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Instagram profile scraper: screen a creator list before outreach
Give your agent a list of Instagram handles and get back a CSV with today's followers, category, private flag, a 12-post engagement sample, and a keep or skip verdict, with any public business email verified before you write to it. 3 steps, each a metered call through 鹦鹉AI, with the price printed before the agent spends it.
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Try it
One prompt runs the whole thing
Set your agent up, once
set up data capabilities — https://parrot.amorist.cn/llms.txt
Then ask for it
Using 鹦鹉AI, screen these 20 Instagram creators for partnership fit: [list of handles]. For each one pull the profile (followers, category, is_private, business_email) and the last 12 posts. Show me the price before each step. If a business email is public, verify it. Give me a CSV with handle, followers, private, posts_sampled, avg_engagement_pct and a keep or skip column: keep if over 10k followers, public, posting, and engagement above 1%.
List the handles upfront
The agent runs one profile call and one posts call per handle. One batch beats twenty prompts.
Ask for the price before each step
Both TikHub routes bill per success at the rate in the table; the verify step is the one that costs, and only fires when an email exists.
Define your keep criteria
Follower floor, public account, recent posts, engagement floor. The agent filters; you set the rules.
Request a CSV
Structured output you can sort before spending time on outreach.
The steps
What 鹦鹉 AI calls, and what each call costs
Prices come from the catalog's own rate book, read when this page loads, on one prepaid balance.
| # | Step | What the agent asks | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pull the profileThe cheapest profile route in the catalog. Returns the numeric user id the posts step needs. | followers, category, private flag and public business email, by handle | 0.7 credits/success |
| 2 | Sample recent postsEngagement is likes plus comments over followers, averaged across the sample. Private accounts skip this step. | the last 12 posts with likes and comments, by numeric user id | 0.7 credits/success |
| 3 | Verify the business emailFires only for handles whose profile exposes an email, so the worst case in the total above rarely happens. | is the public business email deliverable, before outreach | 8.58 credits/call |
At the rates above, 20 rows where every call hits comes to 199.60 credits. The receipt below is what it actually cost.
The receipt
What it actually cost, in credits
Run on 2026-09-14, 20 creators in.
- Creators screened
- 20 handles from the creator-discovery run on this site
- Profiles retrieved
- 18 of 20 resolved; one call did not answer, one handle returned no user
- Posts sampled
- 17 post calls answered, 14 accounts had posts to count; median engagement 5.3%
- Emails verified
- 0: no profile exposed a public business email, so the verify step did not fire
- Total metered
- 25.20 credits: 19 profile calls and 17 post calls at 0.70 credits each
Thirty-six successful calls at the two TikHub rates, billed per success. Fourteen of the twenty made the keep list. None of these creators exposes a business email in the profile, which is common: the email step is there for the lists where they do, and it is the only step with a real price. One profile call did not answer and was not billed; the retry policy is one line in the prompt. Handles are removed from the published CSV because they identify real people; your own run returns them.
Questions
Before you start
What does a 20-creator screen cost?
The receipt above is one real run. Profiles and posts are the cheap steps; only the email verify step, when it fires, costs more.
What if the account is private?
The profile call still returns followers, category and the private flag. Posts and engagement are unavailable.
Can I screen TikTok creators the same way?
Yes. TikHub has TikTok profile and post routes at the same price; change the handles and the platform in the prompt.
How is engagement calculated?
Likes plus comments on the sampled posts, divided by followers, averaged over the sample. Above 3% is generally good; this list's median was 5.3%.
Will this get my Instagram account banned?
This workflow screens public profile and post fields through a metered catalog route. It is not a follow, unfollow, or DM bot. Do not paste your own Instagram session into a scraper.
What if engagement looks high but the audience is fake?
Treat engagement as a filter, not a guarantee. Look at comment quality and sudden follower spikes before you pay for a placement.