instadata

instadata is a thin local bridge to the hosted HasData Instagram MCP server, which returns public Instagram content as JSON. Point it at a handle and it can bring back that account's profile — full name, biography, external link, profile picture, follower and following counts, and the verified and private flags — or the account's latest posts, with captions, hashtags, mentions, like and comment counts, play counts on videos and Reels, media URLs, and timestamps. Give it a post or reel URL instead and it returns the comments on that post, each with its text, timestamp, like and reply counts, and its author.

The bridge stores nothing and scrapes nothing itself. It answers the tool list locally, exactly as captured from the live endpoint, and forwards each tool call upstream, handing the reply back untouched. The whole surface is three read-only lookups over public content: nothing is posted, messaged, followed, or stored, and no email or phone data appears anywhere in it.

Tools

• hasdata_instagram_profile_getInstagramProfile — one public profile by handle. Required: handle (the username, without the @). Returns full name, biography, external link, profile picture URL, followers count, following count, and the verified/private flags.

• hasdata_instagram_posts_getInstagramPosts — the latest posts of a public account. Required: handle. Optional: limit (posts per request, defaults to 12 upstream) and nextPageToken to walk older posts. Private accounts and handles that do not exist return an error field instead of posts.

• hasdata_instagram_comments_getInstagramComments — the comments on a public post or reel. Required: url (a /p/, /reel/ or /tv/ link, with or without the username segment). Optional: nextPageToken for later pages and includeMusic to also return the reel's sound (audio ID, artist and song title) on the first page. The first page also carries the post itself, including carousel items; later pages return comments only.

Related MCP server: instagram-claude-mcp

Configuration

• HASDATA_INSTAGRAM_MCP_URL (optional) — override the upstream endpoint. Defaults to https://mcp.hasdata.com/mcp?apis=instagram. (The override hook is this rebuild's own labelled reconstruction.)

• HASDATA_API_KEY (optional) — when set, every upstream request carries an x-api-key: <value> header, for the caller's own HasData API key. When it is not set, no key header is sent. (The header name and the env name are pinned by the original's registry record; forwarding the key from this env var is a labelled reconstruction — the original surface was captured keyless.)

Forwarding mechanics

The first tool call opens a streamable HTTP session upstream: a JSON-RPC initialize request (protocolVersion 2025-03-26, clientInfo name instadata), then a notifications/initialized notification, then the tools/call request carrying the caller's arguments unchanged. If the upstream answers initialize with an Mcp-Session-Id header, that value rides on every later request of the session, which is reused for the life of the process. Replies may arrive as plain JSON or as server-sent events; both are read.

Successful upstream results pass through verbatim, including any isError flag the upstream sets. Failures — a JSON-RPC error, a non-2xx status, an unreadable response, or a request that cannot be completed — come back as an isError result whose text starts with instadata error: (this rendering is this rebuild's own labelled reconstruction).

CLI

Each tool is also a subcommand taking one JSON argument string:

npx @reneturcios/instadata hasdata_instagram_profile_getInstagramProfile '{"handle":"instagram"}'
npx @reneturcios/instadata hasdata_instagram_posts_getInstagramPosts '{"handle":"instagram","limit":5}'
npx @reneturcios/instadata hasdata_instagram_comments_getInstagramComments '{"url":"https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddjis3vETcP/"}'
npx @reneturcios/instadata --version

Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on an isError result, 2 on a usage error.

MCP server

npx -y @reneturcios/instadata mcp

MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instadata": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/instadata", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/instadata
docker run --rm ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/instadata --version

The container's default command is mcp, so the first form is a stdio MCP server; any other arguments reach the CLI normally.

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm test
npm run dev

The test suite runs entirely against a stubbed JSON-RPC upstream — no live network calls.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.