How to Scrape and Extract Instagram Profile Info with Airtop Studio

Keeping track of Instagram profile data manually presents significant challenges. Collecting follower counts, bio updates, publication details, hashtags, and interactions like comments and likes can quickly become overwhelming and error-prone. Social media analysts, marketing strategists, and researchers often struggle with manual data entry, API rate limits, and frequent changes to Instagram’s structure which make consistent manual scraping complex and unreliable.

Airtop Studio solves these exact pain points by automating the extraction of detailed Instagram profile information. Leveraging Airtop's powerful automation capabilities combined with real browser sessions, this automation provides authenticated access even through Instagram's security layers, including 2FA, OAuth, and Captcha protections. With structured JSON outputs, users gain clean, organized profile details—such as follower counts, biographies, posts, reels, stories, hashtags, and mentions—ideal for in-depth social media analysis.

Built to seamlessly navigate Instagram’s dynamic platform, Airtop Studio ensures scalability. Whether monitoring multiple profiles or performing daily social media analytics, you receive reliable, comprehensive, and structured data without manual intervention or API limitations. This empowers marketers, analysts, and researchers with accurate insights needed for informed strategic decisions.

Who is this Automation for?

• Social media analysts tracking influencers and competitor profiles

• Marketing teams measuring campaign effectiveness on Instagram

• Researchers needing structured Instagram data for market studies

• Developers automating content extraction workflows

Key Benefits

• Real browser sessions for accurate scraping

• Authenticated login support (OAuth, 2FA, Captcha)

• Structured JSON output for easy data analysis

• No coding required, instantly deployable via Airtop Studio

Use Cases

• Regularly track Instagram profile growth metrics

• Benchmark competitor engagement rates, likes, and comments

• Analyze influencer posting habits, hashtags, and trends

• Monitor bio and follower count changes for market research

• Extract data for sentiment analysis and brand monitoring

• Automate data feed from Instagram profiles for analytics dashboards

Getting Started with the Extract Instagram Profile Info Automation

Set up your Instagram data extraction automation quickly and easily with these simple steps.

How the Extract Instagram Profile Info Automation Works

This Airtop automation accesses Instagram securely using an authenticated profile in a real browser session, providing safe, reliable data extraction. It navigates to specified Instagram profiles and retrieves structured data including user bio, follower counts, posts, and interactions such as likes, comments, mentions, reels, and stories, compiling this comprehensive information into a clear JSON output suitable for analytics and reporting.

What You’ll Need

• A free Airtop account

• An Airtop Profile authenticated to Instagram (https://portal.airtop.ai/browser-profiles)

Setting Up the Automation

1. Click "Try Automation"

2. Under Advanced Settings, enter your Airtop Profile authenticated to Instagram

3. In Airtop Studio, click "Start Session"

4. Click "Run"

5. Optionally get Python or TypeScript code or add this automation to Make or n8n by clicking "Get Code" or copying JSON schema and prompt

Customize the Automation

Tailor the Airtop Instagram automation easily to match your specific analytics goals:

• Extract only specific post types—such as reels, photos, or stories—to streamline datasets

• Set limits or date ranges for post extraction to capture only relevant periods

• Customize outputs to track specific metrics like follower growth, hashtag trends, or engagement ratios

• Automate extraction frequency to daily, weekly, or custom intervals to match your reporting needs

Automation Best Practices

• Regularly update your authenticated Airtop Profile login details for uninterrupted extraction

• Specify targeted profiles clearly to optimize automation performance and runtime

• Periodically validate extracted data to adjust and optimize settings

• Use Airtop’s structured JSON output directly in reporting and analysis dashboards to automate analytics workflows

Try this Automation

Effortlessly scale and automate your Instagram analytics with detailed, structured data extraction.

Extract Instagram Profile Info with Airtop Studio.

Need help customizing this automation? Book a Demo today!