The 10 best Apify Instagram scrapers

Best for: Pulling profile metadata (followers, bio, external links, post counts) for one account or a bulk list.

Pay-per-result pricing means a row costs a row: no per-event surprises, no paying for posts you didn't ask for. If all you need is the profile object, this is the cheapest predictable way to get it.

Best for: Fetching the live stories (images and videos) of any public profile before they expire.

Stories vanish in 24 hours, so a focused actor that grabs them cleanly beats a general scraper that wasn't built for ephemeral media. One of 20+ story actors on the store, and this one keeps the output flat and the input dead simple.

Best for: Exporting the followers or following list of any public profile, batched and priced by the row.

Follower scraping is the most crowded Instagram niche on Apify: dozens of actors, wildly different reliability. Batch-of-50 pricing keeps a big export predictable instead of metered per event.

Best for: Extracting emails and phone numbers from profile bios and linked pages for outreach.

Built for one job, turning profiles into contactable leads, instead of bolting contact fields onto a general scrape. Feed it usernames from a hashtag or follower run and you have an outreach list.

Best for: Grabbing the full-quality video file from any reel or post URL: no metrics, just the media.

When you only want the file, you shouldn't pay for an analytics payload. Priced per post, it's the lean option for archiving or re-posting workflows.

Best for: Computing engagement rate, content mix, and audience signals before you pay a creator.

The most expensive entry per record, but it replaces a manual audit. One number, engagement rate you can trust, is worth more than raw posts when you're deciding who to sponsor.