Instagram Followers & Following Search
Find public Instagram accounts matching a keyword inside a profile's followers or following list. Search up to 25 target accounts, choose one relationship or both, and export deduplicated matches to JSON, CSV, or Excel.
- runs · 30d
- 152
- success · 30d
- 98.0%
- runs all time
- 158
- users · 30d
- 5
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/data-slayer~instagram-followers-following-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"targetAccounts": [
"instagram"
],
"searchQuery": "meta"
}'{
"targetAccount": string,
"searchQuery": string,
"relationship": string,
"resultPosition": integer,
"accountId": string,
"username": string,
"fullName": string,
"profileUrl": string,
"profilePictureUrl": string,
"isPrivate": boolean,
"isVerified": boolean,
"accountBadges": array,
}Output fields
12 documented fields per record. Showing the first 12.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| targetAccount | string | |
| searchQuery | string | |
| relationship | string | |
| resultPosition | integer | |
| accountId | string | |
| username | string | |
| fullName | string · nullable | |
| profileUrl | string | |
| profilePictureUrl | string · nullable | |
| isPrivate | boolean · nullable | |
| isVerified | boolean · nullable | |
| accountBadges | array |
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Frequently asked questions
What does Instagram Followers & Following Search return?+
Find public Instagram accounts matching a keyword inside a profile's followers or following list. Search up to 25 target accounts, choose one relationship or both, and export deduplicated matches to JSON, CSV, or Excel. It returns 12 documented fields per record.
How much does Instagram Followers & Following Search cost?+
It is priced at $0.700 per 1,000 results (lowest tier), billed through your Apify account. Failed runs are not billed as results.
What format does the data come back in?+
Typed JSON records by default. You can also download a run's dataset as CSV or Excel, or stream it into your own stack.
How reliable is this scraper?+
Over the last 30 days it ran 152 times with a 98.0% success rate.
How do I run it?+
POST a JSON body to the actor's run endpoint with your Apify token, or open it on Apify and start a run from the console.
Run Instagram Followers & Following Search on Apify
One request, structured rows back. Pay per result through your Apify account.