arh1p/instagram-top-accounts

Most followed Instagram accounts: daily follower counts

Public follower counts of the most-followed Instagram accounts, one row per account per reading. This is the data behind FastSocial Top Charts and Instagram Statistics. It updates every day.

Files

File	Contents
daily.csv	Every reading since 25 Sep 2026
latest.csv	Newest reading per account, ordered by rank
monthly/YYYY-MM.csv	Readings for one month
manifest.json	Row count, account count, first and last date

Columns

Column	Meaning
date	Day of the reading (UTC), YYYY-MM-DD
username	Instagram username, without the @
followers	Public follower count shown on the profile that day
name	Display name
category	Main category: Sports, Music, Film & TV, Creators, Fashion & beauty, Brands, Media, Public figures, or blank
country	Two-letter country code (ISO 3166-1), blank when unknown
type	person or org
rank	Rank by followers at the latest reading, among the accounts tracked (same as Top Charts)
also_in	Other categories the account belongs to, separated by ; . Blank for most accounts
countries	Every country the account is tied to, main country first, separated by ; (for example US;GA). For people these are their citizenships, so most rows have one code

Method

• Counts are the public follower numbers shown on each profile. They are not estimated or adjusted.
• The top 500 accounts are read every day. The rest are read every five days, so not every account has a row for every date.
• Candidate accounts come from Wikidata entries that list an Instagram username, plus a short hand-kept list.
• Private accounts are left out. Accounts can ask to be removed through the opt-out form. Removed accounts are taken out of the whole history.
• rank is the current rank, not the rank on the day of the reading.

Full method: https://fastsocial.co/instagram-stats?ref=github-dataset#data

Licence and credit

CC BY 4.0. Free to use, share and adapt, including commercially. Credit "FastSocial" and link to the source, for example:

Data: FastSocial Top Charts, CC BY 4.0

Also available

• Direct download: https://fastsocial.co/instagram-stats/daily.csv.gz
• JSON of the current chart: https://fastsocial.co/static/mf/top.json
• API: https://fastsocial.co/instagram-api?ref=github-dataset