# 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, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

## Instagram Creator Lead Extractor — Influencer Emails & Analytics

Scrape public Instagram profiles to find creator leads with business emails, follower stats, engagement metrics, and business category. This Instagram creator lead extractor helps influencer marketing agencies and e-commerce brands build targeted outreach lists.

### How It Works

The actor launches a fingerprinted Playwright browser against each Instagram profile URL you supply, waits for the React app to hydrate, and runs an in-page `evaluate` to read `og:` meta tags, stat spans (followers/following/posts), the bio text, external website link, verified badge, business category, and profile image. It then regex-extracts emails and phones from the combined bio, page text, and website, filters out role-based and common free-mail addresses, and computes a 0-100 creator score from follower tier, verification, business status, email availability, website, and category. Each enriched record is pushed to the dataset incrementally.

### Features

- **Profile scraping**: Extract data from any public Instagram profile
- **Email discovery**: Business emails from bio and external links
- **Follower analytics**: Follower count, following, post count
- **Verification detection**: Identify verified creator accounts
- **Business category**: Extract Instagram business categories
- **CRM-ready export**: JSON, CSV, HubSpot, Apollo, Salesforce
- **Engagement scoring**: 0-100 quality score per creator

### Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|---------|-------------|
| `profileUrls` | array | — | Instagram profile URLs |
| `maxResults` | integer | `10` | Max profiles (1-500) |
| `minFollowers` | integer | `1000` | Follower threshold |
| `categories` | array | — | Business category filter |
| `includeEmail` | boolean | true | Extract business emails |
| `outputFormat` | string | `json` | Export format |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify Proxy | Proxy for reliable scraping |

### Output Example

```json
{
  "username": "fitnesswithalex",
  "fullName": "Alex Rivera Fitness",
  "bio": "NASM-CPT. DM for coaching. business@fitnesswithalex.com",
  "followers": 287000,
  "following": 412,
  "postsCount": 956,
  "isVerified": true,
  "isBusiness": true,
  "businessCategory": "Health & Wellness Website",
  "website": "https://fitnesswithalex.com/",
  "emails": ["business@fitnesswithalex.com"],
  "phones": [],
  "creatorScore": 78,
  "profileUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/fitnesswithalex/",
  "profileImage": "https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/fitnesswithalex.jpg",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-27T18:30:00.000Z"
}
```

### Use Cases

- **Influencer marketing**: Build outreach lists by niche and follower count
- **Brand partnerships**: Find creators in your target demographics
- **Agency prospecting**: Discover talent for client campaigns
- **Competitive research**: Audit competitor influencer partnerships

# 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

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Select a proxy to avoid blocking. Use Apify Proxy (recommended) or bring your own.

## 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",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# 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(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).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": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,avinashchby/instagram-creator-leads"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/X1fyKY80r150D1lzU/builds/46GOW2i5UYFfSQwmB/openapi.json