Instagram Followers & Following Scraper — Bulk

Build resumable Instagram follower or following datasets, with optional deep profile enrichment.

ToolzerHub maintains Instagram Followers & Following Scraper for audience operations where completeness, restartability, and a documented enrichment choice matter. One configuration supports either list direction across one or more seed profiles.

Define the audience operation

Select followers or following, cap the initial run, and retain the cursor when a large account needs another pass. Deep enrichment should be enabled when the destination workflow genuinely needs profile metadata beyond list identity.

Followers

Set List Direction to followers to pull who follows each seed account.

Field	Type	Required	Description
profiles	array	Yes	Instagram accounts to pull the list from
listType	string	Yes	Which connection list to collect
limit	integer	No	Stop after this many rows per account (0 = pull the whole list)

Following

Set List Direction to following to pull who each seed account follows.

Field	Type	Required	Description
profiles	array	Yes	Instagram accounts to pull the list from
listType	string	Yes	Which connection list to collect
limit	integer	No	Stop after this many rows per account (0 = pull the whole list)

Resume a big pull

Drop a cursor from a prior run's log into Continue From to pick up where it left off.

Field	Type	Required	Description
profiles	array	Yes	Instagram accounts to pull the list from
listType	string	Yes	Which connection list to collect
continueFrom	string	No	Paste the token from an earlier run's log (look for '🔖 CONTINUE TOKEN') to resume where it stopped.

Deep enrichment

Turn on Deep Profile Fetch to get a full profile object per row instead of the lightweight summary.

Field	Type	Required	Description
deepEnrich	boolean	No	Swap each row for the account's full public profile (slower, adds a billable event per row)
limit	integer	No	Stop after this many rows per account (0 = pull the whole list)

Example controlled pull

{
  "profiles": [
    "nasa"
  ],
  "listType": "followers",
  "limit": 20
}

Dataset rows with operational context

Account identity

Field	Type	Description
username	string	Instagram username of the account.
full_name	string	Display name shown on the profile.
id	string	Instagram numeric user ID.
is_verified	boolean	Whether the account is verified (blue badge).
is_private	boolean	Whether the account is private.
profile_pic_url	string	Profile picture URL.

Run context

Field	Type	Description
source_username	string	The account whose followers/followings this record belongs to.

Enrichment

Field	Type	Description
enriched	boolean	Whether this record was replaced with a full enriched profile.

Result preview

{
  "username": "nasaartemis",
  "full_name": "NASA Artemis",
  "id": "1104426670",
  "is_private": false,
  "is_verified": true,
  "profile_pic_url": "https://instagram.fadd2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/example.jpg",
  "source_username": "nasa",
  "enriched": false
}

Cost and scaling policy

Billing follows Apify's pay-per-result model. You're only charged for rows that land in the dataset, per the pricing shown on this Actor's Pricing tab. Turning on profile enrichment adds its own billable event per record.

Apify's free credits may cover small test pulls, plus whatever free monthly credits your Apify plan includes.

Test with a small result cap first, then scale up once you know the list size you're dealing with.

ToolzerHub recommends approving a small run first, checking seed and list-direction fields, then saving the cursor and enrichment policy with the workflow configuration.

Responsible audience handling

Both tools only touch public Instagram data — no login walls, no private accounts, no bypassing access controls. Don't use them to harvest private information or to contact people in ways that break privacy law, Instagram's terms, or your own compliance rules. When in doubt, get a lawyer's opinion.

Run this Actor from code

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("toolzerhub/instagram-profile-follower-followee-scraper").call(run_input={
    "profiles": [
        "nasa"
    ],
    "listType": "followers",
    "limit": 20
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: "YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN" });
const run = await client.actor("toolzerhub/instagram-profile-follower-followee-scraper").call({
  "profiles": [
    "nasa"
  ],
  "listType": "followers",
  "limit": 20
});

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

Complementary ToolzerHub Actors

• Instagram Followers Scraper — No Login — Export the complete follower list of one or more public Instagram accounts without providing an Instagram login. Resume large accounts with a cursor and optionally enrich every follower profile.
• LinkedIn People Search Scraper — No Cookies — Search LinkedIn people without providing LinkedIn cookies. Find profiles by name, title, company, school, location, industry, and other filters, then paginate structured results.
• TikTok Shop Products Scraper — Search TikTok Shop by keyword with automatic pagination, region support, and an optional detail-enrichment checkbox that adds product, shop, review, voucher, category, and shop-performance data to every saved result.

ToolzerHub support

Spotted a bug, a missing field, or want a feature? Open an issue on the Actor page and we'll take a look.

Contact: contact@toolzerhub.com