📸 Instagram Profile Scraper

The Instagram Profile Scraper is an Apify actor designed to extract structured data from Instagram profiles. It helps researchers, analysts, and marketers gather profile-level information such as follower counts, engagement rates, biography text, and recent posts — all in JSON format.

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🚀 Features

• Scrape detailed profile metadata (username, full name, category, verification status, etc.)
• Collect follower and engagement statistics
• Extract external links and biography text
• Retrieve recent posts with captions, images, videos, likes, comments, and timestamps
• Identify related accounts and connections
• Supports multiple usernames at once

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📥 Input

The scraper accepts a list of Instagram usernames via an input schema.

Example input:

{
  "usernames": [
    "humansofny",
    "npr",
    "newyorkermag"
  ]
}

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📤 Output

The actor returns a JSON array containing structured profile data.

Example output (simplified):

[
  {
    "account": "humansofny",
    "id": "242598499",
    "fbid": "17841401154973790",
    "full_name": "Humans of New York",
    "profile_name": "Humans of New York",
    "profile_url": "https://instagram.com/humansofny",
    "profile_image_link": "https://instagram.com/path/to/image.jpg",
    "biography": "New York City, one story at a time...",
    "category_name": "Arts & Humanities Website",
    "followers": 12855645,
    "following": 564,
    "posts_count": 5804,
    "avg_engagement": 0.0091,
    "is_verified": true,
    "is_private": false,
    "is_business_account": false,
    "is_professional_account": true,
    "external_url": ["http://bit.ly/DearNewYorkBook"],
    "highlights_count": 1,
    "related_accounts": [
      {
        "id": "1258618",
        "profile_name": "NPR",
        "user_name": "npr",
        "is_verified": true,
        "is_private": false,
        "profile_pic_url": "https://..."
      }
    ],
    "posts": [
      {
        "id": "3664280402756455474",
        "caption": "...",
        "datetime": "2025-06-27T14:58:05.000Z",
        "likes": 29628,
        "comments": 392,
        "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DLaI5yzuUwy",
        "image_url": "https://...",
        "video_url": null,
        "content_type": "GraphSidecar",
        "is_pinned": true
      }
    ]
  }
]

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⚙️ Usage

1. Go to the Apify Console.
2. Create a new task for this actor.
3. Provide an input JSON with the usernames you want to scrape.
4. Run the actor and download the results in JSON, CSV, or Excel.

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📊 Example Use Cases

• Market Research: Analyze competitors’ follower counts and engagement rates.
• Influencer Discovery: Identify potential influencers by category, audience, and activity.
• Content Analysis: Collect recent posts and captions for trend analysis.
• Social Monitoring: Track account growth over time.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor is intended for educational and research purposes only. Please ensure you comply with Instagram’s Terms of Service and local regulations when using this tool.