Shortlist smaller accounts that actually get engagement
Big accounts are easy to find and expensive to work with. Rank the accounts under a tag by engagement per post instead of by fame, and get a shortlist you can check by hand.
Planning is free and needs no account. Running the plan (the collection, the written report and the CSV) is open to anyone signed in, on the 500 free rows an account gets every 30 days. Pricing says what more rows will cost. Everything below describes the report a run produces, with the posts behind it as a CSV.
What the report answers
- Authors ranked by engagement, not by follower count you cannot see
- How many posts each made in the window, so one viral fluke does not top the list
- Permalinks to their posts under the tag
- The other tags they use, to check they are really in your niche
Who this is for: Anyone building an outreach list without a $200/month tool.
How it works
- Describe the job in a sentence. You get back the plan it would run: which tags, how many posts, over what window, and what it assumed.
- Connect the Instagram account you already control. A run reads Instagram as you, on that account and no other, and your session is not stored.
- Run it. You get the written report and the rows as CSV, and you can re-run the same brief whenever you want the next window.