Real talk: last month I was running a giveaway campaign for a client. The mechanic was simple — comment to enter, tag a friend for a bonus entry. 3,200 comments later, I was staring at a blank Google Sheet wondering how I was going to verify entries, remove duplicates, and pick a winner without losing my mind.
Instagram doesn’t give you any export functionality. Zero. You can view comments in the app, you can reply, you can delete — but you cannot export them in any structured way. This is apparently a deliberate product decision, and it’s been this way for years.
What I tried first: