Connect Instagram
Link your Instagram account once, then write and schedule posts straight from Sosyabot.
Before you start
- You need an Instagram professional account — Business or Creator, not a personal one. You can switch in the Instagram app under Settings → Account type.
- Normally you do not need a Facebook Page — you sign in on Instagram itself. Some installations still connect Instagram the older way, through Facebook; if that is yours, the pop-up opens Facebook and the account does have to be linked to a Page. See the note under the steps.
Step by step
Open Channels
Go to Channels in Sosyabot and click Add channel.
Pick Instagram
Choose Instagram from the list, then click Connect.
Sign in to Instagram
A pop-up opens on Instagram. Sign in and approve the access Sosyabot asks for.
Done
Your Instagram account now shows up in Channels and is ready to post to.
If the pop-up opens Facebook instead
Instagram can also be connected the older way — through a Facebook Page. If your pop-up shows Facebook rather than Instagram, that's the route your Sosyabot is set up for: sign in with the Facebook account that manages your Instagram, then pick the Facebook Page and the Instagram account you want. On that route your Instagram account does have to be linked to a Facebook Page. Which route you get is your administrator's setting, not something you choose.
Good to know
- Personal Instagram accounts can't be used. Switch to Business or Creator first, then connect.
- On the Instagram route, Sosyabot renews the access in the background, so you normally stay connected. On the Facebook Page route there is nothing to renew — that permission does not expire.
- A connection can still stop working (a password change, for example). If that happens, just connect again.
- On the Facebook Page route, if you manage several Pages, Sosyabot adds one channel for each linked Instagram account it finds.
If it doesn't connect
- Check that your Instagram is a Business or Creator account. A personal account is refused.
- If you were sent to Facebook, sign in with the Facebook account that actually manages that Instagram, and make sure the two are linked.
- If the channel later asks you to reconnect, open it and run the connect steps again.