How to Export Your Instagram Following List to a Spreadsheet
Short answer: Use Instagram's Accounts Center export for a first-party account archive. Use Followers Tracker Pro when you want your own following list as a ready-to-sort CSV or Excel file after a browser-based scan.
Your Instagram following list — everyone you follow — is useful data once it's in a spreadsheet. You can audit it, clean it up, back it up, or compare it against your followers. Instagram offers an account-information export, but not a direct spreadsheet button beside the in-app list.
Why bother exporting who you follow
- Find non-followers — compare it to your followers list to see who doesn't follow you back.
- Spot inactive or dead accounts you're still following.
- Clean up — a sortable list makes it obvious who to unfollow.
- Backup — if your account is ever locked or lost, you have a record of your network.
Scrolling the list inside Instagram gives you none of this: you can't sort it, search it properly, or save it.
The manual option
Instagram's official Export your information flow lets you request selected account information from Accounts Center. It is the first-party option for an archive, but the generated format may need conversion or cleanup before spreadsheet work.
The one-click method
Followers Tracker for Instagram Pro exports your following list to CSV or Excel after scanning your own account. The export is generated locally from the data available in your signed-in browser session, ready to sort and filter in a spreadsheet.
Step by step
- Install Followers Tracker for Instagram and make sure you're logged in to Instagram.
- Open it and choose your signed-in account.
- Run a scan, then open the Pro export controls.
- Choose the following list and download Excel or CSV after the scan completes.
Quick answers
- Can I export the following list of another account? This workflow is designed for the account you control and are signed in to. Public availability can change, so do not rely on it for third-party account collection.
- What's the difference from the followers export? Followers = people who follow you; following = people you follow. The extension does both, plus the comparison between them.
- Does it change anything on my account? No — it only reads. It doesn't follow, unfollow, or post anything.
- Free? Manual scans and history are free. CSV and Excel exports require Pro.