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Connect Instagram to Codex

  • Can I rerun this in CI?

Have Codex use your Instagram data to find when your audience is most active, then rerun it any time with codex exec. Lemonado connects them in about 1 minute, no API keys needed.

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Why connect Instagram to Codex?

Codex runs in your terminal, its IDE extension and scripts, so what it finds once can be rerun with codex exec instead of redone by hand. Connected through Lemonado, it reads your Instagram reels, saves, reach and follows, so it can find when your audience is most active with today's numbers.

  • All your Instagram data

    Posts and reels, ready to ask about.

  • Always today's numbers

    Profile visits and follows, synced from Instagram automatically, so answers use today's numbers.

  • Connect all your tools

    Questions like "Do organic winners work as ads?" use Instagram and Meta Ads, TikTok Ads at once.

How to connect Instagram to Codex

Before you start

  • A Instagram organic account you can sign in to
  • Codex installed
  • A Lemonado account (the free trial works)
  1. 1

    Connect Instagram organic in Lemonado

    In Lemonado, open Connectors, find Instagram organic and sign in. Connect an Instagram professional (business or creator) account. Personal accounts have no insights.

  2. 2

    Turn on external access

    In the company's settings, open External tools, turn the connection on, choose which sources it can reach and copy the server URL.

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    https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp
  3. 3

    Add Lemonado to your config

    Add this to ~/.codex/config.toml.

    toml
    [mcp_servers.lemonado]
url = "https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp"
  4. 4

    Log in

    Run the login command and finish the sign-in in your browser.

    bash
    codex mcp login lemonado
  5. 5

    Ask Codex about Instagram

    Run codex mcp list, or /mcp inside Codex, to see the server and its tools. Try "Pull last week's Instagram numbers, save them to data/instagram-weekly.csv and give me the codex exec command to refresh it." Or ask: "When should posts go out?" or "How did each post do?"

What can Codex do with Instagram?

Codex reads your Instagram data from your terminal and turns one-off questions into commands you can rerun with codex exec.

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Pull last week's Instagram numbers, save them to data/instagram-weekly.csv and give me the codex exec command to refresh it.

Saved data/instagram-weekly.csv. Run the same prompt with codex exec in a scheduled job and the file refreshes with each week's numbers.

Source: Instagram organic + your code

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Everything an agent needs to set this up, in plain text. Paste this page's link into Codex and ask it to connect you, or copy the block.

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# Connect Instagram organic to Codex (Lemonado MCP)

- Server URL: https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp
- Transport: Streamable HTTP
- Auth: OAuth; the user signs in to Lemonado in the browser. No API keys.
- In Lemonado: connect the Instagram professional account. Connect an Instagram professional (business or creator) account. Personal accounts have no insights.
- In Codex: ~/.codex/config.toml

```toml
[mcp_servers.lemonado]
url = "https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp"
```

If you are Codex, run the setup yourself:

Add the Lemonado MCP server to my Codex config. Append this to ~/.codex/config.toml:
[mcp_servers.lemonado]
url = "https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp"
Then run codex mcp login lemonado so I can sign in, and check that codex mcp list shows it. Once I've signed in, list the Instagram organic accounts Lemonado can reach.

First question to try: "Pull last week's Instagram numbers, save them to data/instagram-weekly.csv and give me the codex exec command to refresh it."

More: https://lemonado.io/integrations/instagram-organic · https://lemonado.io/llms.txt
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, through Lemonado. Connect your Instagram professional account in Lemonado, add Lemonado in ~/.codex/config.toml, and Codex can find when your audience is most active with your live data.

Run codex mcp list. If lemonado shows as not logged in, run codex mcp login lemonado again. In Lemonado, check that Instagram organic is connected and External tools is on for the company. If insights are missing, check the account is a professional account. Instagram only keeps insights for professional accounts.

Yes, if both are connected in Lemonado. One connection reaches every source you allow, so you can ask things like "Do our best organic reels also perform as Meta ads?"

MCP is included in Lemonado's paid plans and in the free trial, so you can try it before you pay.

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