Instagram MCP Server

The all-in-one MCP server for Instagram. Plug any AI agent - Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, VS Code, or your own - into a single endpoint and pull live data from any public Instagram profile: bio, followers, following, stories, and highlights.

What you get

• Full profile metadata - user ID, display name, biography, follower/following/media counts, verification status, business category, public email and phone, and location when available
• Followers & following lists - paginated, with username, display name, verification, and profile picture for every account
• Live stories - currently active 24-hour stories with media URLs, timestamps, mentions, and outbound links
• Story highlights - full highlight reels with cover images and every story inside them
• Bulk lookups - query up to 20 usernames in a single call for profiles and stories
• One endpoint, five tools - no glue code, no per-tool integrations, no scraping infrastructure to maintain

Use cases

• AI agents and assistants that need Instagram data without building a custom scraper
• Influencer vetting and audience research - verify follower counts, audience overlap, and engagement signals
• Lead generation from public business profiles - pull email, phone, and category in bulk
• Competitor monitoring - track stories, highlights, and bio changes across accounts
• Bulk profile enrichment from a list of usernames
• Social listening and brand mention tracking

Tools exposed

Tool	Returns
get-profile	Profile metadata for up to 20 usernames per call
get-followers	Paginated follower list for a username
get-following	Paginated following list for a username
get-stories	Active 24-hour stories for up to 20 usernames per call
get-highlights	Highlight reels and every story inside them, up to 10 usernames per call

How to use

Use Apify's hosted MCP gateway - it generates ready-to-paste config snippets for Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT, and any other MCP-compatible client:

mcp.apify.com/?tools=seemuapps/instagram-mcp

Open the link, sign in, and copy the snippet for your client.

Where to get your Apify API token

Go to console.apify.com/settings/integrations and copy your Personal API token. (Sign in or create a free account if you haven't already.)

The token authorizes calls to the MCP server and is what Apify uses to bill you for tool calls.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

Tool	Event	Charged
get-profile	profile-lookup	Once per profile successfully returned
get-followers	followers-batch-50	Per 50 followers returned (rounded up)
get-following	following-batch-50	Per 50 following accounts returned (rounded up)
get-stories	stories-lookup	Once per username queried
get-highlights	highlight-record	Once per highlight reel returned (title + cover + stories)

Failed calls are not charged. Partial failures (e.g. one bad username in a batch) are reported per-item without aborting the whole call.

Pagination - followers & following

get-followers and get-following accept maxItems (1-2000, default 200) and an optional pageId cursor. Each response includes a nextPageId - pass it as pageId on the next call to fetch the following page. When nextPageId is null, the list is exhausted.

{
  "users": [ { "userId": "...", "username": "...", ... } ],
  "nextPageId": "ABC123..."
}

Notes

• Only public Instagram profiles are supported. Private accounts return profile metadata only.
• Stories expire 24 hours after posting - get-stories returns whatever is currently live.

Related Instagram actors

Part of a complete Instagram scraping toolkit - explore the rest of the suite:

• Instagram Profile Scraper - Profile metadata for any public account
• Instagram Posts & Reels Scraper - All posts and Reels from a profile
• Instagram Post Details Scraper - Full details for any post or Reel by URL
• Instagram Comments Scraper - All comments on a post or Reel
• Instagram Post Likers Scraper - Users who liked a post or Reel
• Instagram Followers Scraper - Followers and following lists
• Instagram Hashtag Scraper - Top posts and Reels for any hashtag
• Instagram Location Posts Scraper - Posts tagged at any location
• Instagram Tagged Posts Scraper - Posts a profile is tagged in
• Instagram Reels Search Scraper - Find Reels by keyword
• Instagram User Search Scraper - Discover accounts by keyword
• Instagram Related Profiles Scraper - Find similar/suggested profiles
• Instagram Story Scraper - Active stories for any profile
• Instagram Highlights Scraper - Highlights and their stories
• Instagram Email & Phone Scraper - Emails and phone numbers from profiles
• Instagram Influencer Analytics Scraper - Engagement rate and creator analytics