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 YousefNabil-SOC/claude-apex --skill instagram-accessgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YousefNabil-SOC/claude-apexWrote 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/yousefnabil-soc/claude-apex/instagram-access)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yousefnabil-soc/claude-apex/instagram-access"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yousefnabil-soc/claude-apex/instagram-access/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/yousefnabil-soc/claude-apex/instagram-access"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yousefnabil-soc/claude-apex/instagram-access.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00021 | $0.01683 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00842 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00337 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00168 |
Grade A, and why
Instagram Access scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 7d 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.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Instagram Access — Permanent Capability Skill
What This Skill Enables
- Download posts, reels, and stories from any public Instagram profile
- Download from private profiles the logged-in user follows
- Fetch post metadata (caption, likes, comments, date, type)
- Explore profiles (follower count, bio, post count, recent posts)
- Search by hashtag or location
- Download specific posts by shortcode or URL
- Batch scan captions for content categorization
Authentication
First-Time Setup
You need a dedicated Instagram account for scraping (DO NOT use your main account — Instagram may rate-limit or ban scraper accounts). Create a secondary account, then:
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Install instaloader:
pip install instaloader --break-system-packages # Linux/WSL pip install instaloader # Windows/macOS -
Generate a session cookie file (run in a separate terminal, NOT through Claude Code's Bash tool):
instaloader --login <your-scraper-username> -
Instaloader stores the session at:
- Windows:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Instaloader\session-<username>.pg(e.g.C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\Instaloader\session-<username>.pg) - macOS/Linux:
~/.config/instaloader/session-<username>.pg
- Windows:
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Record the username and session path in your project's configuration (NOT in this skill — keep credentials out of version control).
If Session Expires
The session eventually expires. When instaloader throws LoginRequiredException or ConnectionException with "redirected to login":
- Tell the user: "Instagram session expired. Please re-authenticate."
- User runs in a separate terminal (NOT through Claude Code's Bash):
instaloader --login <username> - User enters password interactively (Bash tool cannot handle password prompts)
- Session file is refreshed automatically
- Resume operations
NEVER attempt interactive login through the Bash tool. It cannot handle password prompts.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 203 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A a9735fa5f910
Instagram Access is a skill published in the GitHub repository YousefNabil-SOC/claude-apex (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,683 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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