Instagram for your AI agent: find accounts, read them, and DM from your own

Instagram tools

What can your agent do on Instagram?

Each row is one tool your agent can call. The price is the lowest a successful call costs at list price; where a tool serves several networks it can differ by network, and the tool's own page lists each one. The exact figure is quoted before every run.

Tool	What it returns	Providers	From
Social post searchsocial.search	Public posts matching a keyword on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook: brand mentions, category conversations, competitor chatter.	Apify	$0.002per result
Social posts & contentsocial.posts	Recent public posts for a social handle.	Apify	$0.002per result
Post commentssocial.comments	Comments on one public post URL (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, and replies to a post on X): text, author, likes, replies, time.	Apify	$0.002per result
Social profile lookupsocial.profile	Public profile data for a social handle: name, followers, bio, verified, plus the bio link, every listed link, the person's own domain (link hubs such as Linktree excluded), a public or business email when the profile exposes one, profile URL, business flag, category and location when the platform provides them.	Apify	$0.002per match
Your Instagram accountinstagram.account	Connect an Instagram account for DMs: returns a hosted sign-in link the account holder opens once (username, password and the two-factor code go to the provider's page, never to RouterGrowth), then reports the connection status. Without a name it reports the account already connected instead of minting a link. Run again with the name to confirm or to get a reconnect link. Free to run; a connected account rents a seat billed monthly.	Unipile	freeper call
Instagram profileinstagram.profile	One Instagram account as your connected account sees it: name, handle, bio, followers, category, the links in the bio with the person's own domain resolved, the business email, phone and address when the account exposes them, whether they follow you, and the messaging_id a new DM needs. The enrichment step between finding a handle and writing to it.	Unipile	$0.002per profile
Instagram DMinstagram.message	Send a direct message from your connected Instagram account: open a new conversation with a handle (or the messaging_id from instagram.profile), or reply in an existing thread by chat_id. You are the sender of record. A first message to someone who does not follow you lands in their requests folder.	Unipile	$0.009per message
Read Instagram inboxinstagram.messages	Conversations on your connected Instagram account, newest first, with unread counts; pass chat_id to read one thread. Poll it after DMs to catch replies.	Unipile	$0.002per read

Every tool has a page with its input schema, its output fields and the price on each provider. Browse the whole catalog or see how plans lower every price.

Connect

How do you connect it?

One MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, or the same calls over the CLI and REST. The example runs social.search.

claude mcp add --transport http routergrowth https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp

npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup
routergrowth run -c social.search -i '{"platform": "instagram", "query": "skincare", "limit": 30}'

curl -X POST https://api.routergrowth.com/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERGROWTH_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"capability": "social.search", "input": {"platform": "instagram", "query": "skincare", "limit": 30}}'

In claude.ai and ChatGPT, add https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp as a connector and approve the workspace in the browser. Setup for every client.

Workflows

What do people build with it?

Complete jobs that call these tools, each with the prompt to paste and the cost of a run.

FAQ

Questions about Instagram and AI agents