instascope
📸 InstaScope
Instagram Account Analyzer — 100% offline. No API key. No login. Just drop your Instagram ZIP.
🚀 Try It Instantly (No Download)
👉 https://fgradeartist.github.io/instascope/
Just open and drop your Instagram ZIP file.
🌐 Use in Browser (No Install Needed)
Just download instascope.html and open it in Chrome/Firefox/Edge.
- No Python needed
- No installation
- Works on any device with a browser
- Drop your Instagram ZIP directly into the page
✨ Features
| Feature | Desktop App | Browser Version |
|---|---|---|
| Auto-load from ZIP | ✅ | ✅ |
| Drag & Drop ZIP | ✅ | ✅ |
| Not Following Back | ✅ | ✅ |
| Your Fans | ✅ | ✅ |
| Mutual Followers | ✅ | ✅ |
| Ghost Followers (180d+) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Story Hiders | ✅ | ✅ |
| Recently Unfollowed | ✅ | ✅ |
| Pending Requests | ✅ | ✅ |
| Recent Follow Requests | ✅ | ✅ |
| Removed Suggestions | ✅ | ✅ |
| Charts (Pie, Bar, Timeline) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Export CSV | ✅ | ✅ |
| Copy All Usernames | ✅ | ✅ |
| Search/Filter | ✅ | ✅ |
| Sort Columns | ✅ | ✅ |
| Right-click menu | ✅ | — |
| Load Log | ✅ | ✅ |
🚀 Quick Start
Option A — Browser (Easiest)
- Download
instascope.html - Open it in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge
- Drop your Instagram ZIP on the page
Option B — Desktop App (Windows)
- Download and extract the ZIP
- Double-click
InstaScope.bat - It will install all dependencies automatically
Option C — Desktop App (macOS / Linux)
chmod +x instascope.sh
./instascope.sh
📁 How to Export Your Instagram Data
- Open Instagram → Settings → Account Center → Your Information and Permissions
- Tap Download Your Information
- Select “Some of your information”
- Under Connections, check Followers and Following
- Set format to JSON (important!)
- Request download → wait for the email (up to 48 hours)
- Download the ZIP — drop it directly into InstaScope
📂 Files InstaScope Reads
| File | What it contains |
|---|---|
followers_1.json |
Everyone who follows you |
following.json |
Everyone you follow |
recently_unfollowed_profiles.json |
Your recent unfollow history |
hide_story_from.json |
Accounts hidden from your stories |
pending_follow_requests.json |
Follow requests you’ve sent (not accepted) |
recent_follow_requests.json |
All follow requests you’ve sent |
removed_suggestions.json |
Suggested accounts you dismissed |
All these files are inside the connections/followers_and_following/ folder in your ZIP — InstaScope finds them automatically.
📂 File Structure
InstaScope/
├── instascope.py ← Desktop app (Python)
├── instascope.html ← Browser version (no install)
├── InstaScope.bat ← Windows launcher
├── instascope.sh ← macOS/Linux launcher
└── README.md
🔒 Privacy
- No internet required (except to open profile links in browser)
- No data sent anywhere — everything runs locally on your device
- No login, no API key, no tokens
- The HTML version runs entirely in your browser tab
🛠 Troubleshooting
| Problem | Fix |
|---|---|
| “Python not found” | Install from python.org, check “Add to PATH” |
| “tkinter not found” on Linux | sudo apt install python3-tk |
| “tkinter not found” on Mac | brew install python-tk |
| Drag & drop not working | Run the launcher again — it installs tkinterdnd2 |
| Charts not showing | Run the launcher again — it installs matplotlib |
| App closes instantly | Open terminal, run python3 instascope.py to see the error |
| ZIP not loading in browser | Make sure you’re using Chrome/Firefox/Edge (not Safari on older iOS) |
📄 License
MIT License — free to use, modify, and share.
Made with ❤ for the Instagram community