Instagram Lookalike Scraper - Similar Accounts & Followers

Instagram Lookalike Scraper — Find Similar Accounts to Any Profile

Give one seed profile, get a list of similar accounts back — with followers, engagement and bio contact for each. Built for influencer discovery and competitor audience mapping.

In short: what you give, what you get, what it costs

You give	One Instagram profile
We do	Find accounts similar to it and measure each one
You get	One row per similar account: followers, following, posts, business flag, category, bio, website, engagement rate, median recent likes and last post date, plus every field the supplier returns (source_data)
It costs	$0.007 per profile + $0.0008 per recent post + $0.001 per run. Apify also bills the supplier Actor apify/instagram-scraper that this robot runs for you, at its own price (about $2.70 per 1,000 results). An item that returns an error is never charged
It does not	Sign in to Instagram or read private accounts

A real result row is shown further down this page.

Free tier — 3 results free on every run

The free results waive this Actor's own fee; the source Actor (apify/instagram-scraper) still bills its own price for every row it returns.

The first 3 results of every run are free, on every run you ever make — not a one-off trial. One guard: the free allowance never covers more than half of a run, so the offer stays sustainable.

Compared with afanasenko/instagram-related-profiles-scraper

Read on the Store on 2026-10-23 (Instagram Related Profiles Scraper — Similar Accounts). Where it does better, this section says so.

• Data source: this Actor runs apify/instagram-scraper for you, then cleans and checks every row.
• This Actor's fee is free on the first results of every run, and a hard cost cap (maxTotalChargeUsd) limits it.
• Price: about $9.7 per 1,000 in total here ($7 for this Actor + $2.7 for apify/instagram-scraper), $10 at afanasenko/instagram-related-profiles-scraper.

Why this, not another Instagram scraper

The category leader has 508 clients and a 2.54/5 rating, driven by 12.6% failure — a private or deleted profile in your batch used to destroy the whole run. This Actor scopes each profile independently: one failure costs you nothing and nobody else's data.

5 advantages

1. One bad handle never kills your batch. A private/deleted profile returns an error for that item only; every other profile still delivers.
2. Never billed on a failed lookup. Only profiles actually delivered are charged.
3. Lookalikes for free. Set a seed username and get Instagram's own "similar accounts" for it — no second scrape, no extra engine.
4. Contact verification level, always disclosed. published (found on the page) or mx_valid (domain's mail server confirmed). Never guessed.
5. Cost cap you control. Set maxTotalChargeUsd to cap this Actor's own fee; the supplier Actor is capped separately on every call, at its own price.

Output

A real row from this Actor's latest run on Apify (2026-10-23; long texts are cut and people's names hidden here, your dataset has them in full):

{
  "status": "ok",
  "username": "(hidden here)",
  "profile_url": "https://www.instagram.com/nasa",
  "full_name": "(hidden here)",
  "followers": 104360501,
  "following": "(hidden here)",
  "posts_count": 4974,
  "is_business": true,
  "category": "Government Agencies",
  "bio": "Making the seemingly impossible, possible. ✨",
  "external_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/",
  "engagement_rate": 0.0022,
  "median_recent_likes": 227624,
  "last_post_at": "2026-10-10T15:15:02.000Z",
  "lookalikes": [
    {
      "username": "(hidden here)",
      "full_name": "(hidden here)",
      "is_verified": true
    },
    {
      "username": "(hidden here)",
      "full_name": "(hidden here)",
      "is_verified": true
    }
  ]
}

Every field

Field	What it holds
username	handle
profile_url	profile link
full_name	display name
followers	followers
following	following
posts_count	posts
is_business	business account
category	business category
bio	bio
external_url	link in bio
engagement_rate	likes and comments per follower
median_recent_likes	median likes of recent posts
last_post_at	date of the latest post
lookalikes	similar accounts Instagram suggests
source_data	every field apify/instagram-scraper returns for this row, untouched

Each row also carries source_data: the full row returned by apify/instagram-scraper, every field it gives, untouched — you never get less than the supplier itself delivers. Our own fields above stay exactly as they are. A row over 200 KB is trimmed and source_data_trimmed lists the fields cut.

Pricing

• Source Actor charge: this Actor runs apify/instagram-scraper inside your run, and Apify bills that run to your account at apify/instagram-scraper's own price (about $2.7 per 1,000 results, read on 2026-10-23), on top of this Actor's price. Each call to it is capped at $0.02. Pay per event, base FREE-tier prices: $0.007 per profile delivered, $0.0008 per recent post. Paid Store plans pay less on every event — the largest plans pay $0.0055 per profile; the Pricing tab on this Actor's Store page is always the authority. No event is ever charged on an item that returns an error — a batch of 200 with one bad input bills 199.

Use it from an AI agent (MCP and x402)

Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client to Apify's MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com and add this Actor, om_kh/instagram-profile-lookalike-scraper, as a tool — the agent passes the same JSON as the run input and gets the dataset back.

AI agents that pay with x402 can run it too, without an Apify account: the Actor charges only per result delivered, so an agent pays exactly for what it gets.

Related Actors

• Instagram Following & Related Profiles Scraper - Full List — who a profile follows, or its related suggested accounts
• YouTube Creator Lead Finder - Views, Niche, Email — cross-platform creator research on YouTube

How to use it in 3 steps

1. Click Try for free and enter one or more Instagram usernames or profile URLs.
2. To find similar accounts, put one username in seedForLookalike; raise lookalikeDepth to expand further. Turn on includeRecentPosts for likes and comments.
3. Click Start and export the profiles as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Use cases

• Find lookalike influencers for a campaign from one creator you already like.
• Competitor audience mapping — the accounts Instagram considers similar to a competitor.
• Creator vetting — followers, engagement rate, median likes and last post date in one row.
• Lead lists — business accounts with category, website and public contact.

Use it from code (API)

Every Apify Actor is an API. Start a run and read the results with one call.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("om_kh/instagram-profile-lookalike-scraper").call(run_input={"usernames": ["nasa"], "seedForLookalike": "natgeo", "lookalikeDepth": 1, "includeRecentPosts": False})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('om_kh/instagram-profile-lookalike-scraper').call({
    "usernames": [
        "nasa"
    ],
    "seedForLookalike": "natgeo",
    "lookalikeDepth": 1,
    "includeRecentPosts": false
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

One HTTP call (cURL) — runs the Actor and returns the dataset in the same response:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/om_kh~instagram-profile-lookalike-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"usernames": ["nasa"], "seedForLookalike": "natgeo", "lookalikeDepth": 1, "includeRecentPosts": false}'

Integrations: n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets

• n8n — the official Apify node, operation Run Actor and get dataset, Actor om_kh/instagram-profile-lookalike-scraper.
• Make — Apify › Run an Actor, then Apify › Get Dataset Items.
• Zapier — Apify › Run Actor; map the dataset items into your next step.
• Google Sheets, webhooks, Slack — add an integration from the Integrations tab of this Actor.
• Schedules — run it every hour or day from Schedules in Apify Console.

Example input

{
  "usernames": [
    "nasa"
  ]
}

FAQ

How are lookalike accounts found? From Instagram's own similar-accounts suggestions for the seed profile, expanded level by level with lookalikeDepth.

Do I need to log in? No. Public data only, no cookies, no account.

What metrics do I get? Followers, following, posts count, engagement rate, median recent likes, last post date, business category, bio, external URL and public contact when shown.

Am I charged for failed profiles? No. A profile that returns an error is never charged.

Is it legal? It reads public profile information only. You are responsible for how you store and use personal data (GDPR, CCPA).

All input fields

The main fields are described above; these are the others the form accepts:

• profileUrls (Profile URLs) — Full Instagram profile URLs, if you have them instead of bare usernames.
• recentPostsCount (Recent posts count) — How many recent posts to attach per profile, when enabled.

Your feedback

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More Actors from the same author

• Instagram Following & Related Profiles Scraper - Full List — who a profile follows, or Instagram's related accounts
• YouTube Creator Lead Finder - Views, Niche, Email — creators on YouTube with contact signals
• TikTok Creator Search Scraper — creators on TikTok by keyword

Support

Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab on this Actor's Apify Store page, or message the author (om_kh) directly.