Instagram

Instagram Profile Scraper

Extracts public Instagram profile data by username — name, bio, follower and following counts, category and business classification, verification and privacy flags, bio links, homepage, profile image URLs, post and video counts, and contact details including email and phone where the account publishes them.

Run on Apify1,807 userson Apify, measured 2026-08-24

What it extracts

Every field below comes from the Actor’s published dataset schema.

Field	Description	Type
`username`	Username	text
`name`	Full Name	text
`followers`	Followers	number
`follows`	Follows	number
`isVerified`	Verified	boolean
`isPrivate`	Private	boolean
`isBusinessAccount`	Business Account	boolean
`hasContacts`	Has Contacts	boolean
`allEmails`	Emails	array
`allPhoneNumbers`	Phone Numbers	array
`socialLinks`	Social Links	array
`websiteLinks`	Website Links	array
`category`	Category	text
`success`	Success	boolean

Input parameters

Generated from the Actor’s input schema — the same fields the Apify console shows.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`usernames`	array	Required	List of Instagram usernames or profile URLs to scrape (e.g. bigfootvlog, @bigfootvlog, or https://www.instagram.com/bigfootvlog/)
`proxyConfiguration`	object	Optional	Select proxies to be used by the scraper. Residential proxies recommended.

API access

Run this Actor from your own code over the Apify API.

Inputjson

{
  "usernames": [
    "bigfootvlog"
  ]
}

REST — run and get resultsbash

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/logical_scrapers~instagram-profile-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"usernames":["bigfootvlog"]}'

JavaScript — apify-clientjavascript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' })

const run = await client.actor('logical_scrapers~instagram-profile-scraper').call({
  "usernames": [
    "bigfootvlog"
  ]
})

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems()
console.log(items)

Python — apify-clientpython

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("logical_scrapers~instagram-profile-scraper").call(run_input={
    "usernames": [
        "bigfootvlog",
    ],
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Runs are executed on Apify. Create an API token in your Apify account, then call the Actor over REST or with the official client for your language. The same input object works in the Apify console, so you can test interactively before automating.

Use cases

Influencer research

Screen creators by follower count, category and verification before outreach, and capture their contact method.

Creator outreach

Collect the email or phone a business account exposes through its contact button, alongside its bio links.

Brand and competitor monitoring

Track profile-level metrics for a set of accounts over time.

Audience and market analysis

Compare category, business classification and audience size across a segment of accounts.

Pricing

Pay per event — you are charged for each successfully scraped result item.

Current rates are published on the Apify listing and can change, so they are not duplicated here. See pricing on Apify

Reliability

99.4% run success rate

Measured across all public Goldmine Actors on Apify, 2026-08-24. This is an account-level figure, not a per-Actor benchmark — per-Actor speed and completeness benchmarks are not yet published. Source.

Limitations

What this Actor does not do, so you can tell before you run it whether it fits.

Public profiles only. Private accounts return no profile detail.
Contact details are returned only when the account publishes them — typically business and creator accounts with a contact button, or an address written into the bio.
Returns profile-level data, not posts. Use Instagram Post & Comments Scraper for post content.
Instagram rate-limits aggressively; residential proxies are recommended for reliable runs.

Frequently asked questions

Does it need login cookies?

No. It reads public profiles without authentication, and rotates sessions with built-in retries on failure.

What input does it take?

An array of usernames, with or without the leading @. Multiple profiles can be processed in one run.

Which proxy should I use?

Residential proxies are recommended. Instagram is one of the platforms where anti-bot pressure is confirmed and datacenter addresses are blocked more often.

Used for

Workflows this Actor is part of, and the other scrapers it chains with.