Automate Instagram with Perplexity Computer

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

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

Post to Instagram in Seconds

Terminal

# Install the skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# 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.

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Collaborator Tags

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

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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 Perplexity Computer?

Perplexity Computer is a general-purpose digital worker that decomposes high-level goals into subtasks, spawns specialized sub-agents across 19 AI models, and delivers finished results — from code to marketing campaigns.

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Task Decomposition

Perplexity Computer breaks complex social media campaigns into subtasks and handles each one with specialized sub-agents for maximum quality.

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Multi-Model

Spawns sub-agents across 19 different AI models, picking the best model for each subtask — content writing, image generation, scheduling, and more.

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End-to-End Delivery

From content ideation to final publishing — Perplexity Computer handles the complete social media workflow and delivers finished results.

How Postiz Works with Perplexity Computer

Perplexity Computer discovers Postiz commands through its tool integration system. It can decompose a social media campaign into subtasks and use Postiz to execute each one.

✓Install Postiz Agent and set your POSTIZ_API_KEY
✓Perplexity Computer discovers Postiz through tool integration
✓Tasks are decomposed across specialized sub-agents
✓Each sub-agent picks the best model for its subtask
✓Results are delivered end-to-end with verification

Install Postiz

# Install the Postiz skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Perplexity Computer discovers Postiz
# through its tool integration system
# and decomposes tasks across sub-agents

Instagram Posting with Perplexity Computer

Give Perplexity Computer a high-level goal and it decomposes it into subtasks, discovers your integrations via Postiz, and delivers a complete posting workflow.

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From Any Chat App

Give Perplexity Computer a high-level go...

Send a message to Perplexity Computer from your favorite chat app. It runs as a persistent daemon on your machine, so it picks up your message, discovers your Instagram account via Postiz, uploads the photo, and schedules the post — all while you go about your day.

Perplexity Computer

You: Create a week-long Instagram
  campaign for our product launch

Perplexity Computer:
  Breaking this into subtasks:
  1. Research trending topics
  2. Draft 5 posts with varied angles
  3. Find your Instagram integration
  4. Schedule posts across the week

  All 5 posts scheduled!
  Mon-Fri at 10:00 AM.

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Scheduled & Proactive

Perplexity Computer can execute rec...

Perplexity Computer supports cron-based heartbeat tasks. Set up a recurring job that checks a folder for new photos and posts them to Instagram automatically — no manual trigger needed.

Perplexity Computer Task

Tell Perplexity Computer:

"Every Monday morning, create a
week's worth of Instagram content
based on trending topics in our
industry. Schedule one post per day
at 10 AM. Use engaging hooks and
relevant hashtags."

Perplexity Computer will:
  1. Research current trends
  2. Generate 5 unique posts
  3. Schedule via Postiz
  4. Report results back

Why Perplexity Computer + Postiz for Instagram

Perplexity Computer makes Postiz a natural fit for your Instagram workflow. The agent discovers all available commands and autonomously chains them together.

✓Decomposes complex Instagram campaigns into optimized subtasks
✓19 AI models — picks the best one for each part of the workflow
✓End-to-end delivery from ideation to scheduled publishing
✓Research-powered content based on real-time trending topics
✓Cross-post to Instagram + other platforms in a single request
✓Available to Perplexity Max subscribers

SKILL.md (auto-discovered)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including Instagram
metadata:
  perplexity-computer:
    requirements:
      env:
        - 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