Export Instagram Followers to Excel or CSV

Instagram has no button to export your followers list to Excel, but you can get one without giving anyone your password: download your official data export, upload it to NomeSigueApp and click Download CSV. The CSV opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers or LibreOffice, with one row per account, its link and a date.

Why keep the list in a spreadsheet

Auditing collaborations: check who follows you before closing a deal, or review your own accounts.
Cleaning up lists: filter, sort and mark by hand who you want to review.
Backup: keep a record of how your network looked on a given date, so you can compare later.
Working with others: share a list with your team without giving access to the account.

Step by step

In Instagram, go to your profile → menu (three lines) → Accounts Center → Your information and permissions → Download your information.
Tap Download or transfer information, select your account and choose Some of your information.
Tick only Followers and following and choose Download to device.
Pick JSON format and the All time date range, then create the files. HTML won't work here: see JSON or HTML.
When Instagram's email arrives, download the ZIP. Requesting only that category usually takes minutes, and at most around 48 hours.
Open NomeSigueApp and upload the ZIP as is, without unzipping. If you prefer, upload the loose JSON files: followers_1.json (and followers_2.json if present) and following.json.
Choose the tab you want: Followers, Following, Don't follow you back, You don't follow back, Mutual follows or Pending requests.
Click Download CSV. You get the list of the active tab.
Open the file in your spreadsheet program.

All the analysis happens in your browser: the file isn't uploaded to any server.

What the CSV contains

The CSV has three columns, with these header names:

Column	Content
`username`	The account's username
`profile_url`	Link to the profile on Instagram
`followed_at`	Date in YYYY-MM-DD format

The date comes from the export's timestamp field and marks when that relationship began: on the Followers tab, when that account started following you; on Following, when you started following it. If a record has no date, that cell is empty.

You download what you seeThe CSV matches the active tab and respects any search you've typed. For the full list, clear the search box before clicking the button. For a different list, switch tabs and download again.

Opening it in Excel or Google Sheets

Excel: open the file directly, or use the Data tab's text/CSV import if you want to control the delimiter.
Google Sheets: File → Import → Upload, then pick the CSV.
Numbers and LibreOffice: they open the CSV with a double click.

If everything lands in a single column, the program expects a different delimiter. Import it and tell it the fields are separated by commas. If the date column shows in another format, that's the program applying your regional settings: the date in the file is still YYYY-MM-DD.

Once it's open, you can sort by followed_at to see who has been there longest, or filter username by text. If you only care about the oldest one, see who your first follower was.

Why not use extensions or scrapers

Many browser extensions and "export followers" tools ask you to log in or hand over your password. That breaks Instagram's terms and puts your account at risk. The official export doesn't have that problem: you download it yourself from your own account, and the tool never logs into it. For more context on these apps, read the comparison of unfollower apps.

Ideas for getting more out of the CSV

Keep a copy with the date in the file name. If you download another CSV later, you'll have two snapshots of your network to compare.
Compare two sheets with a lookup formula to see which usernames appear in one and not in the other.
Mark by hand in a new column who you want to keep or review, then filter on that column.
Download several tabs (Followers, Following, Mutuals) and put them on separate sheets of the same workbook.

Remember the CSV is a snapshot of the day you requested the export, not a list that updates itself. If you want to see changes between two dates without building formulas, the tool does it with its local history, which works in the same browser.

Frequently asked questions

Can I export another account's followers?

No. The official export only contains your own account's data. For other people's accounts only scrapers exist, and those are exactly the risk to avoid.

Does the CSV include real names, emails or phone numbers?

No. It only has the username, the profile link and the date. Those are the fields the tool reads from the export.

What if I have a lot of followers?

Instagram splits the list across several files (followers_1.json, followers_2.json...). The tool merges them all, so the CSV comes out complete.

Can I copy the list without downloading a file?

Yes. Besides the CSV, the tool can copy the active tab's usernames to your clipboard so you can paste them anywhere.

Make your first export

Request your export and upload it to NomeSigueApp: in a couple of clicks you'll have a list ready for Excel. If you don't know yet what's inside the ZIP, go through the export files.