# Instagram · OmniGet Docs - URL: https://getomniget.com/docs/instagram - Updated: 2026-10-19 - OmniGet 1.0.0 > Free, open-source yt-dlp GUI for Windows, macOS and Linux. Paste a link to save video, audio and files from 1,000+ sites, or run AI coding agents. --- Superpowers # Instagram Note Instagram arrives in OmniGet 1.0.1. Version 1.0.0, the one you can download today, does not have it yet. 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](https://getomniget.com/docs/global-downloader). Warning This uses Instagram’s website the way you would, not an official API. Instagram may ask you to confirm it is you, limit the account or block automated use. Keep the pace human. ## Feed, Saved and Search - **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](https://getomniget.com/docs/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. [Previous**← X**](https://getomniget.com/docs/x) [Next**TikTok →**](https://getomniget.com/docs/tiktok)