Instagram Profile Scraper

An Apify actor that extracts public data from Instagram profiles. It returns structured JSON containing profile metadata, engagement metrics, and media URLs, suitable for analysis, research, or integration into other applications.

Key Features

• Profile Data: Extracts username, full name, biography, account ID, and verification status.
• Engagement Metrics: Gets follower, following, and post counts, plus highlight and IGTV video totals.
• Business Insights: Identifies business accounts, their category, and external links (website/link-in-bio).
• Media Assets: Retrieves standard and high-definition profile picture URLs.
• Utility Features: Supports batch processing of multiple profiles, proxy rotation for reliability, and provides clean, timestamped JSON output.

How to Use

Configure the actor's input with a JSON object containing the target Instagram profile URL(s) and start the run.

Input

Provide the profile URL in the required format. For a single profile:

{
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/nba/"
}

For batch processing, pass an array of such objects.

Output

The actor returns an array of objects. Each contains the scraped data and metadata for one profile.

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.instagram.com/nba/",
    "source": "instagram",
    "error": false,
    "data": {
      "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/nba/",
      "username": "nba",
      "url": "https://www.instagram.com/nba",
      "scrapedAt": "2025-12-17T13:06:16.016142+00:00",
      "id": "20824486",
      "fullName": "NBA",
      "biography": "The Knicks are the 2025 Emirates NBA Cup Champions! ",
      "followersCount": 90382891,
      "followsCount": 1276,
      "postsCount": 95628,
      "highlightReelCount": 12,
      "igtvVideoCount": 728,
      "isBusinessAccount": true,
      "businessCategoryName": "None",
      "private": false,
      "verified": true,
      "externalUrl": "https://linkin.bio/nba",
      "profilePicUrl": "https://scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/...profile.jpg",
      "profilePicUrlHD": "https://scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/...profile-hd.jpg"
    }
  }
]

Key Output Fields:
* Profile: username, fullName, biography, id, verified, private
* Engagement: followersCount, followsCount, postsCount
* Business: isBusinessAccount, businessCategoryName, externalUrl
* Media: profilePicUrl, profilePicUrlHD
* Metadata: scrapedAt (ISO timestamp), inputUrl