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Scheduling for Instagram

What Instagram asks of a connected account, the limits its official API enforces, and which of them this product has built against so far.

Nothing publishes to Instagram yet

No connector has passed its definition of done, and none is verified in production. This page describes what the platform requires and what this product intends to support. It does not describe a working scheduler.

What Instagram requires

Account type
A professional Instagram account, business or creator.
Platform restriction
Instagram content publishing is available for professional accounts only. A consumer account cannot be published to by any application, including this one. Publishing uses the official container and publish sequence, and Post Array confirms the final state rather than reporting the upload as success.
API cost
No per operation charge. Meta app review and business verification are required.

Official API documentation Researched August 4, 2026

Platform policy Researched August 4, 2026

Limits Instagram enforces

Read for a freshly connected account with no elevated eligibility. A platform can raise or lower any of these without telling anyone, which is why each set carries the date it was read.

Body text
2,200 characters
Title field
Unavailable
How characters are counted
By grapheme, so an emoji made of several code points still costs one character.
How links are counted
A link costs exactly the characters it occupies.
Formatting marks
Published as plain characters
Images per post
10 files
Videos per post
1 file
Video length
Between 3 seconds and 15 minutes
Largest image
8.4 MB
Largest animated image
Unavailable
Largest video
1.1 GB
Largest document
Unavailable
Alternative text
Unavailable
Accepted file types
image/jpeg, video/mp4, and video/quicktime

Official platform documentation Researched August 4, 2026

What is built for Instagram

Generated from the connector registry, not written here. "Not offered by the platform" is a fact about the platform and is final. "Not built yet" is a fact about this product and is the honest default while no connector has passed its definition of done.

Text posts
Needs platform reviewProfessional accounts only. A consumer account cannot be published to by any application.Official source Researched August 4, 2026
Images
Needs platform reviewRequires Meta app review and business verification.Official source Researched August 4, 2026
Carousels
Not built yet
Video
Not built yet
Documents
Not offered by the platformThis platform has no document post type.
Threads
Not offered by the platformThis platform has no native multi post sequence.
Alt text
Not built yet
Destination selection
Not offered by the platformThis platform has no destination concept such as a Page, board or community.
Privacy controls
Not built yet
Custom thumbnail
Not built yet
Analytics
Not built yet
Delete a published post
Not built yet
Automation disclosure
Not built yet

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Where to go next

The capability matrix carries every platform and every capability in one table. The use case pages describe the workflows this product is being built around.

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Use cases

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