MCP Server for Instagram Data Extraction

Use Bright Data’s enterprise-grade MCP Server to scrape only public Instagram data. Extract, analyze, and process posts, reels, profiles, hashtags, and comments—fast, reliable, and safe.

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Bright Data MCP for Instagram lets you extract only public Instagram content, stories, reels, hashtags, and comments—never private data or messages.
Search
  • Find public posts, hashtags, and reels by keyword or tag
  • Extract post URLs, captions, likes, and comments
  • Get user handles, timestamps, images, video links
Crawl
  • Crawl only public profiles for posts, reels, and stories
  • Export public comments, tags, and engagement metrics
  • Monitor trending content, follower growth, and top hashtags
Access
  • Access public content across countries and topics
  • Bypass anti-bot & open-access limits, never private zones
  • Gather only available, legal open data—never DMs
Navigate
  • Automate viewing posts, reels, story highlights at scale
  • Bulk-extract comments, likes & shares from public data
  • Mimic public user flow—no login, no private data ever
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Instagram MCP Server FAQs

The Instagram MCP Server is a specialized integration that empowers your AI agents to access real-time public data from Instagram. It acts as a bridge, allowing tools like Claude, Cursor, and custom LLMs to search, extract, and interact with Instagram content dynamically.

Built on Bright Data's robust infrastructure, the Web MCP Server handles the complexities of web data extraction behind the scenes. It automatically manages proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and unlocking technology to ensure your AI receives structured, reliable data from Instagram without getting blocked.

The data is completely real-time. Unlike databases that can become outdated, the Instagram MCP fetches live content directly from the source at the moment of request, ensuring your AI agents act on the most current pricing, posts, or profile information available.

Yes! We offer a generous free tier that includes 5,000 requests per month. This allows developers and businesses to test the Instagram MCP Server, build prototypes, and perform light data extraction at no cost before scaling up.

Yes. Beyond retrieving static data, the server supports full browser automation. Your agents can be instructed to navigate Instagram pages, click buttons, handle infinite scrolling, and even take screenshots, enabling complex workflows that simulate real user behavior.

You have the choice. You can use our fully managed Remote MCP for instant access with zero infrastructure setup, or you can deploy the Local MCP if you require on-premise control and custom environment configurations for your Instagram projects.

Our Web MCP Server is designed for seamless integration with popular AI clients. It works natively with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and diverse agentic frameworks like LangChain, making it easy to add Instagram data capabilities to your existing workflows.

Rapid mode is free and ideal for everyday tasks like SERP lookups and basic text extraction. Pro mode unlocks premium capabilities for Instagram, including deep structured data extraction and advanced browser automation tools designed for large-scale production environments.

Absolutely. The Instagram MCP Server is built with strict adherence to data protection regulations, including GDPR and CCPA. We only access publicly available web data, ensuring your AI operations remain compliant and ethically sound.

The server delivers data in clean, AI-ready formats. Depending on your specific needs, you can retrieve Instagram data as structured JSON objects for precise analysis or as simplified Markdown text optimized for LLM context windows.