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Instagram Scraper - All in one

Interested in using this scraper? Get it here: Instagram Scraper - All in one

Scrape instagram data such as profiles details, posts, comments, likes, hashtags etc from instagram with this all in one instagram scraper

Use cases of instagram profiles scraper

Scrape instagram profiles to

  • Find influencers in your niche and filter best ones, and get their contact details with the help of followers count, email, and other details
  • Analyse followers of accounts similar to yours and plan your content accordingly

Use cases of instagram post scraper

Scrape posts from any instagram user to

  • Analyse best performing posts with the help of engagement insights like comments count, likes count data.
  • Bulk generate content ideas by with the help of ChatGPT

Getting started with instagram instagram scraper

To access certain kinds of data you need to be logged in. If you provide your instagram cookies scraper will use them for authorization

Follow these steps to obtain cookies

  1. Install EditThisCookie chrome extension
  2. Login to your instagram account
  3. While you are on instagram tab, Click on the extension and export the cookies
  4. Paste the cookies to this actor's Cookie input field
  5. Specify the kind of data you want to scrape and other info
  6. Set pagination limits to determine the number of pages to scrape.
  7. (Optional) Configure proxy settings for enhanced reliability.
  8. Run the actor and obtain the extracted data in your preferred format.

Instagram scraper options

How to scrape instagram followers

  1. Select action as 'Scrape instagram followers'
  2. Go to 'Scrape instagram followers' section Instagram followers scraper options
  3. Enter the profile URL of the instagram user
  4. Insert the instagram cookies in to 'Cookies' field
  5. Select a proxy of your instagram account's country
  6. Enter number of records neeeded, or leave it blank if you want to scrape all followers
  7. Click 'Run' and wait for the scraper to finish
  8. Click on 'Log' tab for detailed progress of the scraping job

You can follow similar approach to scrape other data types such as posts, post likes, comments, etc

How to get instagram post URL

To get instagram post URL, you can simply click on the 3 dots button at top right corner and click on "Copy link" option as shown below

How to get link to instagram post

Apify proxy

This instagram data extractor uses Apify proxy as the proxy solution. Apify has a free plan that gives you free credits worth $5 per month which makes it ideal for the development phase, but can be easily scaled up to millions of pages per month if needs be.

You can sign up for a free account here

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Integrations

You can use Make to integrate instagram data to any other SaaS platform by designing your own automation flows.

Instagram scraper API

The actor stores results in a dataset. You can export data in various formats such as CSV, JSON, XLS, etc. You can scrape and access data on demand using API. For more information, Go to All in one Instagram API integration page