How to Export Instagram Followers to CSV (2026)

Instagram has no export button for another account's followers. Your own data export includes followers and following as files. A public list can be copied by hand or by a tool that reads the public page.

SUS Editorial TeamSep 24, 2026

There is no "Export to CSV" button on Instagram for someone else's followers. The platform gives you one real export: your own account's data, which includes your followers and your following as files. For another account's list, you are either copying by hand or using a tool that reads the public page.

The word "export" gets stretched in this category. A CSV of your own followers is a real file Instagram hands you. A CSV of someone else's followers is a scrape of a public page, with all the limits that implies.

Export your own followers the official way

This is the only export Instagram actually supports. Open Settings, then Accounts Centre, then Your information and permissions, then Download your information. Request a download, and select Followers and following. You pick a date range and a format, and Instagram emails a link when the file is ready.

The file is the real record of your account: who follows you, and who you follow. It is the same data behind your follow history, just in a downloadable form. It can take a day or more to prepare, and the link expires, so open it promptly.

Exporting someone else's followers does not exist natively

Instagram will not hand you another account's followers as a file. A public list is visible on screen, but there is no button to download it. The only way to get it into a CSV is to read the public page yourself, or let a tool read it for you.

That tool is doing one thing: loading the public Followers list and saving the usernames it can see. It works on public accounts, and it produces a list of who follows them right now. It cannot add a date, because the list has no dates for other people.

What a scraped list is missing

A copy of someone else's followers is a snapshot, not a history. It is who follows them at the moment you looked. It has no join dates, no "newest" order, and it cannot tell you who followed last week unless you saved a copy last week and compare — the same two-copies method as recent followers.

A private account you are not approved by has no list to read at all. That is the private account rule, and no export tool gets around it.

The cleanest CSV is your own

If what you actually want is a spreadsheet you can sort and filter, your own export is the one that works. It is complete, it is dated, and it is yours. For your own following list specifically, you do not even need the export to get dates — your profile sorts Following by date, and SUS lays that out as a timeline on iPhone.

So the honest ranking is: your own data export for a real CSV, a public-list copy for a snapshot of someone else, and nothing for a private account.

Frequently asked questions

Does Instagram have a CSV export for followers?

Only for your own account, through Download your information. Not for other people.

Can I export someone else's followers?

Only as a copy of the public list. No dates, no file from Instagram.

Does the export include dates?

Your own data can include when you followed accounts. Someone else's public list gives you no dates.

How long does the export take?

Usually within a day, sometimes a few. The link expires, so download it soon.

Can I export a private account's followers?

No. Without approval the list is not visible, so there is nothing to copy.

What to take away

Your own data export is the only real CSV Instagram provides. Someone else's followers can be copied from a public page, but that copy is a dateless snapshot. If you need a timeline you can sort, the export and your own dated following list are the two honest answers.