📸 Instagram Search Scraper

🚀 Lookup any Instagram profile in seconds. Get 18 fields per username including followers, following, posts, bio, external links, verified status, and profile picture. No login, no API key, no Meta Developer account.

The Instagram Search Scraper accepts a list of Instagram usernames and returns a structured profile record per handle. You get follower count, following count, total post count, biography, external URL, verified status, private-account flag, business-account flag, category name (for business accounts), bio link list, and a high-resolution profile picture URL. All through Instagram's public web profile info endpoint, which works without login when paired with the Apify residential proxy.

Concurrent lookups process 15 profiles in parallel, so a prospect list of 100 finishes in about a minute. Output lands in your dataset as clean JSON, ready to import into a CRM, influencer-marketing platform, or lead-enrichment workflow.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Marketers, influencer managers, sales teams, brand monitors, researchers, recruiters	Influencer vetting, CRM enrichment, competitor tracking, lead qualification, brand monitoring

📋 What the Instagram Search Scraper does

Five lookup workflows in a single run:

• 👤 Profile data. Username, full name, user ID, bio, external URL, and bio link list.
• 📊 Engagement metrics. Follower count, following count, and total post count.
• ✅ Status flags. Verified, private-account, and business-account badges.
• 🏷️ Business category. The category_name when the profile is a business account.
• 🖼️ Profile picture. High-resolution avatar URL ready for embedding.

Output includes the original query, the actor type (user), and a timestamp so you always know which profile each record came from and when it was captured.

💡 Why it matters: influencer campaigns and lead enrichment rely on up-to-date follower counts and verified status. Manual lookups do not scale. This Actor turns a list of usernames into a clean dataset in under a minute.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: bio, category, externalUrl, followerCount, fullName, hashtag, isPrivate, isVerified, mediaCount, placeLocation, placeName, postCount, profilePicUrl, profileUrl, query, results, scrapedAt, type, username. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: Instagram blocks datacenter IPs for profile lookups. Always use the Apify residential proxy on paid plans for reliable results. Private profiles return a minimal record with isPrivate: true and no follower or post counts.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Instagram Search Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Paste usernames. Add handles to the queries field. Residential proxy is on by default.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor enrich your list.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to enriched dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

🔗 Recommended Actors

• 📱 Instagram Profile Scraper - Full profile with recent posts
• 📸 Instagram Posts Scraper - Posts from any profile
• 🎞️ Instagram Reel Scraper - Reel data and engagement
• 👥 Facebook Search Scraper - Facebook page discovery
• 🎬 YouTube Transcript Scraper - Full video transcripts

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more social media tools.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with Instagram or Meta. It accesses only publicly available profile data. Respect Instagram's terms of service and applicable privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA) when using profile data commercially.

🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

For faster answers, join our Discord. It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.