Claude und Cursor erhalten Lesezugriff auf oeffentliche Instagram-Daten per MCP-URL

If you ask an AI assistant about an Instagram account, it usually guesses. So it can't help with a competitor or a creator you want to research.

We built a remote MCP server for this. You sign in once in the browser, and the assistant gets 20+ tools for public Instagram data: profiles, posts, reels, stories, highlights, comments, hashtags, places and audio.

The server speaks MCP over Streamable HTTP at https://data.fastsocial.co/mcp.

claude mcp add --transport http instagram-data https://data.fastsocial.co/mcp Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Then run /mcp, pick instagram-data and sign in.

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json )

{ "mcpServers": { "instagram-data": { "url": "https://data.fastsocial.co/mcp" } } } Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json )

{ "servers": { "instagram-data": { "type": "http", "url": "https://data.fastsocial.co/mcp" } } } Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Claude app: Settings > Connectors > Add a custom connector > Paste the URL > Leave the OAuth fields empty

The first connection opens a sign-in page: you enter your email, type the code you get, and click Allow. A free plan is created if you don't have one.

If your client can set headers but can't do the browser sign-in, use an API key instead:

claude mcp add --transport http instagram-data https://data.fastsocial.co/mcp --header "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode What you can ask Once connected, normal questions work:

The assistant picks the tool ( instagram_insights, instagram_stories, instagram_similar, instagram_media ) and gets JSON back. Photos and videos come back as downloadable links, not files.

If your client only runs local stdio servers, the same tools are on PyPI as instagram-data-mcp.

If you just want to look at stories without code, the same backend runs our free Instagram story viewer.