# Instagram Creator Lead Extractor (`avinashchby/instagram-creator-leads`) Actor

Scrape public Instagram profiles to find creator leads with business emails, follower stats, engagement metrics, and business category. Perfect for influencer marketing agencies and e-commerce brands.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/avinashchby/instagram-creator-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Avinash](https://apify.com/avinashchby) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Instagram Creator Lead Extractor

Scrape public Instagram profiles to find creator leads with business emails, follower stats, engagement metrics, and business category. Perfect for influencer marketing agencies and e-commerce brands building outreach lists.

### What it does

1. **Scrapes public Instagram profiles** — loads profile pages via Playwright with anti-bot stealth
2. **Extracts follower metrics** — followers, following, post count with K/M/B parsing
3. **Finds contact details** — emails and phones from bio text and external website links
4. **Detects business accounts** — identifies business/creator accounts and category labels
5. **Scores creator quality** — 0-100 score based on followers, verification, business status, and contact availability
6. **Filters by criteria** — minimum followers, business category keywords

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `profileUrls` | array | `[nike, adidas]` | Instagram profile URLs to scrape |
| `maxResults` | integer | `10` | Maximum profiles to process (1-500) |
| `minFollowers` | integer | `1000` | Skip profiles below this follower count |
| `categories` | array | `[]` | Filter by business category keywords |
| `includeEmail` | boolean | `true` | Extract emails from bio and links |
| `outputFormat` | string | `json` | `json`, `csv`, `hubspot`, `apollo`, `salesforce` |

### Output Example

```json
{
  "username": "nike",
  "fullName": "Nike",
  "bio": "Just Do It. \u270c\ufe0f\ufe0f",
  "followers": 305000000,
  "following": 148,
  "postsCount": 894,
  "isVerified": true,
  "isBusiness": true,
  "businessCategory": "Retail Company",
  "website": "https://www.nike.com",
  "emails": ["press@nike.com"],
  "phones": [],
  "creatorScore": 100,
  "profileUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/nike/",
  "profileImage": "https://...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-19T08:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Creator Score Formula

| Factor | Points |
|--------|--------|
| Followers 1M+ | 35 |
| Followers 100K+ | 25 |
| Followers 10K+ | 15 |
| Followers 1K+ | 8 |
| Verified badge | 20 |
| Business account | 15 |
| Has email | 15 |
| Has website | 10 |
| Business category | 5 |

### Limits

- **Public profiles only** — private accounts show limited data
- **Anti-bot protection** — Instagram may block aggressive scraping; delays and stealth args are used
- **No login required** — only scrapes publicly visible profile data
- **Rate limits** — recommend max 50 profiles per run to avoid blocks

### Pricing

- **Free tier**: 10 profiles per run
- **Pay-per-result**: $0.005 per profile processed
- **Subscription**: $59/month for unlimited runs

### Support

Found a bug or need a custom feature? Open an issue or email support.

# Actor input Schema

## `profileUrls` (type: `array`):

List of Instagram profile URLs to scrape (e.g., https://www.instagram.com/nike/)

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of profiles to process

## `minFollowers` (type: `integer`):

Skip profiles with fewer followers than this threshold

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Filter by business category keywords (e.g., 'Fashion', 'Beauty', 'Fitness')

## `includeEmail` (type: `boolean`):

Extract emails from bio text and external links

## `outputFormat` (type: `string`):

Export format for lead data

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/nike/",
    "https://www.instagram.com/adidas/"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "minFollowers": 1000,
  "categories": [],
  "includeEmail": true,
  "outputFormat": "json"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All extracted leads.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "profileUrls": [
        "https://www.instagram.com/nike/",
        "https://www.instagram.com/adidas/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("avinashchby/instagram-creator-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "profileUrls": [
        "https://www.instagram.com/nike/",
        "https://www.instagram.com/adidas/",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("avinashchby/instagram-creator-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/nike/",
    "https://www.instagram.com/adidas/"
  ]
}' |
apify call avinashchby/instagram-creator-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=avinashchby/instagram-creator-leads",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/X1fyKY80r150D1lzU/builds/zxmRw2MBu9Mk9LyhN/openapi.json