Instagram Followers Scraper

Instagram

Operated by Sourcelane✓ verified

Exports follower and following lists from public Instagram profiles by fetching paginated user lists; supports fetching followers, following, or both in a single run and returns a pagination cursor to continue fetching subsequent pages. Each run retrieves up to 500 users (one page per run), de-duplicates users by ID within the run, and outputs structured user records containing user identifiers, usernames and display names, privacy and verification status, and profile picture URLs for downstream analysis.

Verified Sep 28, 12:10 AM

$0.00018

per follower

Up to 100 per call. Only pay for results returned; failed calls are refunded.

What people use it for

Influencer analysis — audit who follows a creator and examine audience composition
Competitor research — identify who follows competing brands
Lead generation — find and export accounts following a target profile
Audience research — analyze follower demographics and engagement signals
Following audits — inspect who an account is following for partnership or outreach research

Trust & reliability

7d uptime trend

Window	Uptime	Success rate	p50	p95
24h	—	—	—	—
7d	—	—	—	—
30d	—	—	—	—

Calling contract

Call it through Sourcelane's gateway or MCP server. We run the connector, apply your agent's spend guardrails, and bill only the results returned.

Call it via Sourcelane

curl -X POST https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"instagram-followers-scraper","params":{"username":"natgeo","maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Request params

Field	Type	Required	Description
`username`	string	required	Instagram username to scrape (with or without @).
`mode`	string	optional	Whether to fetch followers, following, or both.
`pageId`	string	optional	Pagination cursor from a previous run. Pass the cursor_next value the output to fetch the next page. Leave blank to start from the beginning.
`maxItems`	integer	optional	Maximum number of users to collect per mode in this run. Instagram serves ~25 users per page and the connector auto-paginates until it reaches this number. Billing is per 50 users actually delivered. Set to 0 for unlimited. Capped at 100 per call.

Each result contains

Field	Type	Description
`cursor_next`	string	—
`results`	array	—

Use Instagram Followers Scraper from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Pick your tool and connect in under a minute. Then just ask — for example: “Pull the last 20 posts from @natgeo and tell me which formats get the most engagement.”

Connect Claude

Web, desktop and mobile. Paste one URL.

1Copy your personal connector URL
2In Claude open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
3Paste the URL and click Add — done

Manual setup (config files, REST, Python) +

Claude Code

Adds the Sourcelane MCP server with your key as a header.

terminal

claude mcp add --transport http sourcelane https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"

Claude Desktop (config file)

Alternative to the connector URL: add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude.

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor & Windsurf

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Windsurf's mcp_config.json).

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "url": "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Save as .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code prompts for your key once.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:sourcelane-key}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sourcelane-key",
      "description": "Sourcelane agent key",
      "password": true
    }
  ]
}

ChatGPT Custom GPT (Actions)

Create a GPT → Actions → Import from URL, then Authentication: API Key, Bearer.

OpenAPI schema URL

https://sourcelane-amber.vercel.app/openapi.json

REST

One POST. Pass maxResults to cap cost.

curl

curl -X POST https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"instagram-followers-scraper","params":{"username":"natgeo","maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Python, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK…

Wrap the REST call as a tool, or point an MCP client at the endpoint.

python

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"},
    json={
        "listing": "instagram-followers-scraper",
        "params": {"username":"natgeo","maxItems":5},
        "maxResults": 10,
    },
    timeout=300,
)
body = res.json()
print(body["receipt"]["chargedMicros"], "micro-USD for", body["receipt"]["results"], "results")
print(body["data"])

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