Instagram

Add your bot to Instagram using the official integration.

Open in Hubv3.1.1

The official Instagram integration allows your users to chat with your bot by messaging an Instagram account.

Setup

Basic configuration

You will need:

• A published bot
• A professional Instagram account. If you have a personal Instagram account, the setup wizard will ask you to switch to a professional account.

1. In Botpress Studio, select Explore Hub in the upper-right corner.
2. Search for the Instagram integration, then select Install Integration.
3. In the Configuration menu, select Authorize Instagram.
4. Follow the instructions to connect Botpress to your Instagram account.

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Cards

The following Cards are available with the Instagram integration:

Get Or Create Conversation DM

This Card proactively starts a new conversation with a user (or sends a message to your existing conversation with them).

Just fill in the User ID field with the Instagram ID of the account you want to start a conversation with.

Get Or Create User

This Card manually gets or creates a Botpress user associated with an Instagram ID.

Just fill in the ID field with the Instagram ID you want to associate with the Botpress user. You can also fill in the optional fields to provide a name, picture URL, and email address for the Botpress user.