How to Use the Instagram Following Scraper (Step by Step)
The Instagram Following Scraper collects the accounts that a chosen profile follows and turns that following list into a clean, contact-ready set of leads. The accounts someone follows reveal the brands, partners, and creators they care about, which makes the following list a sharp signal for partnership outreach, competitor research, and niche prospecting.
The free Chrome extension reads the following list for you and pairs each account with the public contact details it can find, including emails and phone numbers. Finding and extracting is free, and when you want to act on the list you can send AI-personalized emails from LeadStal starting at $9.99 per month. Here is the full workflow.
Step by step
Install the free LeadStal extension
Add the Instagram Following Scraper to Chrome from the install page. It is free, installs in about a minute, and pins to your toolbar for one-click access. No card is required to find and extract leads.
Open the profile whose following list you want
Sign in to Instagram in the same browser and visit the profile whose interests you want to map. Click the Following count to open the list of accounts that profile follows so they begin loading on screen.
Start scraping the following list
Click the LeadStal icon and press Start. The extension reads the following list, capturing each account name, handle, and profile link. Set a target count so it stops once you have gathered enough accounts for your research or campaign.
Let it enrich accounts with emails and phones
While it runs, the scraper checks the public details on each followed account and pulls business emails, phone numbers, website links, and bios where they are public. This step converts a name on a following list into a contact you can actually reach.
Review and segment the extracted accounts
After the run, look through the results and group them. The following list often mixes creators, brands, and peers, so tag them by type, drop accounts with no contact details, and keep the ones that fit your partnership or sales goal.
Export to CSV or push to LeadStal
Save the segmented list as a CSV for your own tools, or send it directly into LeadStal so the accounts are queued and ready for outreach with no manual transfer.
Launch AI-personalized outreach
In LeadStal, describe your offer and let the AI craft a tailored email for each account based on its niche and bio. Sending starts at $9.99 per month, so a following list becomes a set of personalized messages in minutes.
Pro tips
- The accounts a person follows often reveal their interests better than their own posts, so use the following list to find shared ground for your pitch.
- Scrape the following list of an industry leader to surface the brands and partners worth approaching for collaborations.
- Filter for accounts that themselves run a business, since those profiles are far more likely to expose a public email or phone.
- Combine a following scrape with a follower scrape of the same person to see both who they engage with and who engages with them.
Questions, answered
What does the Following Scraper actually collect?
It collects the list of accounts that a chosen profile follows, along with each account's public contact details where available. It maps outward connections rather than inbound followers.
Why scrape a following list instead of a follower list?
A following list shows who a person chooses to keep up with, which is a strong signal of their interests and partners. It is ideal for partnership outreach, competitor mapping, and finding tightly related niche accounts.
Is the Following Scraper free to use?
Yes. Reading a following list and extracting public emails and phones is free. You only pay if you send AI-personalized outreach through LeadStal, which starts at $9.99 per month.
Can I scrape the following list of a private account?
Only if your logged-in session is approved to view that account. For public profiles the following list is open, so the tool reads exactly what you can already see.
How is this different from the Follower Scraper?
The Following Scraper pulls accounts a profile follows, so it points outward. The Follower Scraper pulls people who follow a profile, so it points inward. Use following for research and partnerships, followers for audience outreach.