instagram

82 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By brightdata/skills (GitHub) · coding · 271 stars · scanned at commit 103b4cf

Scrape Instagram profiles, posts, reels and comments as JSON through the Bright Data Scraper API. Use when the user asks for any Instagram data - an account's followers or bio, a post's likes and comments, the recent posts or reels of an account, the comments on a post - or says "instagram scraper", "instagram api", "instagram data". Routes between the CLI (`bdata pipelines run` with the Instagram dataset ids), the Python SDK (`client.search.instagram.*` and `client.scrape.instagram.*`), and th…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 2 places.

skills/instagram/SKILL.md, line 44For the SDK route: `pip install brightdata-sdk`. The SDK reads the token from
skills/instagram/references/sdk.md, line 3`pip install brightdata-sdk`, token in `BRIGHTDATA_API_TOKEN` or a prior

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 1 place.

skills/instagram/SKILL.md, line 52bdata pipelines run gd_l1vikfch901nx3by4 collect_by_url "https://www.instagram.com/nasa/" --pretty

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'instagram' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'instagram' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named instagram already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/brightdata/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '103b4cf933618ffa2fc85281e45dce60421e180d' -- 'skills/instagram' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/instagram' ~/.agents/skills/'instagram' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'instagram' ~/.claude/skills/'instagram' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-08	`103b4cf`	100
2026-11-06	`103b4cf`	82