Instagram's official Graph API only covers accounts you manage. These connectors return public Instagram data for any account, hashtag or location, in clean JSON your agent can reason over — profiles, posts and reels, comments, followers, stories, music and more.
Use cases
Ask in plain English. Your AI picks the connectors, runs them and hands back the answer.
Brands and agencies
“Find 30 skincare creators in Australia with 20k–200k followers, check their engagement rate and flag any with suspicious followers.”
A ranked shortlist with engagement rate, audience quality and contact details.
Social media managers
“Compare the last 50 posts from @glossier and @rarebeauty. Which formats and hooks get the most engagement?”
A format-by-format benchmark and the ten posts worth learning from.
Sales teams and agencies
“Find 100 Brisbane cafés on Instagram with a public email or phone and score them as leads for our POS product.”
A qualified lead list with contact details and a suggested opening line.
Product and community teams
“Pull every comment on our last five reels and group the complaints, questions and praise.”
Themes with counts and representative quotes, ready for the next stand-up.
Creators and content teams
“What's trending under #pilates this week, and which audio tracks are the top reels using?”
Trending formats, hashtags and sounds to build next week's content plan.
Creators, investors and analysts
“Track @brand's follower growth over the last month and tell me the best time for them to post.”
Growth curve, engagement trend and a best-time-to-post heatmap.
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No. Every Instagram connector works only with publicly visible data, and returns nothing for private accounts.
No. Sourcelane runs the connectors for you. You top up a balance with a card, create an agent key, and your agent calls the connector — there is no Instagram app review, OAuth setup or rate-limit juggling on your side.
Anything that speaks MCP (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf) can connect to the Sourcelane MCP server with one config block. ChatGPT can use it through a Custom GPT Action, and any agent framework can call the REST endpoint directly.
Yes. Every agent key has its own per-call cap, daily and monthly limits, an optional lifetime budget, an allowlist of connectors, and a kill switch.