Agent skill · data analytics · mvanhorn
pp-instagram
Every Instagram Business metric across all your brand accounts Trigger phrases: `compare my instagram brands`, `instagram follower growth`, `best time to post on instagram`, `top instagram posts this month`, `instagram competitor analytics`, `use instagram-pp-cli`, `run instagram analytics`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds niche commands for Instagram Business metrics that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires instagram-pp-cli installed locally. About 8k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT. This file is a verbatim mirror of library/social-and-messaging/instagram/SKILL.md, regenerated post-merge by tools/generate-skills/. Hand-edits here are silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead. See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli-skills/". --> Instagram — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the instagram-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer: 2. Verify: instagram-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure $GOPATH/bin (or $HOME/go/bin) is on $PATH. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer): If --version reports "command not found" after install, the install step did not put the binary on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. A local-first analytics CLI for the Instagram Graph API built for managers who run several owned Business/Creator accounts. It syncs accounts, media, insights, and competitor snapshots into a queryable SQLite store, then adds the views the official tools lack: rank your brands side by side (compare), follower-growth over time (growth), best-time-to-post, format breakdowns, and competitor deltas. Agent-native output, offline search, and typed exit codes throughout. When to Use This CLI Use this CLI when an agent or operator needs analytics across multiple owned Instagram Business/Creator accounts: comparing brands, tracking follower growth and engagement trends over time, ranking posts, analyzing content formats, or benchmarking competitors. It is the right tool when the question spans accounts or needs history the Graph API's short windows cannot answer. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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