How to Use the Instagram Scraper (Step by Step)
Instagram is where countless brands, creators, and local businesses live, but its data is locked inside an endless scroll. The free Instagram Scraper lets you turn public profiles, followers, and engaged audiences into a structured list of names, bios, and contact details you can actually use for outreach.
This guide covers the complete workflow, from installing the free Chrome extension to choosing what to scrape, extracting public contact data, reviewing it, and launching personalized campaigns. Finding and extracting leads with LeadStal is free, and sending AI-personalized emails starts at $9.99 per month.
Step by step
Install the free Instagram Scraper extension
Add the free Instagram Scraper to Chrome from the install page and pin it to your toolbar. It activates only when you are on Instagram, so it never gets in the way of normal browsing.
Open Instagram and find your source
Log into Instagram in the same browser and navigate to the profile, follower list, or audience you want to mine. Decide whether you are targeting a competitor's followers, a niche creator's audience, or a list of business accounts.
Open the source page you want to scrape
Go to the exact page that holds your target audience, such as a profile's follower list or an engaged set of accounts. Let the list load so the extension has the full set of profiles to read.
Click the extension to extract profiles
Open the Instagram Scraper and start extraction. It walks the visible accounts and captures public fields such as usernames, display names, bios, external links, and any email or phone shown in the public contact info.
Review the extracted emails and phones
Look through the captured rows for public emails, phone numbers, websites, and bios. Remove accounts that do not fit your niche so your list stays focused on people worth contacting.
Export to CSV or push to LeadStal
Download the cleaned leads as a CSV for your existing tools, or send them straight into LeadStal so the list is ready for outreach without any manual import.
Launch AI-personalized outreach
In LeadStal, draft your pitch and let the AI tailor each message to the account's niche and bio before it sends. Extraction is free, and sending starts at $9.99 per month.
Pro tips
- Scroll the follower or audience list fully before extracting so the page loads as many profiles as possible into view.
- Target audiences of creators and brands close to your niche so the contacts you pull are genuinely relevant.
- Prioritize business and creator accounts, since they are the ones most likely to list a public email or website.
- Keep your batches modest and scrape steadily so your browsing stays natural and your lists stay clean.
Questions, answered
Is the Instagram Scraper free?
Yes. Finding and extracting public Instagram data with LeadStal is free. You only pay when you want to send AI-personalized outreach, which starts at $9.99 per month.
What information can it extract from Instagram?
It captures public profile fields such as usernames, display names, bios, external links, and any email or phone listed in a public business profile's contact info.
Do I need to be logged in to Instagram?
Yes. You should be logged into your own Instagram account in the browser so you can view the profiles and audiences you want to extract.
Can I scrape a competitor's followers?
You can extract publicly visible accounts and their public contact details. This is a popular way to build a relevant audience that already shows interest in your niche.
How do I turn these accounts into outreach?
Export the leads as a CSV or push them into LeadStal, where you can launch AI-personalized email campaigns to the contacts that listed a public email.