Social Data
Instagram Posts MCP
Use Instagram Posts in your AI assistant to retrieve the available information. Explore supported inputs and use cases below.
Instagram Posts AI Prompts & Use Cases
After connecting this MCP tool to your AI assistant, you can ask the questions below. Replace bracketed placeholders with your own inputs and use the supported values in Arguments.
New to Nexscope MCP? Follow the connection guide, then use the prompts below. The Integration and Parameters & Response tabs contain the connection steps, call example, and technical reference.
1. Review Instagram Posts
Prompt: Retrieve Instagram Posts for [account handle]. Summarize only the information actually returned and preserve source links when available. Report private, restricted, missing or partial results explicitly; missing values are not zero.
2. Collect A Bounded Set Of Results
Prompt: Retrieve Instagram Posts for [account handle] across at most two pages within my approved credit budget. Use only the continuation information actually returned, with the same query and filters. Stop at the documented page limit, an absent continuation, an end indicator or a repeated page. Keep source references and report that the collection is bounded, not exhaustive.
3. Review Items With Verified Play Counts
Prompt: Use Instagram Posts for [account handle]. Require the documented numeric play-count check. Keep a genuine zero distinct from a missing count and report a failed check rather than inventing counts.
4. Prepare A Snapshot Of Returned Public Counts
Prompt: Retrieve Instagram Posts for [account handle] and make a compact table of the public counts actually returned. Keep each count attached to its item or account, label estimates and preserve the observation time when supplied. Do not invent engagement rates, historical growth, unique audience size or missing values.
5. Create A Brief From Returned Text
Prompt: Retrieve Instagram Posts for [account handle] and prepare a brief about [my research question] using only text present in the response. Cite the corresponding source links when returned, distinguish quotations from interpretation, and report insufficient text. Do not claim to have read linked pages or infer private information.
What You Need to Provide
Use only the documented public inputs. Private, restricted, missing and partial results remain distinct; missing metrics are not zero.
Check the current Nexscope price before running the request. Optional enrichment, downloads, transcription and additional pages can incur charges. These examples do not execute a request.
Step 1 · Connect
Connect Your AI Assistant
Connect a compatible MCP client to Nexscope, then select this tool from your assistant. Use the connection settings in your client to complete authentication.
POST https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp
MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-11-25
Content-Type: application/jsonAuthentication
Use OAuth 2.1 Authorization Code with PKCE and the mcp:tools scope. API keys remain supported as a compatibility option.
Authorization: Bearer nk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxUsing an API key? Get your key from API Access and include it in the Authorization header shown above.
Call this MCP tool
social_instagram_postshttps://api.nexscope.ai/mcptools/callInitialize an MCP 2025-11-25 Streamable HTTP session at https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp, then use tools/call.
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": "social-instagram-posts-1",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "social_instagram_posts",
"arguments": {
"handle": "scrapecreators"
}
}
}MCP 2025-11-25 · Streamable HTTPProgress is delivered on the original POST SSE response. GET SSE carries notifications; reconnecting must query existing asynchronous work rather than submit again.
Arguments
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
handle | string | required | handle Example: scrapecreators |
require_play_counts | boolean | optional | Only the literal query value 'true' enables this check. It requires play_count on each returned video post; a real 0 is valid. It does not require ig_play_count or view counts, or counts on photos. If a required play_count is missing or null, the request returns an error without charging credits instead of a paid partial success. With the default false, counts remain best-effort: usable posts are still billable even with missing play counts. Retrying does not guarantee that Instagram will return the missing counts. [Why counts can be missing](https://scrapecreators.com/blog/instagram-play-counts-missing). |
trim | boolean | optional | Set to true to get a trimmed response |
cursor | string | optional | Opaque single-page cursor, at most 65536 UTF-8 bytes. |
Response fields
Treat structuredContent as the programmatic API response payload.
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
code | integer | required | 0 means accepted or successful; nonzero is a platform error. |
cost | string | required | Elapsed milliseconds, never credits; -1 outside web requests. |
data | any | required | Data value used by this API operation. |
msg | string | null | required | Msg value used by this API operation. |
time | string | required | Server local time: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss. |
traceId | string | null | required | Trace id value used by this API operation. |
ts | string | required | Epoch milliseconds. |
Any of option 1 — requires platform, resourceStatus, fetchedAt, sourceFetchedAt, usage, items, nextCursor, hasMore
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data | object | required | Data value used by this API operation. |
data.fetchedAt | string | required | Fetched at value used by this API operation. Format: date-time |
data.hasMore | boolean | required | Has more value used by this API operation. |
data.items | array | required | Items value used by this API operation. |
data.items[] | object | required | Item in data items. |
data.items[].author | any | required | Author value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].caption | any | required | Caption value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].commentCount | any | required | Comment count value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].id | any | required | Id value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].likeCount | any | required | Like count value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].media | array | required | Media value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].media[] | object | required | Item in data items[] media. |
data.items[].media[].thumbnailUrl | any | required | Thumbnail url value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].media[].type | string | required | Type value used by this API operation. Allowed: IMAGE, VIDEO, UNKNOWN |
data.items[].media[].url | any | required | Url value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].publishedAt | any | required | Published at value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].type | string | required | Type value used by this API operation. Allowed: POST, REEL, UNKNOWN |
data.items[].url | any | required | Url value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].viewCount | any | required | View count value used by this API operation. |
data.nextCursor | any | required | Next cursor value used by this API operation. |
data.platform | string | required | Platform value used by this API operation. Allowed: instagram, youtube, reddit, pinterest |
data.resourceStatus | string | required | Resource status value used by this API operation. Allowed: AVAILABLE, PARTIAL, PRIVATE, RESTRICTED, NOT_FOUND, NO_TRANSCRIPT, UNKNOWN |
data.sourceFetchedAt | any | required | Source fetched at value used by this API operation. |
data.usage | object | required | Usage value used by this API operation. |
data.usage.billingStatus | string | required | Billing status value used by this API operation. Allowed: NOT_CHARGED, SETTLED, UNKNOWN |
data.usage.chargedCredits | any | required | Charged credits value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1 — requires id, handle, name, url
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].author | object | required | Author value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].author.handle | any | required | Handle value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].author.id | any | required | Id value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].author.name | any | required | Name value used by this API operation. |
data.items[].author.url | any | required | Url value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].author.handle | string | required | Handle value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].author.handle | null | required | Handle value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].author.id | string | required | Id value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].author.id | null | required | Id value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].author.name | string | required | Name value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].author.name | null | required | Name value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].author.url | string | required | Url value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].author.url | null | required | Url value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].author | null | required | Author value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].caption | string | required | Caption value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].caption | null | required | Caption value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].commentCount | number | required | Comment count value used by this API operation. Minimum: 0 |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].commentCount | null | required | Comment count value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].id | string | required | Id value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].id | null | required | Id value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].likeCount | number | required | Like count value used by this API operation. Minimum: 0 |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].likeCount | null | required | Like count value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].media[].thumbnailUrl | string | required | Thumbnail url value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].media[].thumbnailUrl | null | required | Thumbnail url value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].media[].url | string | required | Url value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].media[].url | null | required | Url value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].publishedAt | string | required | Published at value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].publishedAt | null | required | Published at value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].url | string | required | Url value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].url | null | required | Url value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].viewCount | number | required | View count value used by this API operation. Minimum: 0 |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.items[].viewCount | null | required | View count value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.nextCursor | string | required | Next cursor value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.nextCursor | null | required | Next cursor value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.sourceFetchedAt | string | required | Source fetched at value used by this API operation. Format: date-time |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.sourceFetchedAt | null | required | Source fetched at value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.usage.chargedCredits | number | required | Charged credits value used by this API operation. Minimum: 0 |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.usage.chargedCredits | null | required | Charged credits value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data | null | required | Data value used by this API operation. |
Workflow Guide
Workflow example, not a verified API response.
Your Goal
Retrieve Instagram Posts for [account handle]. Summarize only the information actually returned and preserve source links when available. Report private, restricted, missing or partial results explicitly; missing values are not zero.
Suggested Steps
Provide the documented public identifiers or search inputs. The assistant can then make the requested lookup and organize only the returned evidence. Missing or restricted results must be reported explicitly; no actual lookup or returned metrics are claimed here.
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