finding-restaurant-brands-on-instagram

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Discovers restaurant brands, food businesses, and hospitality accounts on Instagram using apidojo's Instagram Scraper on Apify. Triggers when the user asks to: find restaurant brands on Instagram, discover food businesses for outreach on Instagram, build a list of restaurant Instagram accounts, find cafes or food chains active on Instagram, identify local restaurant brands by hashtag or location on Instagram, or prospect food and beverage businesses via their Instagram presence. Returns account handle, follower count, bio, post count, and engagement data. Ideal for food tech SaaS vendors, beverage distributors, and B2B service providers targeting restaurants.

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Sourceapidojo-io/apidojo-skills

Added on2026-09-03

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills finding-restaurant-brands-on-instagram

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Finding Restaurant Brands On Instagram

Inputs

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Notes
`startUrls`	array	✅	`[]`	Instagram URLs — profiles, hashtags, locations, audio pages, reels
`until`	string	Optional	—	Scrape posts until this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
`maxItems`	number	Optional	Unlimited	Maximum posts to return
`customMapFunction`	string	Optional	—	JavaScript function to transform each output object

How to Run

Using run_actor.js (recommended)

bash

# Quick answer (table)
node scripts/run_actor.js --actor "apidojo~instagram-scraper" --input '{"startUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/restaurantowner/"], "maxItems": 100}'

# Save as CSV
node scripts/run_actor.js --actor "apidojo~instagram-scraper" --input '{"startUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/restaurantowner/"], "maxItems": 100}' --output results.csv --format csv

# Save as JSON
node scripts/run_actor.js --actor "apidojo~instagram-scraper" --input '{"startUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/restaurantowner/"], "maxItems": 100}' --output results.json --format json

REST API fallback

bash

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apidojo~instagram-scraper/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/restaurantowner/"], "maxItems": 100}'

If Apify MCP is available: Use the Apify MCP

call_actor

tool with actor

apidojo~instagram-scraper

and the input above.

Scoring & Ranking

Score each account by:

engagement_rate = (likeCount + commentCount) / followerCount

→ weight 0.4

```
followerCount
```
→ normalized 0-1, weight 0.3
```
has_business_bio
```
(bio contains phone/website/address keywords) → weight 0.3

python

score = 0.4 * min(engagement_rate / 0.05, 1.0) + 0.3 * min(followerCount / 50000, 1.0) + 0.3 * int(has_business_bio)

Classification

Score	Tier	Label
≥ 0.70	A	PRIME_PROSPECT
0.40–0.69	B	WARM_LEAD
< 0.40	C	LOW_PRIORITY

Edge Cases

Hashtag too broad:
```
#food
```
returns millions of posts from consumers, not businesses. Use niche tags like
```
#restaurantowner
```
or
```
#foodbiz
```
.
No business in bio: Filter by accounts that have website links or phone in bio.
Consumer accounts mixed in: Filter by followerCount > 500 and postCount > 20.
Private account: No post data — skip.
Duplicate accounts: Same brand may post under multiple hashtags — deduplicate by username.