Instagram Follower Scraper

Scrapes the complete list of followers for any public Instagram profile, returning structured user data. Designed for automation, lead generation, and audience analysis.

Overview

This actor extracts follower data from a target Instagram account. You provide a profile URL or username and your Instagram session cookies. It returns a JSON dataset containing metadata for each follower, such as username, follower counts, and verification status. The scraper supports resuming from a previous run to avoid redundant work.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Data: Scrapes full name, username, follower count, following count, post count, verification status, privacy status, and profile picture URL for each follower.
• Resume Functionality: Use the continue_from_last parameter to pick up exactly where a previous scrape stopped, saving time and compute resources.
• High Speed: Can scrape approximately 1,000 followers per minute.
• Flexible Output: Returns clean, structured JSON ready for integration into databases, CRMs, or other systems.
• Scalable: Handles scraping tens of thousands of followers reliably.

How to Use

1. Get Your Cookies: You must provide a valid Instagram session cookie.
   • Install the Chrome extension: Export cookie JSON file for Puppeteer.
   • Log into Instagram in Chrome.
   • Click the extension icon and select "Export cookies as JSON".
   • Copy the entire contents of the downloaded JSON file.
2. Configure the Actor:
   • Paste the cookie JSON into the instagram_cookie input field.
   • Enter the target profile's URL or username in target_username.
   • (Optional) Set max_followers_to_scrape to limit the run.
3. Run: Start the actor. The results will be available in the dataset as JSON.

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Input / Output

Key Input Parameters

• instagram_cookie (Required): Your Instagram session cookies in JSON format.
• target_username: The Instagram profile URL or username to scrape.
• max_followers_to_scrape: Maximum number of followers to collect.
• continue_from_last: Set to true to resume from the last saved position.
• fetch_detailed_info: Set to true to get follower/following/post counts (slower). If false, only basic info is retrieved.
• start_from_position: Start scraping from a specific follower index.

Output Format

The dataset contains one JSON object per follower. Example:

{
  "follower_name": "Jane Doe",
  "follower_username": "janedoe",
  "follower_count": 2450,
  "following_count": 400,
  "post_count": 30,
  "is_verified": false,
  "is_private": false,
  "profile_pic_url": "https://..."
}

Use Cases

• Lead Generation: Extract followers from competitor or community accounts.
• Influencer & Market Research: Analyze the audience of specific creators or brands.
• Audience Mapping: Build social connection graphs.
• Data Enrichment: Feed structured follower data into CRM or analytics systems.