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Instagram Similar Businesses Finder
Find the businesses Instagram suggests as similar to any business or creator account β usernames, categories, and profile details.
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Discover the businesses Instagram itself suggests as similar to any business or creator account β complete with business category labels. No login required.
What you get
For each suggested business, the finder returns:
- Username, full name, and profile URL β ready for outreach or further scraping
- Business category (e.g. "Media/news company", "Sportswear Store", "Digital creator") and category ID
- Verified and private status of each account
- Profile picture URL
- The seed account each suggestion came from (
seedUsername), so you can run many seeds and keep results organized - Results are deduplicated by user ID β one clean row per business
- Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets directly from the Apify console
Use cases
- Competitor discovery β start from one known competitor and let Instagram's own suggestion engine reveal the rest of the competitive landscape
- Lead generation by niche β pull suggested businesses with their category labels and filter to exactly the verticals you sell to
- Partnership prospecting β find brands and creators adjacent to yours for collabs, sponsorships, and cross-promotion
- Market mapping β chain runs (feed each result back in as a new seed) to map an entire industry cluster on Instagram
- Influencer and brand vetting β see which accounts Instagram associates with a prospect before you commit budget
How to use
- Enter an Instagram username (with or without @) of a business or creator account
- Set Max Items (default 0 returns all suggestions Instagram provides)
- Run the actor β results appear in the Dataset tab, one business per row
- Export, or feed any resulting username back in as a new seed to expand your map
Output format
Each dataset record:
{"seedUsername":"natgeo","userId":"5445218106","username":"the_scientist_magazine","fullName":"The Scientist Magazine","category":"Media/news company","categoryId":"2233","isVerified":false,"isPrivate":false,"profilePicUrl":"https://...jpg","profileUrl":"https://www.instagram.com/the_scientist_magazine/","followerCount":null}
