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Open this while you're signed in on your phone — logged-out visitors get bounced to a login screen and lose the deep link.

1. Instagram → the ☰ menu → Accounts Center.
2. Your information and permissions → Download your information.
3. Download or transfer information → your Instagram account.
4. Some of your information → tick only Followers and following. (Add more only if you need it.)
5. Download to device → set the format and date range on the next screen, then Create files.

• Format: JSON, not HTML.

  HTML is the default in some flows and it looks nicer, but no tool can read it reliably — including this one. Pick JSON.

• Date range: All time.

  The picker defaults to the last year. Your followers list is a snapshot, not a date range, but everything else silently loses history.

• Tick only what you need — media quality Low.

  A full archive is over a gigabyte and phones give up on it. Followers and following alone is 1–5 MB and answers everything on this page.

• Download within 4 days.

  The link Instagram emails you expires. Miss it and you request the whole thing again from step 1.

instagram-<handle>-<date>-<hash>/
├── connections/
│   └── followers_and_following/
│       ├── followers_1.json        ← who follows you
│       ├── following.json          ← who you follow
│       ├── pending_follow_requests.json
│       ├── recently_unfollowed_profiles.json
│       ├── blocked_profiles.json
│       └── close_friends.json
├── logged_information/
│   └── past_instagram_insights/
│       └── audience_insights.json  ← your real follower total
└── media/ · your_instagram_activity/ · ads_information/
                                     (photos, videos, everything else)