# Apify Instagram Followers/Following Scraper (No Cookies)

> Apify Instagram Followers/Following Scraper (No Cookies) is a paid API for AI agents from stableapify.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Scrapes the followers or following list of specified Instagram accounts without requiring cookies, returning up to 500,000 profiles per run.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://stableapify.dev/api/actors/scraping_solutions/instagram-scraper-followers-following-no-cookies/call
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/apify-instagram-followers-following-scraper-no-cookies-9d8bd643
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uznunWuWd177_kP3lyUxM

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability apify-instagram-followers-following-scraper-no-cookies-9d8bd643 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape the followers of the Instagram account 'natgeo' — I want up to 2,000 followers returned, pulling the Followers list.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically extract Instagram follower or following lists without managing cookies or sessions yourself. It is ideal for audience research, competitive analysis, and influencer prospecting at scale. Prefer this over manual scraping or cookie-dependent scrapers when you need a pay-per-call, no-auth-setup approach with results up to 500,000 profiles.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or private Instagram account — scraper cannot access follower data for private profiles
- Results limit below minimum (25) or above maximum (500,000) causes validation error
- Instagram rate limiting or anti-bot measures may reduce results or cause partial runs
- Payment failure via x402/MPP at $0.01 USDC per call blocks execution
- Missing required fields (Account, resultsLimit, dataToScrape) returns schema validation error
- Actor run timeout for very large follower counts

## How this service works

Search Apify Store actors, start actor runs, and fetch results over x402 and MPP.

## Output

A list of Instagram user profiles (followers or following) for the specified accounts, including profile data such as usernames and associated metadata, up to the requested results limit. Results are returned as structured JSON records from the completed Apify actor run.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "Account",
    "resultsLimit",
    "dataToScrape"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "Account": {
     "type": "array",
     "items": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "description": "Add a list of Account. You can add them one per line."
    },
    "dataToScrape": {
     "enum": [
      "Followers",
      "Followings"
     ],
     "type": "string",
     "default": "Followers",
     "description": "choose between Follower and Following"
    },
    "resultsLimit": {
     "type": "integer",
     "default": 500,
     "maximum": 500000,
     "minimum": 25,
     "description": "number of Follower/Following for scraping, 50-500000 are the allowed values"
    }
   },
   "description": "Normalized actor input. See field descriptions for the simplified shape; native Apify input also accepted (passed through).",
   "additionalProperties": {}
  },
  "options": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "build": {
     "type": "string",
     "maxLength": 100,
     "minLength": 1
    },
    "memory": {
     "type": "integer",
     "maximum": 32768,
     "minimum": 128
    },
    "maxItems": {
     "type": "integer",
     "maximum": 100000,
     "minimum": 1
    }
   },
   "description": "Optional Apify run options.",
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/apify-instagram-followers-following-scraper-no-cookies-9d8bd643/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from stableapify.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/stableapify.dev/llms.txt)