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Summary
Read an Instagram professional (business or creator) account through Meta's Instagram API with Facebook Login: profile, posts, reels and stories, account and post insights, comments and replies, hashtag search and public business profiles. Content publishing is included but installed switched off.
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Instagram + Meta Muse
Read an Instagram professional (business or creator) account through Meta's Instagram API with Facebook Login: profile, posts, reels and stories, account and post insights, comments and replies, hashtag search and public business profiles. Content publishing is included but installed switched off.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN, INSTAGRAM_ACCOUNT_ID
Step 1 — Get credentials
The connector reads one Instagram professional account (business or creator) that is linked to a Facebook Page, through Meta's Graph API. Personal Instagram accounts have no API access.
- In Meta Business settings, open Users → System users, pick or create a system user and assign it the Facebook Page and the Instagram account as assets.
- Click Generate token, choose your Meta app (with the Instagram product added), set the expiry to Never and grant instagram_basic, instagram_manage_insights, instagram_manage_comments, pages_show_list, pages_read_engagement and business_management. Add instagram_content_publish only if you want to publish. Paste the token into
INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN. A long-lived user token from the Graph API Explorer also works, but has to be replaced every 60 days. - Set
INSTAGRAM_ACCOUNT_IDto the Instagram account id, a number starting with 1784 (not the username and not the Page id). Meta Business settings shows it under Accounts → Instagram accounts;instagram_list_linked_accountsreturns it asinstagram_business_account.id. - Call
instagram_get_accountfirst: it checks the setup and returns follower and media counts.
The publishing tools instagram_create_media_container and instagram_publish_media are installed switched off. API publishing is limited to 50 posts per 24 hours, hashtag search to 30 distinct hashtags in a rolling 7 days, and accounts below 100 followers return no demographic insights. Error 190 means the token expired or was revoked; error 10 or 200 means a permission is missing.
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Muse
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Muse adds remote MCP servers as custom connectors and signs in to them with OAuth.
- In Muse, open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
- Paste the MCP server URL
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. - Muse opens the AnythingMCP sign-in page: sign in and approve access.
- In a chat, ask Muse for something that needs the
Instagramtools.
You can also set it up from a chat, on the web, in the iOS and Android apps or in WhatsApp. Send Muse this message:
Create a Custom Connector for a new remote MCP server, then connect to it:
Name: AnythingMCP
Transport: remote streamable HTTP
URL: https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID
Auth: OAuth
Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Muse connects from Meta's cloud, so localhost does not work.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
instagram_list_linked_accounts | List the Facebook Pages the token can access, each with the Instagram professional account linked to it (instagram_business_account with id… |
instagram_get_account | Get the configured Instagram account's profile: username, name, biography, website, followers_count, follows_count, media_count and profile… |
instagram_list_media | List the account's posts and reels, newest first, with caption, media_type (IMAGE, VIDEO, CAROUSEL_ALBUM), media_product_type (FEED… |
instagram_get_media | Get one post, reel or story by media id: caption, type, permalink, timestamp, like and comment counts, media URL and, for carousels, the… |
instagram_list_stories | List the account's stories that are live now (stories disappear from the API 24 hours after posting) |
instagram_list_tagged_media | List public posts by other accounts in which the configured account has been tagged, with caption, permalink, username of the author and… |
instagram_get_account_insights | Get account-level insights for the configured account: reach, views, accounts_engaged, total_interactions, likes, comments, shares, saves… |
instagram_get_media_insights | Get lifetime insights for one post, reel or story: reach, views, likes, comments, saved, shares, total_interactions, profile_visits… |
instagram_list_comments | List the top-level comments on one post or reel, newest first, with text, username, timestamp, like_count, hidden flag and the replies… |
instagram_list_comment_replies | List the replies to one comment, with text, username, timestamp and like_count |
instagram_reply_to_comment | Post a public reply, as the configured account, under a comment on one of its own posts |
instagram_hide_comment | Hide or unhide a comment on one of the account's own posts |
instagram_search_hashtag | Look up a hashtag by name and return its id, which instagram_get_hashtag_top_media and instagram_get_hashtag_recent_media need |
instagram_get_hashtag_top_media | Get the most popular public posts for a hashtag, with caption, media type, permalink, like and comment counts and timestamp (no usernames) |
instagram_get_hashtag_recent_media | Get public posts tagged with a hashtag in the last 24 hours, newest first, with caption, media type, permalink, counts and timestamp |
instagram_get_business_profile | Look up another Instagram business or creator account by username (business discovery): followers_count, media_count, biography, website… |
instagram_get_publishing_limit | Show how many posts the account has published through the API in the current rolling 24 hours (quota_usage) and the limit… |
instagram_create_media_container | Step 1 of publishing: create a media container for an image, a video, a reel, a story or a carousel item from a public HTTPS URL |
instagram_get_container_status | Check whether a media container is ready to publish. status_code is IN_PROGRESS while Instagram processes a video, FINISHED when ready… |
instagram_publish_media | Step 2 of publishing: publish a container (status FINISHED) to the account, making the post, reel, story or carousel public at once |
FAQ
Where is Muse available? Meta currently offers Muse in the US and Canada, on the web, in the iOS and Android apps and in WhatsApp.
Does Meta review this connector? No. Meta doesn't review custom connectors. Muse sees only the tools you switched on for this MCP server in AnythingMCP, and you can disconnect it anytime under Settings → Connectors.
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