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Instagram MCP Server

by jojapi Your server? Claim it
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Instagram is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 22 tools.

Instagram: Instagram public data scraper API for search, users, posts, hashtags, locations and more.

Uptime history 58 days of history · worst day 92%
58 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
22
Tools
read from the server
353 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add instagram --transport http https://mcp.jojapi.com/instagram
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instagram": {
      "url": "https://mcp.jojapi.com/instagram"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.instagram]
url = "https://mcp.jojapi.com/instagram"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instagram": {
      "url": "https://mcp.jojapi.com/instagram"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instagram": {
      "url": "https://mcp.jojapi.com/instagram"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 22

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

user
get_user_details_by_username
User Details (by username) Group: User. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_user_posts_by_username
User Posts (by username) Group: User. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_user_stories_by_username
User Stories (by username) Group: User. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v2_user_details_by_id
v2 / User Details by ID Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v2_user_details_by_username
v2 / User Details by Username Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v2_user_following_hashtags
v2 / User Following Hashtags Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v2_user_posts
v2 / User Posts Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v2_user_tagged_posts
v2 / User Tagged Posts Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v3_1_user_details_by_username
User Details by Username (more detailed) Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v3_user_details_by_id
User Details by ID Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v3_user_details_by_username
User Details By Username Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v3_user_stories
User Stories Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v4_1_user_posts
v4.1 / user-posts Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v4_user_details_by_username
v4 / user-details-by-username Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v4_user_highlights
v4 / user-highlights Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v4_user_posts
v4 / user-posts Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v4_user_stories
v4 / user-stories Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get
get_v2_search
v2 / Search Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
highlight
get_v4_highlight_stories
v4 / highlight-stories Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
location
get_v2_location_posts
v2 / Location Posts Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
post
get_v2_post_details_by_shortcode
v2 / Post Details by Shortcode Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
tag
get_v2_tag_posts
v2 / Tag Posts Group: Deprecated Endpoints. Billing per call: 1 Credits.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.jojapi.com/instagram streamable-http answering 754 ms 14 min ago

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Instagram — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Instagram do?
It exposes 22 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_user_details_by_username, get_user_posts_by_username, get_user_stories_by_username, get_v2_location_posts, get_v2_post_details_by_shortcode, get_v2_search and 16 more. 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 Instagram working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 353 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect 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 Instagram need an API key?
No. Instagram completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 22 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Instagram?
It answers our handshake in 353 ms on average, which is faster than 38% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.