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Instagram Posts & Profile Watchdog

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Real-time Instagram surveillance for new posts, bio updates, avatar rebrands, following delta, and privacy changes. Automated 24/7 competitor and creator intelligence with zero login, passwords, or session cookies required.

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Pay per usage

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SocialWatchdog

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⚡ Instagram Posts & Profile Watchdog

24/7 Account & Content Intelligence: Continuous surveillance for newly published posts, direct permalinks, visual covers, bio link diffs, avatar rebrands, following count deltas, and handle changes. Zero login credentials, passwords, or cookies required.

🏆 Enterprise Instagram Surveillance

Track high-value accounts, competitors, and influencers with sub-second accuracy without managing burner accounts or risking session bans.

🔒 Zero Maintenance: 100% credential-free. No account connections or session upkeep required.
📸 New Post Detection: Captures newly published posts with direct permalinks (/p/...), captions, and high-res visual covers.
✍️ Precise Bio Diffs: Highlights the exact copy and website links added or removed (Before ➔ After).
🏷️ Handle & Rebranding Audits: Detects when an account changes their public username using permanent user IDs.
👥 Following & Follower Diffs: Real-time delta tracking (e.g. Following: +3).
🚨 Account Integrity Alerts: Immediate alerts if an account switches to private, is deactivated, or restored.

📊 Structured Event Output

Event Type	Account	Event Summary	Direct Link	Details / Diff	Visual Preview
`NEW_POST`	`creator`	📸 Published 1 new post	View Post	Caption & permalink	[Cover Image]
`BIO_MODIFIED`	`creator`	✏️ Bio updated	View Profile	`Old: "Designer" ➔ New: "CEO"`	[Avatar Image]
`FOLLOWING_CHANGED`	`creator`	👥 Following: +3 (7 ➔ 10)	View Profile	Followed 3 new accounts	[Avatar Image]
`AVATAR_UPDATED`	`creator`	🖼️ Profile picture updated	View Profile	New profile picture live	[Avatar Image]
`HANDLE_CHANGED`	`creator`	🏷️ Username: @old ➔ @new	View Profile	Tracked via permanent ID	[Avatar Image]

🔌 API & Webhook Integration

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("socialwatchdog/instagram-profile-monitor").call(run_input={
    "username": "leomessi",
    "trackPosts": True,
    "trackBio": True
})

for alert in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"[{alert['eventType']}] {alert['eventSummary']}")

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('socialwatchdog/instagram-profile-monitor').call({
    username: 'leomessi'
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

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