# BaseBuilder Social Instagram Media API

> BaseBuilder Social Instagram Media API is a paid API for AI agents from bb-social-brown.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.152346/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Fetches or retrieves Instagram media data for a given account or post via a paid API endpoint

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://bb-social-brown.vercel.app/api/instagram/media?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.152346/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder-social-instagram-media-api-746b9bed
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5XqVs8ix_vLKLb922bvpC

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability basebuilder-social-instagram-media-api-746b9bed -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the recent Instagram media posts for the account @coffeeshopmorningbloom and give me the image URLs, captions, and engagement stats?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need programmatic access to Instagram media data including images, videos, captions, and metadata for a specific account or post, and are willing to pay per call via x402 micropayment protocol.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or missing Instagram account identifier returns 400 error
- Account is private or does not exist returns empty result or 404
- Payment not fulfilled returns 402 Payment Required
- Rate limit exceeded returns 429
- Instagram API upstream failure returns 500 or timeout

## How this service works

BaseBuilder Social API hub - 20 paid endpoints

## Output

Returns Instagram media objects including post IDs, image or video URLs, captions, timestamps, and engagement metrics for the queried account or post.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder-social-instagram-media-api-746b9bed/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from bb-social-brown.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/bb-social-brown.vercel.app/llms.txt)