Post to Instagram when you go live

What your followers see

Every Instagram post is a picture with a caption. The picture is your stream's Twitch live preview, or one from your Media library, and the starter caption is:

Live now on Twitch: Speedrunning Celeste until the PB falls - playing Celeste. Link in bio!

Change it to anything you like; Insert… adds values such as your title and category.

• Links. Instagram doesn't make a link in a caption clickable, so put your Twitch link in your Instagram bio, as the starter caption says.
• Pictures. Bloopbot turns the picture into a JPEG and sizes it. The Twitch live preview fits Instagram's shape; for your own picture, a square works.
• 2,200 characters and up to 30 hashtags in a caption. Longer text is cut with ….
• Instagram allows 100 posts every 24 hours through apps, on top of Bloopbot's 10 an hour.

The flow

The Socials pack's Post to Instagram when you go live is four steps you can open and change:

1. Stream starts or ends, set to Live.
2. Variable is: this stream hasn't been announced on Instagram yet.
3. Post to Instagram, with the caption, the picture and a live preview of the post.
4. Set a variable: remember this stream once Instagram confirms the post.

So a short disconnect doesn't post twice, and your next stream gets a fresh post.

Set it up

1. Open Connections, choose Instagram and press Connect Instagram. Approve Bloopbot on Instagram. A personal account can't connect: switch it to a professional account in the Instagram app's Settings first.
2. On Flows, press Add and add the Socials pack. Its flows install paused.
3. Open Post to Instagram when you go live and press Send test post to see the real post on your profile. Instagram takes a few seconds to process the picture.
4. Switch the flow on.

Posting to Instagram may not be available on your channel yet. Connections shows which networks your channel can connect.

The same pack posts to Bluesky, Mastodon, X, Threads and Facebook. See every network at once.