Instagram Hashtag Search Export

Here's a tutorial to help you set up the Instagram Hashtag Search Export Phantom:

How to Use the Instagram Auto Follow

PhantomBuster’s Instagram Auto Follow Automation lets you follow, unfollow, block, or unblock Instagram profiles from a small custom list. This quick tutorial covers account connection, input setup, launch settings, and where to find your results.

• Required inputs: A connected Instagram session (via the browser extension or a manual cookie) and valid Instagram profile URLs. Spreadsheets must be shared with "Anyone with the link."

• Safety limits: Instagram is strict on automation. Process no more than 1 profile per hour and do not exceed 200 follow actions per day across all launches.

• Usage scope: This Phantom is intended for small, custom lists. For higher-volume actions on another profile’s followers, use the Instagram Followers Auto Follow Phantom.

• Operational costs: This Phantom uses 1 slot, and execution time is approximately 35 seconds per profile.

• Free plan limitations: CSV uploads are not supported. Results are limited to the first 10 rows in CSV exports, and JSON exports or dynamic CSV download links are unavailable.

1. Connect your Instagram account: Install the PhantomBuster browser extension and connect your Instagram session in one click. If you’re not using Chrome or Firefox, retrieve your Instagram session cookie manually and add it as the account connection.

2. Provide the Instagram profiles: Choose one input method: paste a single Instagram profile URL, provide a publicly shared Google Sheet link, or upload a publicly accessible CSV (paid plans only).

   When using spreadsheets, the Phantom reads column A by default. Enter a different column header name in your setup to target a specific column.

3. Choose the action and configure processing: Select one action: Follow, Unfollow, Unfollow only if they don’t follow you back, Block, or Unblock. Set the delay between profiles, the number of profiles per launch, and optionally enable "Exclude private profiles" to skip accounts requiring manual approval.

   The maximum is 5 profiles per launch (default is 1). For safer runs, increase the delay between profiles (default 2 seconds). If you want to follow and later unfollow the same list, duplicate the Phantom and run a separate configuration.

4. Configure result file settings (optional): Set a custom results file name or list specific comma-separated fields to keep in a secondary filtered CSV.

   Renaming the results file between launches creates a brand-new file and restarts processing from the beginning of your list.

5. Select launch frequency: Choose whether to run the Phantom manually, once at a specific time, on a recurring schedule, after another Phantom, or with advanced scheduling rules.

6. Adjust advanced settings (optional): Leave the defaults unless instructed otherwise. Fine-tune execution limits, retries, email notifications, proxies, webhooks, and file management if needed.

7. Launch and access results: Click Launch. After completion, open the Results tab to view your collected data and download it as a CSV or JSON file.

For full setup details and troubleshooting guidance, see the tutorial on the help center.

You have two options:

1. Process a single hashtag
Type the hashtag into your Phantom's setup, beginning with a #, e.g. #cat.

2. Process multiple hashtags
Create a spreadsheet with Google Sheets. List the hashtags in your spreadsheet - one per row, all in column A.

Make this spreadsheet public so PhantomBuster can access it.

Copy the spreadsheet URL and paste it into your Phantom's setup.

Tell the Phantom how many posts you'd like to extract for each hashtag or location. Instagram allows you to extract a maximum of 5000-9000 posts in one go.

Take note: Because of Instagram's hashtag search algorithm, this Phantom will not be able to pick up from where it left off in the middle of a hashtag search between launches, so you should extract up to 5-9k posts of for one hashtag all in one launch to get as many as possible.

By default, this Phantom will only extract the profile URL of the post owner for first few posts.

If you'd like to extract the profile URL of the poster behind every post you extract, you can check the "Extract the post owner's profile URL and other post data for each post" box in the Phantom's setup. However, to keep your account safe, you should only use this option if extracting a small number of posts.

If extracting hundreds or thousands, you should instead chain the results of this Phantom to the Instagram Post Data Extractor Phantom. This will scrape each of the posts you've extracted for all their available data, including the post owner's profile URL, but will do so at a more moderate pace which will be safer for your account.