instapi: Instagram MCP Server

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answering

instapi: Instagram is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Instagram search and posts for AI agents, with images and videos AI-parsed to text.

Uptime history 11 days of history

11 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

1158 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check instapi: Instagram every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add instagram --transport http https://instapi.co/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instagram": {
      "url": "https://instapi.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.instagram]
url = "https://instapi.co/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instagram": {
      "url": "https://instapi.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instagram": {
      "url": "https://instapi.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

instagram

instagram_search

Search Instagram users, hashtags, and places by keyword. Costs 1 credit. Requires Authorization: Bearer sk_instapi_... on the MCP connection.

instagram_user_posts

Fetch recent posts for an Instagram username, with images and videos AI-parsed into text descriptions. Costs 1 credit. Requires Authorization: Bearer sk_instapi_.... First fetch for a user can take up to ~60s while media is analyzed; cached users return fast.

instagram_user_profile

Public profile for an Instagram username: bio, links, follower/following/post counts, verified/private/business flags, category. Works for private accounts too. Costs 1 credit (refunded if the user doesn't exist). Requires Authorization: Bearer sk_instapi_....

started

get_started

Free, no auth. Service overview, pricing, current account status, and how to get an API key for the data tools.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://instapi.co/mcp	streamable-http	answering	256 ms	5 min ago

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instapi: Instagram — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can instapi: Instagram do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_started, instagram_search, instagram_user_posts, instagram_user_profile. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is instapi: Instagram working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 1158 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect instapi: Instagram?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does instapi: Instagram need an API key?

No. instapi: Instagram completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is instapi: Instagram?

It answers our handshake in 1158 ms on average, which is faster than 5% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.