Instagram Collector

What This Skill Does

The Instagram Collector skill provides a robust mechanism for harvesting public metadata from Instagram profiles to support high-level marketing audits. By leveraging the Apify Instagram Profile Scraper, this skill transforms raw profile data into actionable performance metrics. It retrieves core profile statistics—specifically follower counts and total post volume—and performs deeper analytical calculations including engagement rates and posting frequency. Furthermore, the skill processes the captions of recent posts to perform natural language analysis, identifying the top ten most frequently used hashtags associated with a given handle. The result is a clean, structured JSON object that seamlessly integrates with your existing OpenClaw marketing pipeline.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your local OpenClaw environment, ensure you have your APIFY_API_TOKEN configured as an environment variable in your system settings. Once configured, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/adarshvmore/instagram-collector After installation, the collectInstagram function will be available within your skill library, ready for deployment in automated report generation flows.

Use Cases

• Competitive Benchmarking: Automatically pull data on competitors to compare engagement rates and content consistency.
• Influencer Vetting: Quickly validate an influencer’s claimed reach and engagement before initiating outreach campaigns.
• Marketing Audits: Generate recurring monthly performance reports for clients without manual data entry.
• Trend Analysis: Monitor how specific hashtag strategies correlate with high engagement profiles in your industry niche.

Example Prompts

1. "Perform a marketing audit on @nike and @adidas to compare their recent engagement levels and primary content topics."
2. "Can you check the current posting frequency and top hashtags for @gymshark to see how their content strategy has changed?"
3. "Run a performance scan on the influencer handle 'fitnesscoach_pro' and include the engagement rate in my summary report."

Tips & Limitations

• Handling API Costs: Each execution consumes compute credits via Apify; ensure you monitor your Apify account usage for high-volume auditing tasks.
• Data Privacy: This skill is strictly limited to collecting public profile data. It cannot access private account information or direct message interactions.
• Rate Limiting: If you encounter timeout issues during peak hours, consider staggering your request execution intervals.
• Accuracy: Posting frequency is an estimate based on the last 30 posts; if a profile has been inactive for a long time, the frequency metric may appear as 'unknown'.