most efficient way to scrape usernames on Instagram from either followers or comments?

Is there a tool out there that will allow for me to scrape any amount of usernames i want (currently need 36k per day) comments are obviously most efficient but if only scrape from followers is allowed i suppose that works also. thank you for any help in advance!

Make it with python/node, or hire someone to do it for you. Use chatgpt if it helps.

Basically, take a list of seed pages and crawl every linked page that looks like a profile url. Use a random proxy from a pool and multi threading (can be a little painful to implement together) if you want to do it efficiently.

Use golang or rustlang or something like c++ if you wanna make the bot even more efficient.


Also, come out of this mentality that you need a readymade tool to do something in im. If you don’t build it yourself, someone else will do it and sell it to others. You will lose your method.

Welcome to bhw by the way.

I would check something like rapidapi for a ig scraping API you could tap into and get a python scraper going