instagram · fetchsolari:readWorks with any signed-in SOLARI account.
solari fetch instagram posts
Collect one Instagram account's posts into the catalog.
- MCP tool
- solari_fetch_instagram_posts
- CLI
- solari fetch instagram posts
- Access
- solari:readWorks with any signed-in SOLARI account.Works with any signed-in SOLARI account.
- Required plan
- Free
- Credit
- 0
Overview
Collect posts for one Instagram account into the SOLARI catalog by exact username. This is not a post listing. If the handle is already stored, nothing is scraped.
When to use it — When catalog posts does not know an exact handle you already have.
What comes back — Whether it was ingested, how many posts came back, and the catalog command to read them.
Parameters
- usernamestringrequired
- Instagram username.≤ 64 chars
Response
Response
- ingestedboolean
- true if this call collected it live.
- already_trackedboolean
- true if it was already in the catalog.
- fetched_on_demandboolean
- Same as ingested.
- foundboolean
- false if the handle could not be collected.
- account_iduuid
- The ingested account.
- usernamestring
- Resolved handle.
- totalinteger
- Posts available so far.
- notestring
- What to expect next.
- nextstring
- Catalog command to read the result.
Example
Request
$ solari fetch instagram posts username=innisfreeofficialResponse · Long strings and repeated array entries are trimmed for readability.
{
"ingested": false,
"already_tracked": true,
"fetched_on_demand": false,
"found": true,
"account_id": "018cabce-14cc-7544-8890-7811ec33ef74",
"username": "innisfreeofficial",
"total": 12,
"note": "Already in the SOLARI catalog. Nothing was scraped.",
"next": "solari catalog instagram account posts username=innisfreeofficial"
}As an MCP call
{
"name": "solari_fetch_instagram_posts",
"arguments": {
"username": "innisfreeofficial"
}
}Notes
- Do not use this to list stored posts. Use catalog instagram account posts for that.
- A first-time ingest can take several seconds. Only recent posts exist until the crawl finishes.
Related tools
- solari_fetch_instagram_accountIngest one Instagram handle into the catalog.
- solari_catalog_instagram_account_postsPosts from an Instagram account.
- solari_catalog_instagram_account_searchFind collected Instagram accounts by username, name, or a phrase in their bio. Use this to get an account_id.
Machine-readable: /docs/tools/fetch-instagram-posts.md