Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill instagram-apigit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/instagram-api)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/instagram-api"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/instagram-api/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/instagram-api"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/instagram-api.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00153 | $0.02294 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00061 | $0.00918 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00459 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00229 |
Grade A, and why
instagram-api scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \ Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- instagram-api — 92% identical, 34 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Instagram API
Instagram data on demand: profile lookup by @handle, posts, reels, stories, tagged posts, followers and followings, hashtag and location feeds, audio/music feeds, and post comments — one plain HTTP GET per call, paid as you go. No login, no session cookies, no headless browser, no Graph API business verification.
Base URL: https://instagram.fetcher.sh
Quick reference
| Base URL | https://instagram.fetcher.sh |
| Auth | Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... or x402 (USDC) |
| Price | $0.004/call (flat) |
| Endpoints | 16, all GET |
| MCP | https://instagram.fetcher.sh/mcp |
| Machine-readable | /openapi.json · /llms.txt · /skill.md |
Which endpoint do I need?
| I want to... | Call |
|---|---|
| Look up a profile by @handle | GET /api/user/handle/{handle} |
| Search accounts by name | GET /api/user/search |
| Get a user's posts, reels, or stories | GET /api/user/{id}/posts / /reels / /stories |
| Get a user's followers or followings | GET /api/user/{id}/followers / /followings |
| Look up a post by its share-URL shortcode | GET /api/post/code/{code} |
| Get a post's comments | GET /api/post/{id}/comments |
| Find posts under a hashtag | GET /api/hashtag/{name}/posts |
| Find posts tagged at a location | GET /api/location/{id}/posts |
Full param details for every row: references/endpoints.md.
Authentication
Two ways to pay, same data — full mechanics in the fetcher
skill:
# 1. Prepaid credits (recommended — get a key at https://fetcher.sh/topup
# or via POST /api/credits/topup, see the fetcher skill)
export FETCHER_API_KEY="bby_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
"https://instagram.fetcher.sh/api/user/handle/nasa"
# 2. x402 pay-per-call — omit the header; a GET with no payment returns 402
# with machine-readable payment requirements (USDC on Base, Polygon,
# Arbitrum, Monad, or Solana). @x402/fetch signs and retries automatically.
What ships with it
4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 229 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A a91726cc1899
instagram-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 2,294 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-01.
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