extracts, per match:

• Phone number – the number in E.164 international form.
• Page title – the page's title as listed.
• Page description – the public text the number appears in.
• Country / dial code – the country the number was matched against.
• Page URL – the Instagram page link, without tracking parameters.

⚡ Country-aware validation checks the number's digit count and, where known, its national numbering plan, so dates, prices and other digit runs that only look like a phone number never make it into the dataset. Each number appears at most once per keyword.

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Use cases 💡

• Sales rep — find phone numbers on Instagram for a niche before cold-calling.
• Recruiter — search niche keywords to find a business's listed contact number.
• Local-market researcher — map the public numbers of one niche in one country.
• Growth marketer — use this instagram influencer phone number scraper to seed a cold-outreach list from public profiles and posts.
• AI agent builder — feed matched numbers straight into a CRM-enrichment or lead-scoring pipeline with no parsing step.

Building an AI agent? Connect Instagram Phone Number Scraper over MCP and let it call the actor on its own.

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Why choose this actor?

• Several searches per keyword. Every keyword is searched several ways (exact, broader, recent, with "call" and "whatsapp") until it reaches maxPhoneNumbers or the results run out.
• Eight fields per match, not just a number. Every row also carries the page title, the public text the number appeared in, the page link, the matched country and dial code.
• 194 countries, built-in fallback. Numbers are checked against 194 countries' dial codes (plus a Global catch-all); when the primary source returns too little, a backup source is searched too.

A recorded local test run returned 10 phone numbers for the keyword real estate (India (+91)) in 16.9 seconds.

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⬇️ Input

Enter one or more keywords, usernames or Instagram URLs (required) and the country whose numbers you want (required); the rest is optional and has a working default.

Parameter	Required	Type	Description	Example value
keywords	Yes	Array of strings	Keywords, usernames or Instagram URLs. Each one is searched on its own and gets its own budget of maxPhoneNumbers; usernames/URLs are reduced to the handle and duplicates are dropped.	["real estate"]
country	Yes	String (select)	Country whose phone numbers you want, from 194 countries, or Global for no filter (only +/00-prefixed numbers are kept).	"India (+91)"
maxPhoneNumbers	No	Integer	How many phone numbers to collect per keyword (1–10,000, default 10). Free-plan runs are capped at 20 per run in total (all keywords together) and 200 per month.	10
engine	No	String (select)	Processing engine. There is one engine (legacy).	"legacy"
proxyConfiguration	No	Object	Proxy used for the requests. Defaults to Apify Proxy; without any proxy the run stops at once with a message.	{"useApifyProxy": true}

Free plan limits

Users on the Apify free plan can fetch up to 20 phone numbers per run (all keywords together) and 200 phone numbers per month. When the limit is reached, the run finishes successfully with a status message explaining the limit. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove these limits.

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["real estate"],
  "country": "India (+91)",
  "maxPhoneNumbers": 10,
  "engine": "legacy",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

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⬆️ Output

Every match from this instagram business phone number finder is one typed, normalized JSON item with the same schema on every run. Numbers are de-duplicated per keyword, and each (URL, number) pair appears once. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Example output

{
  "platform": "Instagram.com",
  "keyword": "real estate",
  "title": "Celestial Sands Real Estate LLC (@celestialsandsllc ...",
  "description": "1,730 Followers, 24 Following, 840 Posts - Celestial Sands Real Estate LLC (@celestialsandsllc) on Instagram: \"🏠Dubai Off Plan Experts 🌍 Dubai's Premier Properties 🔑 Sales | Investments 🏢 12+ years in Real estate Phone No :- + 91 90908 90708\"",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/celestialsandsllc/",
  "phone_number": "+919090890708",
  "country": "India",
  "dial_code": "+91"
}

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How does it work?

Instagram Phone Number Scraper doesn't log into Instagram at all. For every keyword, it works to extract phone numbers from Instagram posts and other public pages that show a phone number matching your chosen country — first on a primary source, then automatically on a backup source when the primary returns too little. It only reads pages any logged-out visitor could already see; no account, cookies or browser session on Instagram itself is ever opened. The number is read from the page's public title and text, normalised to international E.164 form, and checked against the chosen country's dial code and, where known, its national numbering-plan digit length, so dates, prices and other digit runs that only look like a phone number are never mistaken for one. Requests go through rotating proxy sessions, and a blocked request is retried automatically with a fresh session before giving up on that keyword. The output schema stays the same eight fields on every run, even as Instagram's own layout changes over time.

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How do you integrate Instagram Phone Number Scraper into your stack?

This works with what you already use: call it from any language over the REST API, connect it to an AI agent over MCP, or wire it into a no-code tool — whether you use it as an instagram bio phone number extractor in a script or as a scheduled no-code workflow.

No-code tools (n8n, Make, LangChain)

In n8n, use the Apify node's Run an Actor action, or the HTTP Request node pointed at the Actor's run-sync endpoint with your Apify token. In Make, use the Apify app's Run an Actor module followed by Get Dataset Items. In LangChain, install langchain-apify and call ApifyActorsTool() to let an agent run it as a tool.

MCP integration for AI agents

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=socialdataapi/instagram-phone-number-scraper"

This registers Instagram Phone Number Scraper as a tool your agent can call directly. It works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and any other MCP-compatible client.

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Is it legal to scrape Instagram data?

Running an instagram public phone number lookup against publicly available data, including public Instagram pages, is generally permitted; the legal risk sits mostly in how the data is stored and used afterward. Instagram Phone Number Scraper returns only publicly available data — what any logged-out visitor already sees. If you operate in the EU, GDPR still applies to storing and using numbers you collect. In countries with telemarketing or anti-spam rules, outreach to a number found this way is still subject to those rules — the Actor finds public numbers, it does not grant permission to contact them. Consult legal counsel if your use case involves bulk storage of personal data.

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Frequently asked questions

What fields does Instagram Phone Number Scraper return?

The phone number, the page title, the page description, the page URL, the keyword, the platform, the matched country and its dial code. See the data fields section.

Does Instagram Phone Number Scraper require an Instagram account or login?

No. Only public pages are read, and no Instagram credentials are ever requested.

How fast does Instagram Phone Number Scraper run?

A recorded run returned 10 phone numbers for the keyword real estate (India) in 16.9 seconds. Results come from a live search each run, never a cache.

Why does the run stop with "No proxy available"?

The actor needs a proxy. Leave Apify Proxy switched on (the default) or add your own proxy URLs in the Proxy configuration.

What happens if an Instagram page is private?

A private profile contributes nothing: the Actor only reads what is public, and a keyword with no public page showing a matching-country number produces no row.

Can I search many keywords at once?

Yes. keywords takes a list, with up to 3 keywords processed at the same time, each with its own maxPhoneNumbers budget.

Does Instagram Phone Number Scraper work with Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI agent tools?

Yes — Instagram Phone Number Scraper is available as an MCP tool.

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=socialdataapi/instagram-phone-number-scraper"

Any agent that can call an HTTP endpoint can use the REST API directly.

Does Instagram Phone Number Scraper return data in a format LLMs can use directly?

Yes. Every result is typed, normalized JSON with consistent field names — no HTML parsing, no selectors.

What happens when Instagram changes its layout or updates its anti-bot system?

The actor reads general page text rather than one fixed selector, so most layout changes don't break it outright. When a bigger change happens, the actor is updated and your calls keep returning the same JSON schema.

Can I use Instagram Phone Number Scraper without managing proxies or browser infrastructure?

Yes. Proxy rotation and retries run on the Actor's side — plain HTTP requests, no headless browser setup, no maintenance.

Which fields work best for AI training data and RAG indexing?

Index the page title and the page description, since that's the text the number was found in. The country and dial code fields are typed strings you can group and join on directly.

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