Instagram Profile Scraper | Profiles, Bios, Links & Latest Posts

Scrape any public Instagram profile — followers, bio, links, verification, business info and the latest 12 posts — with no login and no browser. Output is a drop-in match for the Apify Instagram Profile Scraper dataset format, powered by the ScrapeCreators API.

⭐ 1 credit per profile | 🔁 Apify-compatible output | 📦 Bulk usernames

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What Data Can You Extract?

Profile

Field	Description
id, fbid, username, fullName, url	Identity
biography	Bio text
externalUrl, externalUrlShimmed	Website link (raw and Instagram-redirect)
externalUrls	All bio links (title, url, lynx_url, ...)
followersCount, followsCount, postsCount	Counts
verified, private, isBusinessAccount	Account flags
businessCategoryName, joinedRecently	Business / account metadata
profilePicUrl, profilePicUrlHD	Avatars
highlightReelCount, igtvVideoCount	Highlights / IGTV counts
relatedProfiles, latestIgtvVideos	Suggested profiles and IGTV videos (when returned)
latestPosts	Latest 12 posts (see below)

Each post in latestPosts

id, type (Video / Image / Sidecar), shortCode, url, caption, hashtags, mentions, commentsCount, likesCount, videoViewCount, timestamp, displayUrl, dimensionsHeight, dimensionsWidth, videoUrl, images (carousel image URLs), childPosts (carousel items), taggedUsers, productType, isPinned, isCommentsDisabled, ownerUsername, ownerId, alt.

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
usernames	Array	Instagram usernames only, e.g. humansofny (no URLs, no @). Required

{
  "usernames": ["humansofny", "natgeo"]
}

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Output Example (truncated)

{
  "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/humansofny",
  "id": "242598499",
  "username": "humansofny",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/humansofny",
  "fullName": "Humans of New York",
  "externalUrl": "https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374395476/littlehumans/",
  "followersCount": 12644345,
  "followsCount": 756,
  "private": false,
  "verified": true,
  "postsCount": 5876,
  "latestPosts": [
    {
      "id": "3741054891297971261",
      "type": "Video",
      "shortCode": "DPq5ZpJDZw9",
      "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DPq5ZpJDZw9/",
      "commentsCount": 977,
      "likesCount": 107859,
      "videoViewCount": 1035354,
      "timestamp": "2025-10-11T13:27:07.000Z",
      "productType": "clips",
      "isPinned": true
    }
  ],
  "fbid": "17841401154973790"
}

Failed profiles are pushed as { "username", "error", "status": "failed" } (plus inputUrl when the username was valid).

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Setup

1. npm install
2. Copy .env.example to .env and set SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY (on Apify, add it as an environment variable in the actor settings).
3. Local run: put input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json, then npm start.

Verifying against Apify output

$node scripts/compare.mjs <scrapecreators-response.json> <apify-dataset.json>

Diffs every field (keys, key order, values) and ignores signed CDN URLs, which differ on every request.

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Differences vs. the Apify actor

The structure, field names, and key order match. A few values can differ because the two services read Instagram differently:

• Live counts (followers, likes, views, comments) drift between runs.
• relatedProfiles: ScrapeCreators often returns this empty.
• highlightReelCount / igtvVideoCount: Instagram reports these differently to each source.
• isPinned: ScrapeCreators has no pinned flag, so it's inferred. Instagram lists pinned posts (up to 3) first, so a leading post that is older than a later post is treated as pinned.
• Carousel child taggedUsers: ScrapeCreators doesn't return per-item tags. Tags on the parent post are included.
• Some Reels dimensions: Apify sometimes reports a 750px rendition that ScrapeCreators doesn't list. We report the closest one available (720px).

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Need Help?

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