Superpowers

Instagram

The Instagram superpower is an Instagram client that works through your own session in OmniGet’s built-in browser. You read your feed and profiles, like, comment and follow, and you see who does not follow you back, who left between two syncs and which posts did best.

Where it is

Superpowers › Instagram › Open. The card is always shown: there is no switch for it in Settings › Integrations.

After you sign in, the tabs on the left are Feed, Saved, Search, My profile, Audience, Analytics and Monitor.

How to use it

  1. Open Instagram and choose Sign in to Instagram. OmniGet opens Instagram in its own browser window.
  2. Sign in there by hand, the way you always do. OmniGet never sees your password.
  3. Back in OmniGet, choose I already signed in if the screen does not move on by itself, then Continue.

The session stays in the OmniGet browser profile, on this computer. You can also import your usual browser profile in the Global Downloader.

  • Feed shows the posts of your home feed, and Saved the posts you saved on Instagram.
  • On a post you can Like, open the Comments and write one (up to 2,200 characters), Download the media (it goes to your download queue, so a download folder must be set in Settings) and Open in the browser.
  • Search finds accounts and hashtags.
  • Click a name to open a profile, with Follow or Unfollow. My profile opens yours.

Publishing a post, direct messages and stories are not part of this screen. You see only what your own account can already see on Instagram.

Audience

Audience reads your followers and the accounts you follow, and compares each reading with the one before.

  1. Choose Sync. The lists are read at a human pace; when the app pauses, choose Continue. What was read is saved.
  2. Pick a view: Don’t follow back, Unfollowed you, New followers, Fans, Mutuals, Followers, Following, Inactive, Keep list, Hidden or Trend.
  3. Narrow it with Search name, handle or bio, Filters and Quick filters. Save this filter keeps up to 30 of your own.
  4. On a row, Unfollow, Add to keep list (those accounts cannot be unfollowed from here until you remove them) or Hide from the lists.
  5. Export CSV saves the current list.

History starts with your first sync: Don’t follow back shows right away, Unfollowed you and New followers from the second sync on. An unfollow is shown with the two syncs it happened between; the exact moment is not known. Inactive means no post in the last 90 days, checked a few accounts at a time. There is no bulk unfollow: each one is a single click.

When the following list is incomplete

Instagram’s website leaves accounts out of the following list. OmniGet tells you when that happens, with how many accounts were read out of how many your profile shows, and warns that Don’t follow back, Mutuals and Fans are not exact yet. It then searches for the missing accounts slowly; choose Continue when the app says so.

To complete the list at once, choose Import Instagram export. To get the export, open Accounts Center in Instagram, choose Your information and permissions, then Download your information, and select Connections (followers and following). The export is read on your computer. Followers that come only from the export can be incomplete, so sync to confirm who does not follow back.

Instagram lists carry no bio, so Follower interests has little to show here.

Analytics

  1. Leave Account empty for your own account, or type another public one.
  2. Pick Posts to read (20, 50, 100 or 200; 50 by default).
  3. Choose Analyze, then a report: Summary, Posts, Best times, Media, Hashtags, Words, Trend, Outliers or Compare.

Compare takes up to 4 competitors on the same number of newest posts. Export CSV saves the report and Create report writes one HTML file with a Markdown copy. Under More analyses you find Compare periods and Post over time. Since last time sums up what changed since you last looked, and the first one covers the last 7 days.

Numbers a browser session cannot see, such as reach, demographics and hidden like counts, are listed under What a browser session cannot see and are never estimated.

Monitor

  1. Choose New monitor and pick What to monitor: Hashtag or Profile.
  2. Type the hashtag or the username and choose Save.
  3. Choose Check now or Check all now, then read the Posts found, with Unread only and Mark all read.

Instagram has no mentions search a browser session can read, so there is no mentions inbox here. You can keep up to 50 monitors. Check automatically can be Off or every 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, and checks run only while this tab is open or when an agent asks for one. Surge today appears when today has at least 5 posts and more than 3 times the daily average of the last 7 days.

Schedule does not exist for Instagram: publishing from OmniGet is built for X only.

For AI agents

Agents connected through the MCP server get the ig_* tools plus the shared social_* tools. Call social_status first.

  • Reading: ig_feed, ig_saved, ig_search, ig_profile, ig_user_posts, ig_post, ig_comments, ig_followers, ig_following, the audience views, ig_analytics and ig_report.
  • Acting: ig_like, ig_comment and ig_follow.

If you turned on Ask me first (under What other programs can do in Settings › AI & agents), each action waits in the OmniGet window with Approve and Deny. A request expires after 5 minutes and a denial is final for the agent. With or without it, agents are held to 20 actions on Instagram every 10 minutes, at least 4 seconds apart. Captions and comments are outside content, which agents should treat as untrusted.

Common problems

“The Instagram session ended. Sign in again.”

Instagram signed the browser out, or asked you to confirm it is you. Choose Sign in to Instagram and finish what Instagram asks, by hand.

“Instagram asked to slow down.”

Wait for the time the notice gives, then choose Continue. What was read is saved. Do not try to speed it up: the pauses are there to keep the account within what Instagram tolerates.

“Instagram returned clearly fewer accounts than your profile shows”

The list was not compared with the previous one, so nobody is reported as an unfollower by mistake. Sync again later, or choose Use this list anyway if you know the number is right.

“This file is not an Instagram export with the followers and following lists.”

Ask Instagram for a new export and select Connections (followers and following) before downloading it.

“Instagram changed something on its side and OmniGet could not read the answer.”

The client reads Instagram’s website, which changes without notice. Update OmniGet when a new version is out.

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