Instagram Publishing Capabilities & Limitations

Updated 


ENGAGEMENT CAPABILITIES


The table below specifies if the mentioned capability is available in Sprinklr or is restricted by Channel APIs (API Limitation) for both Sprinklr Space and Sprinklr Mobile Application.

Capabilities

Sprinklr Web Application

Note

Comment on a Post

Yes


Like a comment

No

API Limitation

Like a Post

No

API Limitation

Reply to a Comment

Yes


Follow an Instagram User

No

API Limitation

Delete Media Post

No

API Limitation

Delete Comments

Yes


Delete Dark Post Comments

Yes


Delete Shadow Post Comments

No

API Limitation**

Respond to Shadow Post Comments

No

API Limitation**

Hide/ Unhide Instagram Post Comments

Yes


Disable comments on Posts/Ads

No

API Limitation

Pull in Replies on Instagram Ad Post Comments

No


View @mentions in Comments on public posts

Yes

No support for permalink of the comment

Initiate Direct Message conversations

No

API Limitation

View Direct Messages

Yes


Send/Reply to Direct Messages

Yes


Like Direct Messages

Yes


Delete Direct Messages

No

API Limitation

View Live Comments on Instagram Live

Yes


View @mentions in Posts/Captions/Story

Yes

If the Brand is mentioned by Private Account, they will NOT be fetched in Sprinklr

Respond to tagged Post

Yes

User can comment on tagged posts

Respond to tagged Photo

No

API Limitation

View number of replies to a Story

Yes


View Follower Profile

Yes


Yes

No


Swap Scheduled Posts from Instagram Feed Preview

Yes


Read Receipts for Agents and Customers

Yes


View Fan Instagram Followers Count & Verified Badge info

Yes

The following info about the user profile is available in the Profile Third Pane.

View Fan Instagram account Bio & No. of Posts

No

API Limitation

Edit a Published Post

No

API Limitation

**Shadow Post Comments filter in when a user has selected the Use Facebook Page as Instagram Page option. This results in Instagram creating a shadow page with the same name as that the Facebook page.

  • Due to API Limitations, users are not able to respond to Instagram shadow posts.

  • Users will not have the option to follow the account on Instagram for shadow posts.

Functionality

Business Account

Notes

Publishing

Publish photos

Yes

The file size should not exceed 8 MB and the photo's aspect ratio is between 1.91:1 and 4:5.

Publish videos

Yes

The video duration of the Instagram Video posts can only be between 3 seconds and 60 seconds in length via Sprinklr.

If your video post is longer than 60 seconds we recommend you to post it via mobile publishing flow.

Custom video thumbnail selection

Yes

You are required to select a thumbnail from video frames only.

If the thumbnail is not selected from the video frame you will receive a warning and no custom thumbnail will be added to the video post. 

For more information, see Publish Video on Instagram.

Publish stories

Yes

  • Only via Sprinklr Mobile App.

  • Up to 10 images or videos.

Add a link for "Swipe Up" to Instagram Stories 

No

API Limitation

Add Polls in Instagram Stories

No

API Limitation

Publish a carousel Post (multiple attachments in a single post)

Yes


Publish GIFs

No

It gets published as a photo (can also be published as a video instead).

Add a caption to a post

Yes


Tag Instagram accounts to your image post

Yes

You can only tag public profiles, business accounts, or your own followers in case of private profiles. Also, you can tag 20 accounts to one image post.

Tag Instagram accounts to your video post

No

API Limitation 

Tag a location in a post

Yes


Publish a post to multiple Instagram accounts or Group publishing of a photo

Yes


Preview Instagram Feed in Editorial Calendar

Yes


Swap scheduled posts from Instagram Feed Preview within Editorial Calendar

Yes


Instagram Shoppable Posts 

Yes


Adding SRT captions to a video post

No

API Limitation

Adding Alt text to a photo post

No

API Limitation

Publish Live Video

No

API Limitation

Instagram Reels

Yes


Publish an IGTV Post (Instagram TV)

No

API Limitation


Additional Instagram information

  • If an Instagram Direct Message is deleted natively, then it will get deleted in Sprinklr as well.

  • Cannot delete media posts from the platform, and natively deleted posts are not currently synced in the platform. If a post is edited on native that information is not synced to our platform.

  • Posts from Instagram profiles must be published using the Instagram app

  • Natively published Instagram posts may take up to ten minutes before they are auto-imported into the Sprinklr platform.

  • If a scheduled post is not "Marked as published", the post will remain in a scheduled state and in any scheduled columns; the post will also auto-import as sent, resulting in two instances of the post. To avoid duplicate posts, mark posts and publish them after they have been posted.

  • Messages can be drafted or scheduled within Sprinklr, but native publishing is required. Learn more in Schedule and Publish to Instagram.

  • Single-image and single-video Instagram Story can be planned but not published directly.

  • Multi-image posts can be planned but not published directly.

  • On Sprinklr, you can grab all comments for organic Instagram posts.

  • For Dark Posts on Instagram, we fetch the last 1000 posts and their comments. This is subject to a specific configuration. Get in touch with your Success Manager or Support Team to enable this.

  • If a post is boosted for an Instagram business account, then the API for Benchmarking will return only the organic engagements received by post.

  • Liking on the Instagram channel is only available for Instagram Direct Message via APIs. Note that you cannot like an Instagram comments & replies post(API Limitation). The same is true for Rule Engine. Rule Engine action that will like message will also work for the direct message only.

  • Reposting or Sharing Instagram content is not available via Sprinklr.

Media Recommendations for Instagram

  • Instagram image format: JPEG

  • Instagram video and reel format: MOV or MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14), no edit lists, moov atom at the front of the file.



Publish Instagram Videos up to 60 mins through Mobile Publishing Flow

We have enhanced the Instagram Video Publishing for Mobile Publishing flow. The following changes are applicable:

  • The maximum allowed size for video with a duration of 10 minutes should now be less than 650 MB for Instagram mobile publishing flow.

  • The maximum allowed size for a video is 3.6GB if you select a video with a length between 3s to 60mins for Instagram mobile publishing flow.

Limitation of Hashtag Listening in Instagram Reels

  • You can query a maximum of 30 unique hashtags on behalf of an Instagram Business or Creator Account within a rolling, 7 day period. Once you query a hashtag, it will count against this limit for 7 days. Subsequent queries on the same hashtag within this time frame will not count against your limit, and will not reset its initial query 7 day timer.

  • Personally identifiable information will not be included in responses.

  • You cannot comment on hash tagged media objects discovered through the API.

  • Hashtags on Stories are not supported.

  • Emojis in hashtag queries are not supported.

  • The API will return a generic error for any requests that include hashtags that we have deemed sensitive or offensive.