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Pil runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 16 Sep 2026.

PIL: local-first knowledge base for your Instagram saved posts, with a read-only MCP server.

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pypi · personal-instagram-library
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16 Sep 2026
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MIT
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 18 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

    p = subprocess.run(["instagram-cli"] + args, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=300)
Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

    p = subprocess.run(["instagram-cli"] + args, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=300)
        with open(os.path.join(HERE, name), 'rb') as f:
Runs an external command dashboard/qa-signal.js:62
  try { execSync(`node --check ${tmp}`, { stdio: 'pipe' }); ok(true, 'script[' + i + '] syntax'); }
Executes code built at runtime dashboard/qa-signal.js:89
  window.eval(fs.readFileSync(path.join(HERE, 'ring-component', 'pil-ring.js'), 'utf8'));

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Pil and you get told the day something new turns up.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add pil -- uvx personal-instagram-library
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pil": {
      "args": [
        "personal-instagram-library"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.pil]
command = "uvx"
args = ["personal-instagram-library"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pil": {
      "args": [
        "personal-instagram-library"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pil": {
      "args": [
        "personal-instagram-library"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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Pil — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Pil?
Pil runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package personal-instagram-library.
How do I connect Pil?
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 runs locally, so the command pulls personal-instagram-library straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
Is Pil open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.