Instagram Profile Scraper

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Scrape Instagram profile data and profile statistics from public Instagram pages with an Apify Actor.

This actor focuses on profiles (not posts) and returns normalized profile fields (identity, stats, and account flags), plus additional raw Instagram profile metadata when available, along with optional previews like latest_posts, latest_igtv_videos, and discovery via related_profiles.

What this actor can do

• Scrape Instagram profile stats: followers, following, number of posts
• Get key profile attributes: verified/private/business flags, profile pictures, bio, external links (if available)
• Keep additional raw profile metadata from Instagram, including viewer/account capability flags and business/category fields when available
• Optionally scrape a linked Facebook profile into fb_profile when scrapeFacebookProfile is enabled
• Return lightweight latest posts metadata (caption, engagement, publishing/status flags, and media fields when available) for quick previews
• Return lightweight latest IGTV videos metadata (same simplified shape as latest_posts, plus video_duration when available)
• Return a list of related profiles (useful for discovery)
• Accept both usernames and profile URLs

Want to get other details from Instagram?

This actor is optimized for profiles (not full post feeds). If you want to scrape other Instagram data, use a dedicated scraper for that specific data type.

Related actors from the instagram-scraper:

What data can I scrape from Instagram profiles?

Using this Instagram Profile API, you can extract both normalized fields and additional Instagram profile metadata (when available on the public profile):

Notes:

• Field availability depends on what Instagram returns for a given profile (especially for private accounts).
• Some fields are normalized by the actor (followers, following, post_count), while others are passed through from Instagram's profile payload.
• Raw Instagram metadata can change over time, so downstream consumers should treat optional fields as non-guaranteed.
• contact_email is extracted from biography or full_name when an email address is present on a found profile, and is null otherwise.
• fb_profile is null when the toggle is disabled or no Facebook profile URL is found. If a Facebook lookup fails after retries, the actor returns fb_profile.status = "error" or fb_profile.status = "not_found" instead of throwing. Successful fb_profile payloads include bio instead of the older intro name.
• To keep output small and fast, arrays like latest_posts, latest_igtv_videos, and related_profiles are truncated.

Typical use cases

• Influencer discovery and enrichment (profile stats, verification, business account)
• Competitor monitoring (track follower growth over time)
• Lead enrichment for sales/marketing (public business profiles)
• Content research (quick look at latest post captions/engagement)

Input

Configure these fields in the Actor’s Input tab in the Apify Console:

instagramUsernames (required)

A list of Instagram usernames or profile URLs you want to scrape.

Examples:

• google
• https://www.instagram.com/google/

scrapeFacebookProfile (optional)

When enabled, the actor looks for one Facebook profile URL in this order: external_url, bio_links, fb_profile_biolink, biography, then full_name.

The nested fb_profile payload includes url, status, message, bio, profile_name, page_id, followers, following, is_business_page_active, category_name, and profile_type when available.

Quick start (Apify Console)

1. Add one or more values to instagramUsernames (either usernames like nypost or URLs like https://www.instagram.com/google/).
2. Adjust retries only if you hit temporary errors.
3. Click Run → open the Dataset tab to view/export results (JSON, CSV, Excel, etc.).

Invalid usernames or malformed profile URLs are still emitted to the dataset with ig_status: "invalid_input", instagramUsername, and a reminder message ("Invalid Instagram username or profile URL"), and they omit crawled_at because they are rejected before scraping continues.

This makes the actor usable as an Instagram profile scraping API, because datasets can be consumed programmatically via Apify’s API.

Example input

{
"instagramUsernames":["kevinhart4real"],
"scrapeFacebookProfile":true
}

Example output

Example dataset item when a profile is found. This sample is abridged only for long URLs and array length, but includes the top-level field set from a real dataset item. Arrays are intentionally truncated to keep outputs small and fast (defaults: latest_posts ≤ 12, latest_igtv_videos ≤ 12, related_profiles ≤ 20).

{
"id":"1067259270",
"fbid":"17841401778116675",
"eimu_id":"101735994563732",
"username":"google",
"full_name":"Google",
"profile_pic_url":"https://.../610021954_..._n.jpg",
"profile_pic_url_hd":"https://.../610021954_..._hd.jpg",
"biography":"Here to help\npress@google.com",
"contact_email":"press@google.com",
"bio_links":[
{
"title":"",
"lynx_url":"https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Flinkin.bio%2Fgoogle...",
"url":"https://linkin.bio/google",
"link_type":"external"
}
],
"fb_profile_biolink":null,
"external_url":"https://linkin.bio/google",
"external_url_linkshimmed":"https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Flinkin.bio%2Fgoogle...",
"fb_profile":{
"url":"https://www.facebook.com/noeychotikaofficialclub/",
"status":"ok",
"message":null,
"bio":"เพจหลักเพจเดียวของเนยเองค่ะ\n...",
"profile_name":"เนย โชติกา",
"page_id":"100044181381888",
"followers":7800000,
"following":19,
"profile_type":"Page"
},
"category_name":"Internet company",
"category_enum":"INTERNET_COMPANY",
"business_category_name":"None",
"overall_category_name":null,
"business_contact_method":"UNKNOWN",
"business_email":null,
"business_phone_number":null,
"business_address_json":null,
"following":40,
"followers":15826557,
"post_count":3183,
"igtv_video_count":107,
"highlight_reel_count":0,
"pinned_channels_list_count":0,
"is_verified":true,
"is_verified_by_mv4b":false,
"is_private":false,
"is_business_account":true,
"is_professional_account":true,
"has_clips":true,
"has_guides":false,
"has_channel":false,
"has_ar_effects":false,
"has_onboarded_to_text_post_app":true,
"is_embeds_disabled":false,
"is_joined_recently":false,
"hide_like_and_view_counts":false,
"country_block":false,
"followed_by_viewer":false,
"follows_viewer":false,
"requested_by_viewer":false,
"has_requested_viewer":false,
"blocked_by_viewer":false,
"has_blocked_viewer":false,
"restricted_by_viewer":null,
"is_supervision_enabled":false,
"is_guardian_of_viewer":false,
"is_supervised_by_viewer":false,
"is_supervised_user":false,
"is_regulated_c18":false,
"should_show_category":true,
"should_show_public_contacts":false,
"show_account_transparency_details":true,
"show_text_post_app_badge":true,
"transparency_label":null,
"transparency_product":null,
"ai_agent_owner_username":null,
"ai_agent_type":null,
"latest_posts":[
{
"id":"3880173376925319525",
"shortcode":"DXZJSDWj8Fl",
"url":"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXZJSDWj8Fl/",
"taken_at_timestamp":1776772804,
"taken_at":"2026-04-21T12:00:04Z",
"is_video":true,
"display_url":"https://.../670922807_..._n.jpg",
"video_view_count":310344,
"video_url":"https://.../video.mp4",
"has_audio":true,
"clips_music_attribution_info":{
"artist_name":"sfgate",
"song_name":"Original audio",
"uses_original_audio":true,
"should_mute_audio":false,
"should_mute_audio_reason":"",
"audio_id":"35605659979019192"
},
"is_published":true,
"location":{
"id":"213385402",
"name":"New York, New York"
},
"has_upcoming_event":false,
"comments_disabled":false,
"like_and_view_counts_disabled":false,
"viewer_can_reshare":true,
"coauthor_producers":[],
"pinned_for_users":[],
"product_type":"clips",
"dimensions":{
"height":1920,
"width":1080
},
"caption":"Virtually trying on outfits with Google? That's actually groundbreaking. #sponsored",
"hashtags":["sponsored","DevilWearsPrada2"],
"mentions":["20thcenturystudios"],
"like_count":34790,
"comment_count":181,
"owner":{
"id":"52132470720",
"username":"shopwithgoogle"
},
"tagged_user":[
{
"full_name":"Google",
"followed_by_viewer":false,
"id":"1067259270",
"is_verified":true,
"profile_pic_url":"https://.../google.jpg",
"username":"google"
}
]
}
],
"latest_igtv_videos":[
{
"id":"2892596643067882496",
"shortcode":"CgkkVI8jGwA",
"url":"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgkkVI8jGwA/",
"taken_at_timestamp":1659044430,
"taken_at":"2022-07-28T21:40:30Z",
"is_video":true,
"display_url":"https://.../296019923_..._n.jpg",
"dimensions":{
"height":995,
"width":640
},
"caption":"The votes are in! Congratulations to the five #DoodleForGoogle National Finalists...",
"hashtags":["DoodleForGoogle"],
"mentions":[],
"like_count":10416,
"comment_count":132,
"video_view_count":66765,
"video_duration":28.733,
"video_url":"https://.../igtv.mp4",
"has_audio":true,
"clips_music_attribution_info":{
"artist_name":"amd",
"song_name":"Original audio",
"uses_original_audio":true,
"should_mute_audio":false,
"should_mute_audio_reason":"",
"audio_id":"35013907618255255"
},
"is_published":true,
"location":{
"id":"213385402",
"name":"New York, New York"
},
"has_upcoming_event":false,
"comments_disabled":false,
"like_and_view_counts_disabled":false,
"viewer_can_reshare":true,
"coauthor_producers":[],
"pinned_for_users":[],
"product_type":"igtv",
"owner":{
"id":"1067259270",
"username":"google"
},
"tagged_user":[]
}
],
"related_profiles":[
{
"id":"64421231679",
"username":"datacentersatmeta",
"full_name":"Meta Data Centers",
"is_private":false,
"is_verified":true,
"profile_pic_url":"https://.../420640291_..._n.jpg"
},
{
"id":"2491086563",
"username":"surface",
"full_name":"Microsoft Surface",
"is_private":false,
"is_verified":true,
"profile_pic_url":"https://.../569809183_..._n.jpg"
}
],
"ig_status":"ok",
"crawled_at":"2026-04-21T14:17:37.585Z"
}

Example dataset item when a profile is not found:

{
"username":"11",
"ig_status":"not_found",
"message":"Profile not found or restricted",
"url":"https://www.instagram.com/11/",
"crawled_at":"2026-02-06T08:03:20.522Z"
}

Here, ig_status: "not_found" means Instagram did not return profile data for that username because the profile does not exist or access to it is restricted.

Tips & troubleshooting

Don’t overload the actor. If you need to scrape large lists, split inputs into batches.

Legal & ethical notice

You are responsible for ensuring your use of this actor complies with:

• Instagram’s Terms of Service
• Applicable laws and regulations (privacy, data protection, etc.)

Only scrape data you have the right to access, and avoid collecting personal data without a lawful basis.