How to Scrape IG followers
Purpose
To extract Instagram profile data for marketing and growth hacking and build custom scrapers to extract data from any website
Procedure
Scrape Instagram followers/following
Open Burdeen Chrome extension
Find "Save Instagram following and followers to Google Sheets" automation
Enter number of profiles to extract
Select create new Google Sheet or add to existing sheet
Run automation
Sheet will contain profile data like name, handle, image
Scrape Instagram profile to Sheets
Open Instagram profile page
Open Burdeen Chrome extension
Find "Save Instagram profile to Google Sheets" automation
Select Google Sheet to add data to
Run automation
Profile data like followers, following, description will be added to sheet
Customize scraper template
Open Burdeen and create new playbook (automation)
Add "Scrape Data on Active Tab" action
Create new Single Page Scraper template
Select elements on page to extract like name, handle, followers
Add "Add Table Rows to Google Sheet" action
Map extracted data to spreadsheet columns
Save scraper template
Run automation to test
Create right-click automation
Open existing automation in Burdeen builder
Add Right Click on Website trigger
Name right-click menu option
Enable playbook
Right click on site to run automation
Product
Burdeen Chrome extension for automating workflows, pre-built automations for Instagram and Google Sheets, visual scraper builder to extract data from any site, connectors to apps like Notion, Airtable, Slack
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