Is it possible to get a full list of all followers of a 3rd party Instagram user (eg not an account i control) through the instagram website ?
I know i can click followers, but it only loads around 100 followers then you have to keep scrolling to load the rest, for a large account this could takes ages.
Is there a phrase that can be appended to the end of the instagram URL to show the followers ?
I note that if you inspect the followers number at the top of the page it shows a URL like this https://www.instagram.com/USERNAME/followers/but clicking that just loads the modal window where you get the 100 followers+ that you have to scroll through, if you try to navigate direct to the URL it redirects to https://www.instagram.com/USERNAME/ ive tried with both JS enabled and disabled.
Best Answer
Yes. So long as you are interested in the followers of Instagram accounts you know, this is possible. While a request to that URL will only return 100 followers, an automated repetition of that request along with some kind of scraping of the results modal will give you a full list of followers. One way to accomplish this automation is by using PhantomBuster's Instagram Follower Collector. It is a paid service, but their 14 day trial should suffice.
Helper Tools for Instagram is another extension that can do this for you, but the free version has a limit of 10,000 users scraped.
If you know how to run code from your terminal, you could run a script locally that makes this repeated request for you. Here's an example that uses a Python script to make the repeated request and then scrapes the results using Selenium. The instructions here are relatively straightforward.