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📸 Instagram Profile Scraper

A blazing-fast, credential-free Apify actor that scrapes public Instagram profiles.
No login. No cookies. No API keys. Just results.

Note: Use RESIDENTIAL proxies for best results. Otherwise you will get rate limited or blocked by Instagram.

✨ Features

• ⚡ Fast — typically 1-3 seconds per profile using Instagram's internal REST API
• 🛡️ Reliable — 3-tier fallback strategy (REST API → legacy API → HTML parse)
• 🔒 No auth required — only scrapes publicly visible data
• 📦 Rich output — profile info, posts, IGTV, related profiles, external links
• 💰 Pay-per-event — only charged for successful scrapes

📥 Input

Example Input

{
"usernames":[
"nasa",
"natgeo",
"https://www.instagram.com/spacex"
],
"maxPosts":12,
"maxIgtvVideos":6
}

Output

The actor extracts comprehensive profile data including basic info, statistics, posts, and related profiles.

Sample Output

{
"inputUrl":"https://www.instagram.com/nasa",
"id":"528817151",
"username":"nasa",
"url":"https://www.instagram.com/nasa",
"fullName":"NASA",
"biography":"🚀 🌎 Exploring the universe and our home planet. Verification: nasa.gov/socialmedia",
"about":{
"accounts_with_shared_followers":null,
"country":null,
"date_joined":null,
"date_joined_as_timestamp":null,
"date_verified":null,
"date_verified_as_timestamp":null,
"former_usernames":0,
"id":"528817151",
"is_verified":true,
"username":"nasa"
},
"followersCount":98209149,
"followsCount":92,
"postsCount":4591,
"highlightReelCount":7,
"igtvVideoCount":171,
"isBusinessAccount":true,
"joinedRecently":false,
"hasChannel":false,
"businessCategoryName":null,
"private":false,
"verified":true,
"externalUrl":"https://www.nasa.gov/",
"externalUrlShimmed":"https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2F&e=...",
"externalUrls":[
{
"title":"Launches & Landings",
"lynx_url":"https://l.instagram.com/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnasa.gov%2Fevents&e=...",
"url":"http://nasa.gov/events",
"link_type":"external"
},
{
"title":"NASA+",
"lynx_url":"https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.nasa.gov%2F&e=...",
"url":"https://plus.nasa.gov",
"link_type":"external"
}
],
"profilePicUrl":"https://instagram.famd21-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/...",
"profilePicUrlHD":"https://instagram.famd21-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/...",
"relatedProfiles":[
{
"id":"953293389",
"full_name":"International Space Station",
"is_private":false,
"is_verified":true,
"profile_pic_url":"https://...",
"username":"iss"
}
],
"latestPosts":[
{
"id":"3710009743416087462",
"type":"Video",
"shortCode":"DN8mjSFjdOm",
"caption":"We're going up, up, up, it's our moment! 🎶...",
"hashtags":["NASARoman","Astrophysics","SpaceTelescope"],
"mentions":["NASAGoddard","NASAUniverse"],
"url":"https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8mjSFjdOm/",
"commentsCount":429,
"dimensionsHeight":853,
"dimensionsWidth":480,
"displayUrl":"https://scontent-lga3-3.cdninstagram.com/v/...",
"images":[],
"videoUrl":"https://scontent-lga3-2.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/...",
"alt":null,
"likesCount":53833,
"videoViewCount":926847,
"timestamp":"2025-08-29T17:16:11.000Z",
"childPosts":[],
"ownerUsername":"nasa",
"ownerId":"528817151",
"productType":"clips",
"taggedUsers":[
{
"full_name":"NASA Goddard",
"id":"3808579",
"is_verified":true,
"profile_pic_url":"https://...",
"username":"nasagoddard"
}
],
"isCommentsDisabled":false
}
],
"latestIgtvVideos":[
{
"id":"3073651751604454027",
"type":"Video",
"shortCode":"CqnzfuxpAKL",
"title":"",
"caption":"On April 3, we announced the team of space explorers...",
"commentsCount":2378,
"dimensionsHeight":1920,
"dimensionsWidth":1080,
"displayUrl":"https://...",
"likesCount":330976,
"videoDuration":1122.054,
"videoViewCount":2430081,
"videoUrl":"https://...",
"timestamp":"2023-04-04T17:04:37.000Z",
"ownerUsername":"nasa",
"ownerId":"528817151"
}
]
}

Notes

⚠️ Important:

• Instagram may rate-limit or block requests if you scrape too aggressively
• Use Apify Proxy for production scraping to avoid rate limits (RESIDENTIAL proxy recommended)
• Always respect Instagram's Terms of Service and robots.txt
• Use reasonable delays between requests
• This actor is for educational purposes