Connect Instagram to OpenClaw on Operator.io
Instagram is a social platform for sharing photos, videos, and stories with your audience. It helps brands and creators engage, grow, and analyze their online presence.
Automate Instagram with AI
Your OpenClaw agent lives on Operator and treats Instagram as one more service it can drive. Send it an outcome in a Telegram or Discord message and it works out which of the 29 Instagram actions to run, then runs them.
Your agent reaches Instagram directly or through connectors like Composio MCP and Pipedream MCP, which handle the sign in and token refresh for you, so there is nothing to wire up and no API keys to paste.
What your agent can do with Instagram
Your agent can call any of these Instagram actions by name as part of a larger task. Ask for the outcome you want and it picks the right ones.
Create Carousel Container
Create a draft carousel post with multiple images/videos before publishing. Instagram requires carousels to have between 2 and 10 media items. Container creation_ids expire in under 24 hours, so publish promptly after creation.
Delete Comment
Tool to delete a comment on Instagram media. Use when you need to remove a comment that was created by your Instagram Business or Creator Account. Note: You can only delete comments that your account created - you cannot delete other use...
Delete Messenger Profile
Tool to delete messenger profile settings for an Instagram account. Use when you need to remove ice breakers, persistent menu, greeting messages, or other messaging configuration from the messenger profile.
Get Conversation
Get details about a specific Instagram DM conversation (participants, etc). Requires a Business or Creator account with Instagram messaging permissions; personal accounts will return permission errors. Newly sent/received messages may ta...
Get IG Comment Replies
Get replies to a specific Instagram comment. Returns a list of comment replies with details like text, username, timestamp, and like count. Use when you need to retrieve child comments (replies) for a specific parent comment.
Get Instagram Media
Get a published Instagram Media object (photo, video, story, reel, or carousel). Use when you need to retrieve detailed information about a specific Instagram post including engagement metrics, caption, media URLs, and metadata. NOTE: Th...
Get IG Media Children
Tool to get media objects (images/videos) that are children of an Instagram carousel/album post. Use when you need to retrieve individual media items from a carousel album post. Note: Carousel children media do not support insights queri...
Get IG Media Comments
Tool to retrieve comments on an Instagram media object. Use when you need to fetch comments from a specific Instagram post, photo, video, or carousel owned by the connected Business/Creator account. Supports cursor-based pagination for n...
Get IG Media Insights
Tool to get insights and metrics for Instagram media objects (photos, videos, reels, carousel albums). Use when you need to retrieve performance data such as views, reach, likes, comments, saves, and shares for specific media. Note: Insi...
Get IG User Content Publishing Limit
Get an Instagram Business Account's current content publishing usage. Use this to monitor quota usage before publishing; exceeding the daily cap blocks new posts until the quota resets (no partial failure — new publish calls are rejected...
Get IG User Live Media
Get live media objects during an active Instagram broadcast. Returns the live video media ID and metadata when a live broadcast is in progress on an Instagram Business or Creator account. Use this to monitor active live streams and acces...
Get IG User Media
Get Instagram user's media collection (posts, photos, videos, reels, carousels). Use when you need to retrieve all media published by an Instagram Business or Creator account with support for pagination and time-based filtering.
Get IG User Stories
Get active story media objects for an Instagram Business or Creator account. Stories are retrieved via the /stories endpoint. Returns stories that are currently active within the 24-hour window. Use this to retrieve story content, metada...
Get IG User Tags
Get Instagram media where the user has been tagged by other users. Use when you need to retrieve all media in which an Instagram Business or Creator account has been tagged, including tags in captions, comments, or on the media itself.
Get Messenger Profile
Get the messenger profile settings for an Instagram account. Returns ice breakers and other messaging configuration. Use when you need to retrieve messaging settings, ice breaker questions, or messenger configuration for an Instagram Bus...
Get Page Conversations
Get Instagram conversations for a Page connected to an Instagram Business account. Use platform=instagram parameter to filter for Instagram conversations only.
Get User Info
Get Instagram Business Account info including profile details and statistics. IMPORTANT: Only works for Business/Creator accounts you manage through Facebook Business Manager. Cannot query arbitrary public Instagram accounts. Use "me" to...
Get User Insights
Get Instagram account-level insights and analytics (profile views, reach, follower count, etc.). Requires a Business or Creator account; personal accounts are not supported. Returned timestamps are in UTC. metric_type (time_series or tot...
List All Conversations
List all Instagram DM conversations for the authenticated user. Requires a Business/Creator account with messaging permissions; personal accounts return empty results. Response conversations are nested under `data.data` — accessing top-l...
List All Messages
List all messages from a specific Instagram DM conversation. Requires a Business or Creator account with messaging permissions; personal accounts return empty results. Response data is nested under data.data (double-wrapped); attachment-...
Mark Seen
Mark Instagram DM messages as read/seen for a specific user. Sends a 'mark_seen' sender action to indicate messages from the specified recipient have been read. Marking as seen is visible to the other party and changes inbox read state —...
Post IG Comment Replies
Tool to create a reply to an Instagram comment. Use when you need to reply to a specific comment on an Instagram post owned by a Business or Creator account. The reply must be 300 characters or less, contain at most 4 hashtags and 1 URL,...
Post IG Media Comments
Tool to create a comment on an Instagram media object. Use when you need to post a comment on a specific Instagram post, photo, video, or carousel. The comment must be 300 characters or less, contain at most 4 hashtags and 1 URL, and can...
Post IG User Media
Tool to create a media container for Instagram posts. Use this to create a container for images, videos, Reels, or carousels. This is the first step in Instagram's two-step publishing process - after creating the container, use the media...
Publish IG User Media
Tool to publish a media container to an Instagram Business account. This action automatically waits for the container to finish processing before publishing. Rate limited to 25 API-published posts per 24-hour moving window. The publishin...
Reply to IG User Mentions
Tool to reply to a mention of your Instagram Business or Creator account. Use when you need to respond to comments or media captions where your account has been @mentioned by another Instagram user. This creates a comment on the media or...
Send Image
Send an image via Instagram DM to a specific user. Each send modifies inbox state; avoid bulk or automated sends without explicit user approval.
Send Text Message
Send a text message to an Instagram user via DM in an existing conversation. Cannot initiate new DM threads — a prior conversation must exist. Requires an Instagram Business or Creator account with messaging permissions. Fails with error...
Update Messenger Profile
Tool to update the messenger profile settings for an Instagram account. Use when you need to configure ice breakers and messaging options. Ice breakers are suggested questions that help users start conversations with your Instagram Busin...
How to connect Instagram
You authorize Instagram once from your dashboard. Operator holds the connection and refreshes the access tokens on its own, so your agent keeps working with Instagram without you signing in again. The same setup unlocks every other app your agent can reach, so you only do it once.
When you are ready, the get started guide walks through standing up your OpenClaw agent.
Common questions about Instagram
- How do I connect Instagram to Operator?
- Connecting Instagram is a one time sign in from your Operator dashboard. Operator keeps the connection live and rotates the token on its own, so the agent stays connected to Instagram and you never reauthorize by hand.
- Can my agent publish and schedule content in Instagram?
- Yes. It can draft posts, schedule them, and read back how they did once they are live. A common loop is draft, review, schedule, and publish, where you approve the copy and the agent handles the timing and the posting in Instagram.
- Do I need to write code or manage Instagram API keys?
- No. Operator manages the Instagram connection and token refresh, so there are no API keys to paste and nothing to deploy.
- Can my agent use Instagram together with my other apps?
- Yes. The same agent reaches every app you connect, so it can move between Instagram and tools like Twitter, Strava, Dotsimple in one job, reading from one and acting in another without you wiring anything between them.
Connect Instagram to another app
Your agent can run Instagram together with any of these. Each page shows what it does across both apps in one job.
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Apps your agent runs alongside Instagram, or browse all integrations.
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