Auto-Reply to Instagram Comments with Direct Messages
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This n8n workflow automates the process of sending personalized direct messages to users who comment on your specified Instagram posts. It streamlines your social media engagement by instantly delivering pre-defined replies while preventing duplicate messages using a Google Sheet for tracking. Perfect for businesses looking to enhance follower interaction and efficiently distribute resources or offers.
About This Workflow
This powerful n8n workflow revolutionizes your Instagram engagement strategy by automating personalized direct message (DM) replies to comments on your posts. Simply specify an Instagram post, define your automated DM message, and let n8n handle the rest. It intelligently tracks previously contacted users in a Google Sheet, ensuring no one receives redundant messages. Ideal for businesses, creators, and marketers aiming to save time, increase interaction, and deliver immediate value, such as sharing exclusive links, templates, or information, directly to their most engaged followers without manual effort. Enhance your community management and content reach effortlessly.
Key Features
- Automated DM Replies: Instantly send a predefined direct message to users who comment on your specific Instagram post or reel.
- Duplicate Prevention: Utilizes a Google Sheet to track previously contacted users, ensuring each commenter receives only one automated DM and preventing spam.
- Configurable Messages: Easily customize the Instagram post URL, the DM reply message content, and the profile username directly within the workflow.
- Efficient Engagement: Frees up your team's time from manual replies, allowing them to focus on more strategic social media activities while maintaining high engagement.
- Scalable Tracking: Uses Google Sheets for reliable storage of contacted user data, making it easy to manage and review who has received a DM.
How To Use
This workflow snippet is designed to be part of a larger automation. Here's how to configure the included nodes and integrate it for full functionality:
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Configure Post & Message Node:
- Replace
"Instagram url post/reel"with the direct URL of the Instagram post or reel you want to monitor for comments. - Customize
"Thanks so much! This is the template: xxxxx"with the personalized direct message you want to send to commenters. - Update
"add_upload_post_username"with the exact Instagram username of the profile that owns the post.
- Replace
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Read Contacted Users Node:
- Set up or select your Google Sheets OAuth2 API credentials.
- Choose the Google Sheet (
Document ID) where you want to store a record of contacted users. This sheet will be used by the 'Filter New Comments' node to prevent sending duplicate DMs. - Select the specific tab (
Sheet Name) within your document where the user data will be read from.
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Integrate an Instagram Trigger (Not in snippet, but essential):
- For full automation, you will need to add an Instagram Trigger node at the beginning of your workflow (replacing the 'Start Monitoring' node).
- Configure this trigger to 'Watch for new comments' on the Instagram post specified in your 'Configure Post & Message' node. This trigger will feed new comments into the 'Filter New Comments' node.
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Complete the Automation (Not in snippet, but essential next steps):
- After the 'Filter New Comments' node, you would typically add an Instagram node to 'Send message' to the newly filtered users, using the
replyMessageconfigured earlier. - Following the 'Send message' node, add another Google Sheets node to 'Append Row' to your designated tracking sheet, recording the
comment_idandusernameof each successfully messaged user.
- After the 'Filter New Comments' node, you would typically add an Instagram node to 'Send message' to the newly filtered users, using the
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Workflow JSON
{
"id": "6665d6c0-b067-4d1e-b0bf-1613ccc54e8c",
"name": "Auto-Reply to Instagram Comments with Direct Messages",
"nodes": 15,
"category": "Marketing",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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