Instagram Profile Posts

Give it an Instagram profile, get back its recent posts.

What it does

• Returns recent posts from an Instagram profile.
• Takes either username or profile_url. Pass at least one.
• max_posts sets how many posts come back — 1 to 100, default 10.
• Cost is flat per call. Pulling 100 posts costs the same 0.5 credits as pulling 10.

Use it for competitor content audits, creator vetting, and reading a brand’s positioning before you write to them.

Parameters

How to use it

Get the last 20 Instagram posts from the username stripe.

Pull the last 50 Instagram posts from these three competitor handles.
Summarise what each one posts about and how often.

Pull the last 30 posts from this Instagram profile URL. Tell me what they
post about and whether it fits a B2B SaaS audience.

Example prompts

Best prompting practices

• Pass the handle or the URL, not the display name. “Stripe” is a display name; stripe is the handle.
• Raise max_posts when you are auditing. The default of 10 is a spot check, not a content audit, and the cost is the same either way.
• Ask for a themed summary. “Group these posts into content pillars” turns a raw feed into something you can act on.
• Name the tool — “use instagram_profile_posts” — so your client does not fall back to a web search.
• Cap the batch. “Stop after 20 profiles and report credits used.”

Output

{
  "username": "stripe",
  "posts": [
    {
      "caption": "Behind the scenes at Sessions 2026.",
      "posted_at": "2026-07-22T14:05:00Z",
      "url": "https://instagram.com/p/abc123"
    }
  ]
}

Credits and limits

0.5 credits per call, whatever max_posts you set. Run check_credits (free) before a large batch.

Related tools

Next steps

• All MCP tools — the full catalogue with credit costs
• AI for Sales Reps — workflows that chain this tool into content research

Keep learning

Two courses take these tools past the reference page — clustered by GTM job, then chained into workflows.