How to Scrape Instagram Followers to Network with Businesses and Customers

Why Scrape Instagram Followers?

In a nutshell, scraping is a process that extracts data from a targeted website such as Instagram. And you may wish to scrape Instagram followers to be able to reach the demographic you cater to.

Sometimes Instagram posts, stories, reels, and messages don’t work. In such a case, you should try contacting your audience outside of the social media platform. For that, you need their contact details (like email addresses), which you can get by scraping their Instagram profiles.

Additionally, when you don’t know what Instagram profiles to network with, one effective way is to sneak a peek at your competitors. For example, you can generate leads by scraping your competition’s Instagram followers and following lists. If you find the right profiles to scrape, you’ll get the usernames of your potential customers and other businesses that you can communicate with.

How to Scrape Instagram Followers?

There are many services that export followers from any Instagram profile in bulk. A popular option is to buy the data from the Influencers Club. You can also use their service when in need of an Instagram email scraper. Influencers Club promises to deliver the information within three working days.

There’s also Botster, Phantom Buster, AvoData, and other scraping services – all somewhat different. But if you’d rather scrape Instagram followers yourself, you’ll probably have to write code using Python with Selenium. You can find guides (like this) online.

Alternatively, you can use our Social Media Scraping API to collect Instagram accounts' data, like usernames, posts, and hashtags. It delivers the results in raw HTML or structured JSON at a 100% success rate. The best part is that all you need to do is send one API request since the tool takes care of proxy management and the scraping process for you. Besides, depending on your preferences, you can choose between real-time and callback request methods.

By the way, none of the other services mentioned above provide 24/7 customer support except for us. Feel free to contact our dedicated team at any time!

How to Make Use of the Instagram Followers and Following Lists?

Now that you have a list of Instagram accounts that you can interact with, how should you proceed? You can follow each account, send messages to them as well as ‘like’ and comment on their posts. It’s too time-consuming, however, to go through this process manually. To make it easier, you can use bots and proxies.

Shop around to find some bots you like. A few notable options include Follow Liker and Inflact. Once you pick something out, the next step is to look into proxies because without them, Instagram will immediately shut your project down.

We recommend getting residential proxies as they provide IP addresses of household devices. With Smartproxy residential proxies, you can simply copy your credentials from the dashboard into your chosen bot. Since the danger of getting banned remains even when using bots with proxies, don’t forget to be smart about how you use them. In essence, your bots have to resemble human rather than automated activity.

On a Final Note

If we’ve learned anything today, it’s that the key to successful networking on Instagram starts with scraping the profiles of your target audience and then using the acquired information to connect with them. You can do so manually, but you would be wasting a lot of time. Trust us, it’s wise to use automation.

Automated solutions usually have to go hand in hand with proxies so that your activity appears human-like. Otherwise, you’re setting yourself up for failure. For this task, look no further than our residential proxies!