Instagram Account Scraper

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Extract public profile data from any Instagram account in bulk — username, full name, bio, follower / following / posts count, profile picture, verified status, business category, and link in bio — in a clean structured JSON output.

Why use this actor

• No account / no login required — just give it an Instagram username or profile URL.
• No API key needed — Instagram's Graph API is gated behind app review; this actor returns the same data the public web profile shows.
• Rich detail — full name, bio, followers, following, posts count, profile picture (HD), verified badge, professional/business flags, business category, and the external link in bio.
• Bulk input — pass a list of usernames or URLs in one run; one clean dataset row per profile.
• Automatic retries — transient failures retry with exponential backoff; private, deactivated, or non-existent accounts surface as _error: "not_found" / _error: "login_required" so you can triage failures.
• Stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, spreadsheets, and databases — every row carries _input, _source, _scrapedAt envelope fields so you can join results back to your input list.

How it works

1. You provide a list of Instagram usernames (e.g. instagram) or full profile URLs (e.g. https://www.instagram.com/instagram/).
2. The actor fetches each profile the same way Instagram's web app does and assembles a flat JSON record with bio, counts, and verification flags.
3. Results stream into your dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You do not need to manage scrapers, browsers, or rotating IPs — all handled internally.

Input

{
"usernames":[
"instagram",
"cristiano"
],
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true,
"apifyProxyGroups":["DATACENTER"]
}
}

Output

Input: instagram

{
"_input":"instagram",
"_source":"S1-primary",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T10:53:24.880672+00:00",
"id":"25025320",
"fbid":"17841400039600391",
"eimu_id":"117943452927407",
"username":"instagram",
"full_name":"Instagram",
"biography":"Discover what's new on Instagram 🔎✨",
"external_url":"http://help.instagram.com/",
"bio_links":[
{"title":"","url":"http://help.instagram.com","link_type":"external"},
{"title":"Close Friends Only Podcast with KATSEYE","url":"https://youtu.be/dkXpIRUBfyg","link_type":"external"}
],
"edge_followed_by":{"count":685807483},
"edge_follow":{"count":196},
"edge_owner_to_timeline_media":{"count":8439},
"highlight_reel_count":15,
"is_verified":true,
"is_private":false,
"is_business_account":false,
"is_professional_account":true,
"is_joined_recently":false,
"business_category_name":null,
"category_name":null,
"category_enum":null,
"business_email":null,
"business_phone_number":null,
"business_address_json":null,
"has_clips":true,
"has_channel":false,
"has_guides":false,
"pronouns":[],
"profile_pic_url":"https://instagram.fcgk52-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-19/550891366_18667771684001321_...jpg",
"profile_pic_url_hd":"https://instagram.fcgk52-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-19/550891366_18667771684001321_...jpg"
}

The raw payload also includes recent timeline media edges (edge_owner_to_timeline_media.edges, edge_felix_video_timeline.edges, etc.). They are preserved for advanced users but truncated above for readability — for a full post-by-post feed use the Instagram Account Posts or Instagram Account Reels actor instead.

Error envelope

Private, deactivated, login-walled, or non-existent accounts return a structured error instead of crashing the run:

{
"_input":"this-handle-does-not-exist-xyz",
"_source":"S1-primary",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T10:53:25.118402+00:00",
"_error":"not_found",
"_errorDetail":"NotFound: user does not exist"
}

Possible _error values:

Filter on _error to triage failed rows.

Pricing

This actor is billed per result: $6.00 per 1,000 profiles. Each successful profile = 1 result. Errors (not_found, login_required, fetch_failed) are not billed.

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Notes

• Instagram applies aggressive rate limiting to anonymous lookups. For batches over a few hundred accounts, expect the actor to slow down between requests; the run will still complete, just over a longer wall-clock time.
• Private accounts return only the public-facing fields (counts, bio, avatar, verified flag) — the grid (edge_owner_to_timeline_media.edges) will be empty. Use the Account Posts actor with an authenticated session if you need private content (not supported here).
• Follower counts are rounded by Instagram for very large accounts (over ~10K). The number you see in edge_followed_by.count reflects what Instagram exposes publicly, which may differ from the live internal value by up to a few thousand.
• Link in bio: Instagram now supports multiple links per profile. The legacy single link sits in external_url; the full list is in bio_links.
• The id field is the most reliable identifier — usernames can change but id does not.
• Newly-created accounts may take a few hours before they appear in public lookups.