Is it possible to scrape phone numbers from instagram profiles? These profiles don't have the phone number in their instagram bio.

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i think if the number isnt public on profile you generally cant scrape it those tools claiming otherwise are mostly unreliable
 
Orion Marketing Agency said:
i think if the number isnt public on profile you generally cant scrape it those tools claiming otherwise are mostly unreliable
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Yeah that makes sense. I saw some here saying that homemade tools work but dunno if that goes for profiles that don't have phone numbers public
 
you cant scrape anything thats not publically available. for any scraper to work the user has to have shared the info publically. if the phone number is in the contact section you can scrape it.
 
Not unless the profiles actively put that data in their bio.
 
Not really if the number isn’t publicly exposed somewhere. You might be able to pull numbers from business contact buttons or linked websites, but if it’s hidden/private Instagram isn’t just giving you that data to scrape.
 
That was never possible since the start, Unless they have a website in the bio which has a phone number, but that has to be done via a Web Scraper, And its not IG Scraping end of day so.
 
blackhat12910 said:
Do any such tools exist? Found some but they don't work
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Actually I think I had seen such tools on some blackhat/hacking forums I think. And I think it was stemming from the the large data breaches that had happend on IG/Meta over the years. I suppose the biggest one was somewhat ~300 million users or something?
So if they have access to that data, and scrape the followers of some account, match the IDs, then you have a way, for getting the emails that way, though of not all the users/followers but atleast a portion of them.
 
If it's not a business account with the contact button turned on, the number isn't in any public data inst serves, not even the web profile data. Services that promise it mostly have old leaked databases, which unreliable and also create GDPR compliance issues. For business accounts, the contact info is public, so that part you can collect.
 
duke1921 said:
Actually I think I had seen such tools on some blackhat/hacking forums I think. And I think it was stemming from the the large data breaches that had happend on IG/Meta over the years. I suppose the biggest one was somewhat ~300 million users or something?
So if they have access to that data, and scrape the followers of some account, match the IDs, then you have a way, for getting the emails that way, though of not all the users/followers but atleast a portion of them.
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Legal issues though with this so I would not do this.
 
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