| ๐ง Emails (`emails`) and best email (`email`) |
๐ Phone numbers (`phones`, `phone` in E.164) |
๐ฌ WhatsApp numbers (`whatsapp`) |
| ๐ The account's website (`website`, `websiteDomain`) |
๐ณ Link-in-bio service and page (`linkInBioService`) |
๐ Social profiles by network (`socials`) |
| ๐งพ Source of every contact (`contactDetails`) |
โ
Role / personal email and MX check |
๐ Postal address from the website (`websiteAddress`) |
| ๐ค Username, name, bio, profile URL |
๐ฅ Followers and following |
๐ท๏ธ Account type and category |
| ๐ Every bio link with its label (`bioLinks`) |
๐ Pages read (`pagesScanned`) |
๐งญ Related-to account (`relatedTo`) |
On a 75-account test run (4 food brands and the accounts Instagram suggests next to them), 41 accounts had at least one contact. Of those 41 records, 73% carried an email, 63% a phone number, 5% a WhatsApp number, 98% a website and 95% at least one other social profile.
### How to scrape Instagram emails with Instagram Email Scraper
1. [Create a free Apify account](https://console.apify.com/sign-up) - it comes with monthly free credit.
2. Open [Instagram Email Scraper](https://apify.com/topapi/instagram-contact-scraper) and click **Try for free**.
3. Paste usernames or profile URLs into **Instagram accounts**, one per line.
4. Pick **Deliver accounts with** (any contact, email only, phone only, email and phone, or every account) and click **Start**.
5. Open the **Storage** tab and **Export** as CSV, Excel or JSON - or let a schedule run it for you.
### โฌ๏ธ Instagram Email Scraper input
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| **๐ What to scrape** | | |
| `usernames` | List | **Required.** Usernames, @handles, profile URLs or numeric ids, e.g. `lukeslobster`, `@nutsdotcom`, `https://www.instagram.com/jenisicecreams/` |
| `startUrls` | File / URL list | Optional list of accounts from a text or CSV file, merged with the list above |
| `expandRelatedAccounts` | Boolean | Also find contacts for the accounts Instagram suggests next to each account. Default `false` |
| **โ๏ธ Refine results** | | |
| `requireContact` | Select | `any` (an email, phone or WhatsApp - default), `email`, `phone`, `emailAndPhone`, `none` (every account) |
| `accountType` | Select | Any, professional, business, creator or personal |
| `minFollowers` / `maxFollowers` | Integer | Follower range. `0` = no limit |
| `excludePrivate` | Boolean | Leave out private accounts. Default `false` |
| **โ Extra data** | | |
| `scanDepth` | Select | `website` (bio + link-in-bio + website, default), `linkInBio`, `profile` (bio only, fastest) |
| `maxPagesPerWebsite` | Integer | Pages read per website, homepage included. Default `4` |
| `includeThirdPartyContacts` | Boolean | Also read sites the account links to that are not its own; their contacts go to `thirdPartyEmails` / `thirdPartyPhones`. Default `false` |
| **๐ Monitoring** | | |
| `monitorMode` | Boolean | Remember every account read and skip it on the next run. Default `false` |
| `monitorStoreName` | String | Name of the memory, one per list. Default `instagram-contacts-monitor` |
| `recheckAfterDays` | Integer | Re-read known accounts after N days and deliver them again only if their contacts changed. Default `0` (never) |
| **๐ฆ Output** | | |
| `maxResults` | Integer | Cap on delivered records. `0` = no cap |
| `maxProfilesToCheck` | Integer | Cap on accounts read, including those with no contact. `0` = no cap |
| `compact` | Boolean | Core fields only, sized for AI agents and CRMs |
| `includeUnavailable` | Boolean | Add a status row for every account that could not be read |
| **โ๏ธ Advanced** | | |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Proxy | Apify datacenter proxy by default |
| `maxConcurrency` | Integer | Accounts processed at once. Default `5` |
#### Input JSON
```json
{
"usernames": ["lukeslobster", "nutsdotcom", "jenisicecreams"],
"requireContact": "any",
"scanDepth": "website",
"maxResults": 50
}
```
#### Paste usernames, profile URLs or ids in the same list
Mix bare usernames, @handles, profile URLs and numeric user ids; duplicates are read once. **Do:** `https://www.instagram.com/lukeslobster/` ยท **Don't:** `https://www.instagram.com/p/C1abc/` (a post link is skipped with a warning).
#### Pick what a record must contain before you start
`requireContact` decides which accounts become rows. Leave it on **any** for a lead list, choose **email** for an email campaign, or **none** when you want a row for every account (for example to see which ones publish nothing).
#### Use related-account discovery to build a list from a few seeds
Turn on **Also find related accounts** and paste 3-5 accounts of the kind you want: the run adds the accounts Instagram suggests next to them (measured: 22 for one bakery, 38 for one seafood restaurant, none for some creators) and reads their contacts too. Set **Max accounts to check** to bound the run.
### โฌ๏ธ Instagram Email Scraper output
Every account with a contact becomes one dataset item. Here are 8 real records from the 75-account test run (the JSON below is a real record of a later run):
```json
{
"username": "lukeslobster",
"displayName": "Lukeโs Lobster",
"email": "catering@lukeslobster.com",
"phone": "+12072925946",
"emails": ["catering@lukeslobster.com", "retail@lukeslobster.com"],
"phones": ["2072925946"],
"whatsapp": [],
"website": "https://shop.lukeslobster.com/collections/shop-lukes",
"websiteDomain": "lukeslobster.com",
"linkInBioService": "Later Link in Bio",
"socials": { "facebook": ["https://www.facebook.com/LukesLobster"], "youtube": ["https://www.youtube.com/lukeslobster"] },
"contactDetails": [
{ "type": "email", "value": "catering@lukeslobster.com", "sources": ["website"], "sourceUrls": ["https://lukeslobster.com/pages/contact-us"], "emailType": "role", "matchesWebsite": true, "mxValid": true }
],
"followersCount": 129000,
"accountType": "business",
"status": "ok"
}
```
#### Instagram contact fields
| Field | What it is | Fill on the 41-record test run |
|---|---|---|
| `email`, `emails` | Best email and all emails the account publishes | 73% |
| `phone`, `phones` | Best phone (E.164 when it has a country code or is North American) and all phones | 63% |
| `whatsapp` | WhatsApp numbers from wa.me links and "WhatsApp: +..." in the bio | 5% |
| `website`, `websiteDomain` | The account's own website that was read | 98% |
| `linkInBioService`, `linkInBioUrl`, `childLinks` | The link-in-bio page and the links on it | 32% |
| `socials` | Other profiles of the account: Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest ... | 95% |
| `contactDetails` | Every contact with `sources`, `sourceUrls`, `emailType`, `matchesWebsite`, `mxValid` | 100% |
| `websiteAddress` | Street, city, region, postcode from the website's schema.org data or address block | 6 of 12 restaurants (local test) |
| `username`, `displayName`, `biography`, `profileUrl`, `followersCount`, `accountType` | The Instagram profile | 100% |
| `category` | The category Instagram shows under the name | 46% |
| `pagesScanned` | Every page read for the record | 98% |
### How can I use Instagram contact data?
- ๐ฏ **Agencies and sales teams** - turn a list of local businesses on Instagram into an outreach list with emails and phone numbers.
- ๐ค **Influencer marketers and PR** - find booking and press addresses for a creator shortlist.
- ๐ **CRM enrichment** - add emails, phones and websites to Instagram handles you already have.
- ๐ **Lead discovery** - start from 3 accounts you like and collect the contacts of the accounts Instagram suggests next to them.
- ๐ค **AI and automation** - feed `compact` rows to an agent or a workflow that drafts the first message.
### How much does it cost to scrape Instagram emails?
Instagram Email Scraper is pay-per-result: **$6.10 per 1,000 contact records**, no start fee. A record is one account written to the dataset. With the default **any contact** setting, accounts with no email, phone or WhatsApp are left out of the dataset and are not charged (choose **every account** to get them too).
| Records | Cost |
|---:|---:|
| 10 | $0.061 |
| 100 | $0.61 |
| 1,000 | $6.10 |
| 10,000 | $61.00 |
Apify platform usage is included in the price. The actor runs on 1,024 MB with no browser: 75 accounts took 3 minutes 27 seconds at the default settings; the 3-account example input takes about 9 seconds.
### Integrations, API, scheduling & MCP
- **Schedules:** run a growing list daily or weekly from the **Schedules** tab; with `monitorMode` each run returns only accounts it has not delivered before.
- **Webhooks:** call a URL when a run finishes and push the records to your CRM, Slack or a sheet.
- **No-code:** Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, HubSpot and Airtable through [Apify integrations](https://docs.apify.com/integrations).
- **API:** start runs and read datasets from Node.js or Python with `apify-client`; code is on the [API tab](https://apify.com/topapi/instagram-contact-scraper/api/python).
- **MCP / AI agents:** connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client through the [MCP tab](https://apify.com/topapi/instagram-contact-scraper/api/mcp); `compact` keeps rows small.
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