Check Instagram Username Availability
Check a proposed brand handle on Instagram and X and get a per-site status, HTTP code, detection method, and profile URL when found. Small businesses and brand teams can enable availability rows with includeAvailable and choose perSite output to review each result. Anonymous throttling can affect results.
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The Multi-Site Username Lookup & Profile Link Finder Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like usernames, sites, and more, to match your specific use case.
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The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Check Instagram Username Availability" task via API.
The Instagram availability task checks mynewbrand2026 on Instagram and X (Twitter). Its sample results mark the handle available on both sites, though anonymous throttling can affect results.
Each per-site row in the Instagram availability task can show the site, status, HTTP code, verification flag and profile URL when found. Detection method is recorded in the verification data.
The Instagram availability task is set to check Instagram and X (Twitter) for mynewbrand2026, with availability rows included.
The Instagram availability task accepts up to 100 usernames per run. This run is set to check one handle, mynewbrand2026.
Results from the Instagram availability task land in a dataset that can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS or an HTML table.