Growman vs. Give Me Data: The Ultimate Instagram Scraping Showdown

Introducing Growman & Give Me Data

What is Growman?

Growman is a Chrome extension that allows users to extract emails, follower data, and profile details from Instagram. It’s designed for marketers who want to scrape public data from followers, followings, hashtags, and locations.

Key Features:

✔ Extract followers & following from any public profile
✔ Scrape emails, bios, phone numbers, and addresses
✔ Export data to XLSX (500 records free)
❌ Requires Instagram login & browser access
⚠  Risk of Instagram account blocks (use at your own risk)

Here is a picture of the extension-based tool in action:

What is Give Me Data?

Give Me Data is a web-based Instagram scraper that provides fast, secure, and hassle-free data extraction—no browser extensions or Instagram logins needed!

Key Features:

✔ No Chrome extension needed—works directly on the web
✔ No risk of Instagram blocks (handled via private API)
✔ Scrapes hidden followers of verified accounts (up to 90%!)
✔ Proxies & VPS handled automatically

Give Me Data operates on a coin-based system, making it flexible and cost-effective for large-scale scraping. You can scrape data based on:
✔️Followers
✔️Following
✔️Profile Data
✔️Hashtags

It allows you to scrape valuable public information from Instagram, such as:
✔️Emails
✔️Phone numbers
✔️Follower counts
✔️Bio details
✔️And more!

Not only this, you can also get much more information such as:
✔️Profile - business account or not
✔️Highlighted reels information
✔️Category of the account - Plastic Surgeon, Entrepreneur, Heallth/Beauty etc
✔️Number of followers
✔️Number of following
✔️Number of posts
✔️Bio details - extract phone numbers and emails if available
✔️External URL - link in bio
✔️Emails
✔️Phone number
✔️Address

Here's a snapshot of the web-based tool in action:

Here's a cool blog on how to use Give Me Data to scrape verified accounts - definitely check it out!

‍BONUS: Also at signup, you get 500 coins for free - sign up using this link! If you want to know more about how you can make money with Give Me Data, check this article out!

Pricing Comparision

Let's start with the pricing comparison for both Growman and Give Me Data:

Growman has two plans to choose from:

Basic: This plan is free forever. Here the tool allows you extract any user's profile, scrape their user's followers and following, but export data into excel for upto 500 records.

Pro: $10/month if you choose to pay monthly, and $5.99/month if you choose to buy the yearly subscription. In this plan, you get everything from the basic plan, and also unlimited data export to excel, with priority customer support.

Give Me Data has 4 plans to choose from, depending upon the need of the scraper:

Free: 500 coins, with 3 queries a day and 1 day data retention of the extracted data

Starter: $9.99 (one-time) for 100,000 coins, with 15 queries a day and 7 days data retention of the extracted data

Pro: $29.99 (one-time) for 350,000 coins, with 25 queries a day and 14 days data retention of the extracted data

Super Pro: $99.99 (one-time) for 2,000,000 coins, with 50 queries a day and 30 days data retention of the extracted data

Let's put the coins into perspective. Here is a coin usage example: Suppose you want to scrape complete information (emails, phone numbers, usernames, user IDs etc) of 100 followings of Marvel (yes, a verified account):

Give Me Data charges 100 coins for 100 followings, thus 1 coin per user:

Once the extraction is completed, go to the 'Your Extractions' tab from the left bar, and you will see your extraction. Your extracted data can be downloaded as a CSV file, for for ease of access and formatting.

As you can see from the above screenshot, here you are able to extract:
✔️User ID
✔️Username
✔️Account information - Public or Private
✔️Profile picture URL - yes, even that!

But let's just say this information is not what you are looking for, and you want emails for email outreach or addresses of the followers of Mark - we got you covered! Head back to the new extractions in Give Me Data and select 'Profile Data' option. Upload the CSV file you just downloaded in the previous step. Here the tool uses 25 coins per user. Thus for 100 users extracted in the previous step, it will charge us a total of 2500 coins. Here is a snapshot of the same:

From the new CSV downloaded, you now get much more information such as:
✔️Profile - business account or not
✔️Highlighted reels information
✔️Category of the account - Plastic Surgeon, Entrepreneur, Heallth/Beauty etc
✔️Number of followers
✔️Number of following
✔️Number of posts
✔️Bio details - extract phone numbers and emails if available
✔️External URL - link in bio
✔️Emails
✔️Phone number
✔️Address

Let's say you would like to extract the likers of a post or the likers from the latest 12 posts of an account (upto 12,000 for the latter), Give Me Data is here to help! You can use the new & fresh likers feature:

As you can see from the above picture, you get two options: first is to directly extract the likers of a specific post or reel. For this option, keep the 'Post likes for IG user' button off, and paste the link to that specific post you want to extract likers from. Second, you can extract up to 12,000 likes from the latest 12 posts of a user. For this, click on the 'Post likes for IG user' button and paste the URL of the instagram page/profile. For our example, we are extracting 1,000 likers from the page - Marvel:

For 1,000 likers to be extracted, Give Me Data charges 1,000 coins thus 1 coin per user:

Once you have clicked the extract button, within a few minutes under you extarctions will be availble your data to dowbloaded in the CSV format:

And here you see the data which is extracted:

If you'd like more information on these accounts, you can again put the downloaded excel file into the 'Profile Data' feature of Give Me Data, as described above and extract much more information such as emails, phone numbers etc.

So even if you buy the Starter plan for $9.99 and get 100,000 coins. You get complete information on 100 followings of Marvel with a total of 2600 coins (approximately $0.26) and still be left with over 97,000+ coins for your future extractions.

The Option We Recommend & Why

Yes, Growman is cheaper to Give Me Data in comparison. But we recommend using the latter for the following reasons:

No Browser Extensions or Instagram Logins

Growman operates as a Chrome extension, meaning you must install it directly into your browser and grant it access to your Instagram account. This setup poses two major risks:

1. Security Concerns – Since Growman requires your Instagram login credentials, you’re essentially trusting a third-party tool with your account access. If Growman’s security were ever compromised, your Instagram profile could be at risk.
2. Instagram Blocks & Bans – Because Growman interacts directly with Instagram’s front end, it triggers the same activity patterns that Instagram’s anti-bot systems monitor. Excessive scraping can lead to temporary blocks or even permanent bans on your account.

Give Me Data eliminates these risks entirely. Since it uses a private API and operates on its own web platform, you never have to:

• Install a browser extension.
• Log in with your Instagram credentials.
• Worry about Instagram detecting suspicious activity.

Scrapes Hidden Followers of Verified Accounts

One of the biggest limitations of most Instagram scrapers (including Growman) is that they can’t access hidden followers—particularly for verified accounts. Instagram intentionally restricts this data to prevent misuse, meaning most tools only scrape publicly visible followers.

Give Me Data bypasses this restriction. Thanks to its advanced API integration, it can retrieve up to 90% (in most cases) of a verified account’s hidden followers, giving you access to:

• Influencers’ real audience (not just the public-facing follower count).
• Competitor analysis (seeing who engages with top brands in your niche).
• High-value leads (many private followers are real users, not bots).

This feature alone makes Give Me Data far more powerful than most scrapers for marketers, agencies, and researchers who need deep Instagram insights.

Zero Hassle with Proxies & VPS

When using Growman, you’re responsible for avoiding Instagram’s anti-scraping measures. If you scrape too aggressively:

• Instagram may block your IP address.
• You might need to set up proxies or a VPN to continue scraping.
• Your account could get flagged or banned.

Give Me Data removes all these headaches. Since the scraping happens on Give Me Data’s servers (not your computer), they handle everything themselves via their private API. This means you get clean, uninterrupted data without worrying about technical setups.