Instagram Scraper

Overview

The Instagram Scraper is a powerful and reliable extraction tool designed for social media marketers, researchers, and brands. It allows you to gather deep intelligence from public Instagram profiles, including detailed follower/following counts, engagement rates, bio text, and public contact information. You can also scrape individual posts, reels, and IGTV videos to extract high-resolution images, full captions, timestamps, likes, and comments. Furthermore, you can track the performance of specific hashtags to monitor brand mentions or discover trending content. With built-in proxy rotation and automatic pagination, this tool bypasses Instagram's strict anti-bot protections to deliver clean, structured data at scale.

Key Features

Input Parameters

Sample Output

{
  "inputUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/apifytech/",
  "id": "4107246533",
  "username": "apifytech",
  "fullName": "Apify",
  "biography": "Web scraping and data extraction platform 🚀",
  "externalUrl": "https://apify.com",
  "followersCount": 12450,
  "followsCount": 543,
  "hasChannel": false,
  "isBusinessAccount": true,
  "joinedRecently": false,
  "private": false,
  "verified": true,
  "profilePicUrl": "https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/...",
  "postsCount": 342,
  "latestPosts": [...]
}

How to Use

1. 1

   Click 'Try for Free' to open the Instagram Scraper on Apify.

2. 2

   Sign up for a free Apify account if you haven't already.

3. 3

   Configure the input: Enter Instagram usernames, post URLs, or hashtags.

4. 4

   Select what you want to extract (e.g., Profile details, latest posts, or comments).

5. 5

   Set a limit on the number of results to control costs and time.

6. 6

   Click 'Start' and download your exported data in Excel, CSV, or JSON.

API Example

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

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

const input = {
    "directUrls": [
        "https://www.instagram.com/apifytech/"
    ],
    "resultsType": "posts",
    "resultsLimit": 50
};

const run = await client.actor("apify/instagram-scraper").call(input);

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

Pricing Structure

Pay-per-result model. Costs $1.50 per 1,000 results. With Apify's $5 free monthly credit, you can scrape roughly 3,300 posts or profiles per month at no cost.

Limitations

• Cannot scrape private accounts unless you provide authenticating cookies (which is risky and can lead to bans).
• Instagram frequently updates its layout, which may temporarily break the scraper until it is updated by the developers.
• Extracting followers/following lists is highly restricted by Instagram and requires specialized actors or very slow extraction rates.

Frequently Asked Questions