Platform guides

How to post to every platform via API

Platform-by-platform request flows, rate limits, and gotchas — one page per specific thing you're trying to do.

Instagram

01
Instagram API: Post Photos and Videos

How to post a photo or video to Instagram programmatically with the PostGate API — one request, any professional account.

02
Instagram Posting API

A posting API for Instagram Business and Creator accounts, with per-target delivery status instead of a fire-and-forget response.

03
How to Post to Instagram via API

The complete request flow for posting to Instagram via API: connect the account, create the media container, publish, and confirm delivery.

04
Instagram Scheduling API

Schedule Instagram posts for a future time via API, with a stable Idempotency-Key so a retry never double-posts.

05
Instagram Reels API

What changes technically when you publish a Reel instead of a feed post via the Instagram API.

06
Instagram Carousel API

How to publish a multi-image or mixed photo/video carousel to Instagram via API, up to the platform limit per post.

07
Instagram Stories API

What the Instagram API actually supports for Stories — format, duration, and the real limits on scheduling them.

08
Instagram API Rate Limit

How Instagram Graph API rate limiting actually works, and how to avoid hitting it in production.

09
Instagram Graph API: Publish a Photo

The exact two-step request flow to publish a single photo to Instagram using the Graph API.

10
Instagram Content Publishing API

An overview of the Instagram Content Publishing permission and API surface, and what it requires from your app.

11
Instagram Business Account API Requirement

Why the Instagram publishing API requires a Business or Creator account, and what that means if your users only have personal accounts.

12
Instagram Graph API Alternative

When to use a managed API like PostGate instead of integrating directly against Meta’s Graph API.

13
Instagram First Comment API

How to publish a post to Instagram and immediately add a first comment via API — the common pattern for hiding hashtags.

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