Instagram allows a limited number of API posts per professional account in a rolling 24 hours; the documentation says 100 in one place and 50 in another, so Xairo enforces the lower number. A carousel counts as one post.
Instagram’s own developer documentationXairo publishes
- Single images
- Carousels
- Reels
Instagram does not allow
- Stories through this route
- Posting to a personal profile
- Editing a published post
Account and connection
- Account required
- A professional account, either Business or Creator. Personal profiles cannot publish through any API.
- Token lifetime
- Long-lived tokens last about 60 days and Xairo renews them in the background.
- How often you reconnect
- Every two months at the outside, and immediately if you go 90 days without using Xairo.
- Credit cost
- 2 for a post, 2 with a link, 3 for video.
Worth knowing
- Instagram only downloads media from a link, so Xairo hands your file over through short-lived storage and deletes it after publishing. Images are converted to JPEG, the only still format Instagram accepts.
- The documented daily cap is inconsistent between 50 and 100 posts per account. Xairo enforces the lower number so you never hit a surprise rejection.