Instagram Followers & Following Scraper — Bulk

Export the followers or the following list of any public Instagram account. No login, no cookie, no session token — nothing of yours is on the line.

One field switches direction, several accounts run in a single job, and big accounts can be resumed from where the last run stopped.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
profiles	array	—	Required. Accounts to pull from.
listType	enum	followers	Required. followers or followings.
limit	integer	100	Rows per account. 0 pulls the whole list.
addonProfile	boolean	false	Swaps each row for that account's full public profile.
continueFrom	string	—	Resume token from an earlier run.

{
  "profiles": ["cristiano"],
  "listType": "followers",
  "limit": 500,
  "addonProfile": false
}

limit is per account, not per run. Three profiles at 500 returns up to 1,500 rows.

Output

Field	What it holds
username	The account's username
full_name	Display name
id	Instagram user ID
is_private	Whether it's private
is_verified	Whether it's verified
profile_pic_url	Profile image
source_username	Which of your input accounts this row came from
enriched	Whether the full profile was fetched

{
  "username": "leomessi",
  "full_name": "Leo Messi",
  "is_verified": true,
  "is_private": false,
  "source_username": "cristiano",
  "enriched": false
}

source_username is what keeps a multi-account job usable — everything lands in one dataset otherwise.

Resuming a big account

Accounts with millions of followers don't finish in one run. Watch the log for:

🔖 CONTINUE TOKEN (@cristiano): QVFEc0h...

Paste that into continueFrom next time and collection picks up from there instead of starting over.

One caveat: the token applies to the first account in profiles only. It resumes one stream, so run large accounts one at a time if you plan to resume them.

Questions

Do I need an Instagram login or cookie? No. Nothing logs in and no session token is passed. Scrapers that ask for your li_at-equivalent session cookie put your own account at risk of restriction; this doesn't touch one.

Can I get a private account's followers? No. Only public accounts expose these lists. A private account returns nothing, whichever direction you ask for.

Why did a huge account return fewer followers than it has? Instagram serves these lists in bounded pages and stops well short of a full roster on very large accounts. Someone with 600 million followers will not return 600 million rows. You get a large sample in Instagram's own ordering — use continueFrom across several runs to go deeper, but there's still a ceiling.

Followers or following — which is more useful? Following, usually, and it's far smaller. Who an account chooses to follow is deliberate; who follows it mostly isn't. For competitor research the following list is the higher-signal half.

What does addonProfile cost? One extra request and one billable event per row. On a 1,000-follower export that's 1,000 extra requests, which will dominate the bill. Pull the list first, then enrich only the subset you care about.

What's the difference between this and the other two follower Actors? This one does both directions. Instagram Followers Scraper — No Login and Instagram Profile Followers Scraper collect followers only, on the same engine. If you want the following list, this is the one.

Other Instagram Actors

Actor	Use when
Instagram User Search	You don't have account names yet
Instagram Profile Content	You want their posts, reels, or stories
Instagram Hashtag & Keyword Search	You're searching by subject, not account
Instagram Media Engagement	You want comments and likers on a post

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