Connect: sign in on instagram.com with a professional (Business or Creator) account. No Facebook Page is needed. Access lasts 60 days; mixetape renews it whenever it posts or reads for the account in the last week, so an account left idle longer must be reconnected.
Posting: videos post as Reels. Instagram cannot schedule through its API, so mixetape
prepares the Reel leadMinutes early (15 by default) — Instagram uploads and processes it —
and publishes it itself at scheduledAt.
Metadata
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
caption |
At most 2,200 characters, 30 hashtags and 20 @mentions; defaults to the post caption |
thumbnailUrl |
Public https JPEG cover, set at creation |
coverFrameMs |
Or a cover frame, in milliseconds from the start |
shareToFeed |
Also show it in the feed grid (default true) |
firstComment |
Posted as the account’s own comment once the Reel is public |
After it is up
Read comments, reply as the account, and hide comments (Instagram has no review queue and cannot ban from a comment). Reel insights are lifetime totals. The caption cannot be changed through the API once the Reel is up.
Limits
- 100 posts through the API per account in 24 hours.