Download your Instagram followers list as CSV

How it works

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   Request the export from Accounts Centre

   In the Instagram app go to your profile → menu (☰) → Settings and privacy → Accounts Centre → Your information and permissions → Export your information → Create export. Select only Followers and following, date range All time, format JSON, and Download to device.

2. 2

   Download the ZIP within 4 days

   A followers-only export usually takes 10–20 minutes to prepare. Instagram emails you a download link that expires after 4 days; save the ZIP to your phone or computer.

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   Upload the ZIP or the JSON files

   Drop the whole ZIP on this page, or drag in followers_1.json and following.json on their own if you have already unzipped it. Everything is read in your browser. The results step includes free CSV buttons for your followers and following lists.

Why there's no download button in Instagram

Your followers list in the app is a scrolling screen with a search box — no export, no dates, no select-all. Instagram keeps it that way partly to make scraping harder and partly because it has no interest in helping you take your audience elsewhere. The list does exist in downloadable form, in the data export Instagram is required to give you on request; it just arrives as JSON rather than a spreadsheet. The scrapers and browser extensions offering a one-click download get the list through your own session or your password, which is the route that ends in an action block — the safety guide explains the difference.

The free followers CSV

Request the export with Followers and following and JSON — the steps are in the how-to above — then drop the ZIP on this page. The results step shows your follower count and a Your followers list (N) — CSV button. The download is followers.csv with Username, Profile URL and Date They Followed You columns, every follower included, built in your browser. No sign-up, no payment, no cap. The underlying file is followers_1.json plus its continuation parts; the followers_1.json page describes the raw format if you'd rather work from that.

"Date They Followed You" explained

The third column is the one Instagram never shows: the day each account started following you, converted from the export's timestamp to yyyy-mm-dd. Sort by it ascending and the top rows are your longest-standing followers; sort descending and you're looking at the newest. Group by month in a pivot table and you have a growth chart by actual follow date rather than Insights' rolling window. Because the timestamp is in UTC, a follow late at night can land on the next calendar day.

Things to do with the spreadsheet

Once the list is a sheet, a few things become easy:

• Find your oldest followers and say hello — the accounts from your first year are the ones most likely to engage.
• Filter the Date They Followed You column to a week when a post took off and see exactly who it brought in.
• Keep the CSV, export again next month, and compare the two lists to see who left — or just upload both ZIPs and let the tool do the diff.
• Run a MATCH against the free following list CSV to find mutuals yourself in a spreadsheet.

Followers list vs fans list

The followers CSV is everyone who follows you. A subset of it — followers you don't follow back — is what the site calls your fans, and it's often where recent arrivals you haven't noticed are sitting. The fans page explains that list; the new followers page uses two exports to show just the arrivals since a given date. Both start from the same followers_1.json this CSV is built from. The same download exists for Threads and TikTok exports, with their matching file formats.

What this download can't include

It can't include email addresses, phone numbers, display names, bios, follower counts or profile pictures — none of that is in the export, and no legitimate tool can add it. It can't download another account's followers. It can't mark which followers are active, bots or ghosts; the file has no engagement data. And it reflects the moment the export was generated: a follower who arrived this morning is in your next export, not this one.

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