In short: This bot scrapes Instagram followers' names and URLs of a specified account.
For the parser to work, the profile needs to be publicly open.
Have a look at the example output data file.
How to scrape Instagram followers?
- Sign up on Botster
- Head to this bot's Start page
- Chose any account which is publicly open
- Copy its' URL (e.g. https://www.instagram.com/jaredleto)
- Paste the URL into the bot's input form
- Select the number of followers you'd like to scrape
- Click the Start Bot button
You are done!
Download your data in XLSX, JSON, or CSV formats.
Returned data
- Profile id
- Instagram username
- Name on Instagram
- Avatar URL
- Verified account (yes/no)
FAQ and troubleshooting
Private profiles
Due to obvious reasons, Instagram does not allow scraping follower lists of private profiles.
Duplicate or incomplete data
When viewing your results you may notice that a number of accounts is missing. Unfortunately in many cases Instagram's frontend returns duplicate data which we automatically remove. After a series of investigations we can conclude that there's nothing we can do about it (sadly). So, in a nutshell:
- Instagram returns duplicates
- We remove those duplicates, hence the total number of scraped profiles decreases
- There's nothing we can do about it
