Automate Instagram with Grok Bot

Schedule feed posts, stories, and reels, manage trial reels and collaborator tags, and grow your Instagram presence — all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup Guide Marketplace

Please make sure there is always a human in the loop.

Post to Instagram in Seconds

Grok Bot

# In any Bot chat, add the Postiz plugin
/add-plugin postiz

# Store POSTIZ_API_KEY as a Bot secret when prompted.
# Your Bot can now run Postiz on its cloud computer:

# Find your Instagram integration
postiz integrations:list

# Upload an image
RESULT=$(postiz upload photo.jpg)
IMAGE_URL=$(echo "$RESULT" | jq -r '.path')

# Schedule an Instagram feed post
postiz posts:create \
  -c "New post! #photography #instagood" \
  -m "$IMAGE_URL" \
  -s "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"post_type":"post"}' \
  -i "your-instagram-integration-id"

Instagram-Specific Features

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Feed Posts

Publish photo and video posts to your Instagram feed with captions, hashtags, and location tags. Schedule for optimal engagement times.

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Stories

Share ephemeral content with Instagram Stories. Upload images or videos that disappear after 24 hours.

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Trial Reels

Test content with trial reels that have limited initial reach. Graduate to full distribution manually or automatically based on performance.

🤝

Collaborator Tags

Tag collaborators on your posts to co-author content. The post appears on both profiles, doubling your reach.

📊

Graduation Strategy

Control how trial reels graduate to full reach. Choose MANUAL for hands-on control or SS_PERFORMANCE for automatic promotion.

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Scheduled Posting

Schedule posts and stories with precise timestamps. Plan your Instagram content calendar and let Postiz handle the publishing.

How It Works

Find Your Instagram Integration

List your connected accounts and grab your Instagram integration ID. You can also fetch available settings to see what options are supported.

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Filter for Instagram
postiz integrations:list | jq \
  '.[] | select(.identifier=="instagram")'

# Get Instagram settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <instagram-id>

Upload Your Media

Upload your photo or video to get a public URL. Instagram requires media to be accessible via HTTPS. Supports JPG, PNG, MP4, and more.

Upload

# Upload image and extract URL
RESULT=$(postiz upload photo.jpg)
IMAGE_URL=$(echo "$RESULT" | jq -r '.path')

echo $IMAGE_URL
# https://uploads.postiz.com/photo.jpg

Create Your Post

Schedule an Instagram post with your media, caption, hashtags, and platform-specific settings like post type, trial reels, and collaborators.

Post Creation

postiz posts:create \
  -c "Sunset vibes #photography #nature" \
  -m "$IMAGE_URL" \
  -s "2025-03-01T18:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "post_type": "post",
    "collaborators": [
      {"label": "photographer_friend"}
    ]
  }' \
  -i "instagram-id"

Instagram Settings Reference

Every Instagram post accepts these platform-specific settings via the --settings flag.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "instagram" or "instagram-standalone"
`post_type`	string	Yes	Content type: "post" (feed) or "story"
`is_trial_reel`	boolean	No	Post as a trial reel with limited initial reach
`graduation_strategy`	string	No	Trial reel graduation: "MANUAL" or "SS_PERFORMANCE" (auto based on performance)
`collaborators`	array	No	List of collaborator objects, e.g. [{"label":"username"}]

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common Instagram posting scenarios.

Simple Feed Post

settings.json

{
  "post_type": "post"
}

Story Post

settings.json

{
  "post_type": "story"
}

Trial Reel with Auto Graduation

settings.json

{
  "post_type": "post",
  "is_trial_reel": true,
  "graduation_strategy": "SS_PERFORMANCE"
}

Collaborator Post

settings.json

{
  "post_type": "post",
  "collaborators": [
    {"label": "cofounder"},
    {"label": "designer_jane"}
  ]
}

What is Grok Bot?

Grok Bot is the always-on AI teammate product from xAI and Cursor. You create named Bots, give each one a job, and they work 24/7 on their own persistent cloud computer — with a browser, a filesystem, and a terminal — pinging you only when they need approval.

Grok Bot is not the Grok chatbot. Grok is the assistant you chat with on X and grok.com. Grok Bot is a separate app for delegating real, multi-step work — like running your Instagram presence with Postiz.

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Own Cloud Computer

Every Bot gets a persistent cloud machine with a terminal. Postiz runs there, so your Instagram posts go out even when your laptop is closed.

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Routines

Turn any task into a routine that runs on a schedule. Your Bot drafts, schedules, and reports on Instagram content without being asked twice.

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Approvals Built In

Bots ask before changing external systems. Review the Instagram posts your Bot prepared in Postiz, approve, and it publishes.

How Postiz Works with Grok Bot

Postiz is listed on the Grok Bot plugin marketplace. Add it to a Bot and the Postiz skill, CLI, and command reference are installed on its cloud computer — the Bot can then manage your Instagram workflow on its own.

✓Type /add-plugin postiz in a Bot chat, or add it from the Plugins sidebar
✓Store your POSTIZ_API_KEY as a Bot secret when prompted
✓The Bot reads the bundled SKILL.md and learns every Postiz command
✓Works in every Bot on your shared workspace, on desktop and iPhone
✓Approvals keep a human in the loop before anything is published

Grok Bot

# 1. Add the plugin to your Bot
/add-plugin postiz

# 2. Store your Postiz API key
#    as a secret when prompted

# 3. Ask your Bot to verify
You: Find my Instagram channel in Postiz

Bot: Running postiz integrations:list
  Found your Instagram integration.
  All Postiz commands are ready.

Instagram Posting with Grok Bot

Your Bot reads the Postiz skill, discovers your Instagram integration, and handles the entire posting workflow — from content creation to scheduling — on its own cloud computer.

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Message Your Bot

Desktop, iPhone, or a group chat

Send a message to your Bot from the desktop app or your iPhone. It runs on its own cloud computer, so it picks up your message, discovers your Instagram account via Postiz, uploads your media, and schedules the post — then asks you to approve before it goes live.

Grok Bot

You: Post to Instagram about our new
  feature launch, schedule for tomorrow
  at 9am

Bot: Got it! Here's the plan:
  1. Find your Instagram integration
  2. Compose your post content
  3. Schedule for tomorrow 9:00 AM

  Done! Post scheduled successfully.
  Post ID: abc-123

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Routines

Recurring work on a schedule

Save the task as a routine. Your Bot runs it on a schedule from the cloud, checks for new content, and posts it to Instagram automatically — no manual trigger needed.

Grok Bot routine

Routine: daily-instagram-posts
Schedule: Weekdays at 9:00 AM

Instructions:
  Check ~/content/posts on your cloud
  computer for new .txt files. For
  each one, read the content and
  schedule a post to Instagram for
  today at noon via Postiz. Move
  posted files to ~/content/published
  and send me a summary.

Why Grok Bot + Postiz for Instagram

Grok Bot makes Postiz a natural fit for your Instagram workflow. The Bot reads the plugin's skill, chains the right commands together, and keeps running from the cloud.

✓Official plugin — one command install from the marketplace
✓Always on — posts to Instagram from the cloud while you are away
✓Terminal access runs Postiz commands directly on the Bot's computer
✓Routines for hands-free daily posting
✓Cross-post to Instagram + other platforms in a single conversation
✓Approvals keep a human in the loop before publishing

SKILL.md (bundled in the plugin)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including Instagram
metadata:
  grok-bot:
    plugin: postiz
    secrets:
      - POSTIZ_API_KEY
    binaries:
      - postiz
---

# Available Commands
- postiz integrations:list
- postiz integrations:settings <id>
- postiz posts:create
- postiz upload <file>
- postiz analytics:platform <id>

# Instagram Settings
post_type, is_trial_reel,
graduation_strategy,
collaborators

Also Works with Claude Code

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands — including Anthropic's Claude Code.

Claude Code

by Anthropic

Claude reads the SKILL.md file to learn all available Postiz commands, then autonomously discovers your Instagram integration, uploads your photo, applies post type and collaborator settings, and schedules the post.

Claude Code

> Post my product photo to Instagram
  as a feed post with collaborator tags,
  schedule for tomorrow evening

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz upload ./product.jpg
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Launching something new!" \
    -m "uploaded-url" \
    -s "2025-03-02T18:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"post_type":"post",
      "collaborators":[
        {"label":"cofounder"}
      ]}' \
    -i "instagram-id"

Instagram + Other Platforms

Schedule the same content to Instagram and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Post to Instagram and Facebook simultaneously
postiz posts:create \
  -c "New product photo! #launch #startup" \
  -m "$IMAGE_URL" \
  -s "2025-03-01T18:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"post_type":"post"}' \
  -i "instagram-id,facebook-id"

# Batch schedule a week of Instagram content
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Day $day of our launch week! #countdown" \
    -m "day${day}-image-url" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T18:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"post_type":"post"}' \
    -i "instagram-id"
done