Instagram Follower Collector

This automation will act on your behalf on Instagram. The safest and most efficient way for the Phantom to connect to your account is by using your session cookie, which you can retrieve using PhantomBuster's browser extension. It's a simple 2-click installation:

• Get it for Chrome

• Get it for Firefox

If you're operating from another browser, you can find your cookie manually.

Note:

Every time you log into Instagram, a new cookie is created for that "session," so you must be logged in (and stay logged in) on your browser to provide a working cookie.

You have two options:

1. Process a single profile
Copy the Instagram profile URL and paste it into your Phantom's setup.

2. Process multiple profiles
Create a spreadsheet with Google Sheets. Copy the Instagram profile URLs and paste them into your spreadsheet - one URL 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.

Checking the "Watcher mode" option means that the Phantom will reprocess your profile URL each time it launches and extract any new followers that have appeared since its last launch, adding these to your already-extracted followers.

This feature is especially useful if you are working with profiles where Instagram only displays the latest 50 followers (a platform limitation). In these cases, the Phantom retrieves all 50 visible followers at launch, and Watcher mode allows you to gradually capture new followers as they appear.

Take note: This setting will only work when using a single profile URL as input.

Tell the Phantom how many followers you'd like to extract from each profile.

Instagram allows you to extract a maximum of 5000-9000 followers every 15 minutes. However, some profiles only display 50 followers on the web version of Instagram. When this happens, the Phantom retrieves all 50 available, but no more.

This is an Instagram platform limitation, not a Phantom issue. To build a complete list over time, enable Watcher mode (see above) so the Phantom reprocesses the same profile on each launch and collects new followers as they appear.

If the Phantom does not scrape all of the followers of one profile during a launch, you can launch the Phantom again after 15 minutes. It will pick up where it left off and extract the next batch of followers (unless the profile itself is restricted to showing 50).

Note:

This Phantom will only be able to pick up from where it left off in the middle of a follower list within the first 6 hours of processing a profile. After this, when it launches it will start from the beginning of the follower list again.

Automation always produces better results in the long run. Set the Phantom to launch repeatedly and get results while you're away!

This Phantom runs from the cloud, which means you don't even need to have your browser open or computer on for these launches to happen.

For more automatic launch options, click on the three little dots in the top right and "Show advanced settings."

Instagram imposes a limitation for some profiles where only up to 50 followers are visible on the web version. In these cases, the Phantom will retrieve all available followers at launch, but it cannot bypass Instagram’s restriction.

To capture new followers over time, enable Watcher mode in your setup.