How to Scrape Emails from Instagram (2026) — 5 Methods

Scraping emails from Instagram can be a fast way of building targeted lists of leads for outreach - if you do it responsibly.

Here's the reality: most Instagram users don't publish an email publicly, and Instagram actively discourages "unauthorized" data collection - Instagram can restrict accounts if it detects scraping behavior on its platform.

So the best course of action is a simple one:

• Only gather publicly available contact information (and particularly business emails).
• Avoid anything which goes around access controls (private accounts/posts).
• Prioritize list quality (verification + deduplication) so that you don't burn your sender reputation.

This guide introduces you to how you can extract public emails from Instagram using techniques that are suitable for an actual marketing workflow: followers, hashtags, post likers, post commenters, and keyword discovery. (No coding required.)

What Does "Scraping Emails from Instagram" Mean?

When people are looking for "how to scrape emails from Instagram," they generally are referring to one of these:

Finding Emails that Are Purposefully Published by Creators/Businesses

• Public bio text (e.g. booking: [email protected])
• Business contact fields (where they can be seen)
• Linked websites that include contact info

Turning an Instagram Audience into a Clean Outreach List

• A competitor's followers
• People posting with niche hashtags
• People engaging on relevant posts (likes/comments)

Exporting the results into some format you can use

• CSV/Excel for Outreach Tools, CRMs, Enrichment, Segmentation

A good tool should not make the pretense of being able to magically extract emails from everyone. The best tools only capture that which is already public, then verify + dedupe before export.

For example, Scravio puts its Instagram Email Extractor in the cloud-based category, which can extract publicly available emails from multiple sources (followers/following, hashtags, post likers/commenters, keyword), with email verification and deduplication.

Can You Safely Scrape Emails From Instagram?

"Safe" has two parts:

Risk of the platform (Instagram restrictions)

Instagram clearly states that data scraping could violate their Terms of Use and could result in restrictions.

So avoid:

• private profiles/posts
• bypassing gates/authentication
• "workarounds" that are aimed at bypassing platform defenses

Risk of outreach (spam + compliance)

Even if an email isn't private, sending out careless cold email in bulk is how you:

• destroy deliverability
• get flagged as spam
• create legal/compliance exposure based on country/region

This guide is not legal advice. But as a practical rule:

• Keep targeting tight
• Personalize
• Provide an opt-out
• Don't send email to people who obviously aren't a fit

Where Instagram Emails Are Coming From (Public Signals)

Public emails are popular in:

• Bio text (with particular focus on creators, agencies, local services)
• Business contact fields (if visible)
• Linked websites (Public Landing pages, Portfolio sites)

That's why match rate is so different from one niche to another. Restaurants, salons, agencies, freelancers, "booking/inquiries" creators often publish contact info because they want clients.

The 5 Best Ways To Scrape Instagram Emails

Different sources make different quality of lead. Here's how to choose.

Method 1: Scraping Emails from Instagram Followers (Audience based targeting)

Use this when you want to be reaching a known audience:

• competitor followers
• niche influencer followers
• community page followers

With Scravio's Followers flow, the process is:

1. Provide a target username as your "seed" account
2. Set up expected results (Scravio recommends starting with 200-500 profiles so that you can validate the quality of your results before scaling it up)
3. Run campaign in the cloud and export to CSV/Excel

Scravio, in addition, highlights the fact that it runs without Instagram login, in the cloud, complete with verification + deduplication.

Pro tips for better results

• Choose a seed account with followers that are a close match to your ICP (ideal customer profile)
• Do not use celebrity or meme accounts (huge volume, low density of business emails)
• Focus on niches that are natural email publishers (agencies, restaurants/cafes, salons/spas, e-commerce brands, freelancers, B2B founders)

Method 2: Scraping Emails from Hashtags (Intent-based discovery)

Hashtags are best for you when you want topic + intent discovery:

• #weddingphotographer - vendors with the intention to book
• #bangkokcafe - local businesses
• #seoagency - service providers
• #tattoostudio - local leads

Hashtag is designed by Scravio as follows:

• one hashtag for each campaign (Clean targeting and segmentation)
• cloud-based, no login, verification + deduplication included

Importantly, Scravio notes it's not scraping posts directly, it's finding users who posted under the hashtag, then gathering public email signals from profiles.

Pro tips for better rate of email match

• Use "commercial" hashtags: preferred words are service + location + booking intent
• Examples: "wedding photographer + city", "dentist + city", "gym + district"
• Conduct several micro-campaigns rather than one giant campaign (better segmentation)

Method 3: Scraping Emails from Post Likers (Warm interest signals)

Likers are useful when you want to obtain people who showed interest in a topic or offer.

Scravio's Likers flow is:

1. Paste a public URL of an Instagram post (photos, reels, carousels)
2. Scravio scans likers and extracts public emails
3. Cleans, Deduplicates, Verifies and Exports to CSV/Excel

Scravio clearly states:

• It works with public posts only
• private/restricted posts, which cannot be scanned

Best use cases

• competitor promo posts (people already interested in similar offers)
• niche content posts (target engaged users in your industry)

Method 4: Scrape Emails of Post Commenters (Highest intent engagement)

Commenters are often the best audience as they did something more than just 'like:' asking questions, asking for recommendations, comparing options.

Scravio describes the process of the Commenters as:

1. Paste a public post URL
2. Scravio gathers commenters and looks for publicly-available emails
3. Export includes username and display name, as well as profile URL and email (if public) and website and bio text
4. Output is deduped and emails are validated before export

Scravio also refers to commenters as "the highest-intent audience on a post" and stresses the most important limitation: private or restricted posts cannot be scanned.

What posts get the best comments

• "Need recommendations?" posts
• product comparison posts
• posts with specific questions on niche tips

Method 5: Keyword Discovery (Identify profiles and then extract public email)

Keyword discovery is perfect if you don't even have a seed account or a post URL.

On Scravio's Instagram Email Extractor page, "Keyword" is explained as:

• search a keyword for public profiles based on the keyword and extract the public emails

Good keyword patterns:

• Role + niche - "founder skincare", "agency owner", "wedding planner"
• Service + geo. "dentist bangkok", "gym phuket", "cafe chiang mai"
• Intent terms: Booking, inquiries, collab, partnership

A Simple Workflow That Actually Works (Without Wasting Credits)

If you want a repeatable system, this has to be done:

Step 1: Select one primary source (start small)

• Followers OR Hashtag OR Post Likers/commenters
• Scravio's own workflow for followers recommends starting with 200-500 profiles in order to validate that they have a quality profile to scale on.

Step 2: Establish an "expected results" cap

• Scravio supports campaign controls: You can set how many profiles to process and the campaign stops at that number of profiles.

Step 3: Export and Clean (Don't Skip This)

A usable list is:

• deduplicated
• validated (lower bounce)
• structured for segmentation

Scravio highlights:

• built-in deduplication
• email verification included
• export to CSV/Excel with large number of fields (username, bio, website, counts, timestamps, etc.)

The tips on how to improve your Instagram email match rate

If you scrape 1000 profiles, and you only obtain 30-80 emails, that may be normal - since many profiles just don't have emails that they publish publicly.

Here's what makes a difference in match rate every time:

Choose "email-forward" niches

Industries in which email is a part of doing business:

• agencies, freelancers, services in the region
• restaurants/cafes, salons/spas
• e-commerce brands
• creators who do partnerships/booking

Employ bio filtering following export

Scravio suggests filtering bios on:

• roles: founder, owner, CEO
• intent - booking, inquiries, collab, partnership
• location keywords

Layer methods

Begin with one method then add on another:

• Followers + Hashtags
• Likers + Commenters
• Hashtags + Commenters "topic + intent" precision

Making Turning Exports Into a Campaign Ready List

A raw export is not a campaign--segmentation is a campaign.

Create simple segments like:

• High intent - commenters, "inquiries/booking" bios, service keywords
• Warm - Likers of competitor's promos
• Broad - followers of relevant niche seeds
• Local - location hashtags + keywords of city

Add basic hygiene rules:

• remove "info@", if you do not need personal contacts (depends on offer)
• maintain a suppression list (don't e-mail the same lead twice)
• track source (followers vs hashtag vs likers) to learn what converts

Outreach Best Practices (So that You Don't Burn Your Domain)

Even with public emails, it is more important to be of high outreach quality rather than to scrape volume.

Practical rules

• Start with small batches (20-50/day), gradually increase
• Utilize real reply-to and plain text style
• Personalize the first line (why them)
• Include an opt-out sentence
• Don't misrepresent your method of finding them

When to email vs DM

• Email: B2B services, partnerships, booking
• DM: creators that prefer IG collaborations
• Contact form: local businesses that say that is the preferred channel

FAQs

Is it legal to scrape emails from Instagram?

Laws differ from country to country and situation to situation. The safest approach is gathering information from businesses that is publicly available and using it responsibly for legitimate outreach.

Can Instagram ban for scraping?

Instagram says scraping data can go against its terms for accessing/collecting information in unauthorized ways, and restrictions can happen.

Why don't I get emails for all profiles?

Because a lot of people don't publish an email publicly. Tools can only extract what is really visible.

Can I Scrape the Emails of Private Profiles or Private Posts?

No - private or restricted content is not intended to be accessed and reputable tools state that they only use public sources.

What's the quickest way to get high intent leads?

Commenters are often highest intent because they actively engage and write, not just like.

Final Takeaway + Next Step

If you are looking for consistent results from Instagram email scraping, pay attention to three things:

• Targeting (seed accounts, hashtags, posts that are matched to your ICP)
• Extraction for public only (no private content, no bypassing)
• List quality (verification + dedupe + segmentation)

Scravio's Instagram Email Extractor supports multiple sources (followers/following, hashtags, post likers/commenters, keyword) running in the cloud, supports verification/deduplication with export to CSV/Excel.

Or you can start with 25 free credits (no credit card required).