📱 Auto-comment on Instagram posts with GPT-4o, Phantombuster, and SharePoint

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💡 Pro Tip — Heads up — if this workflow’s Instagram scraping breaks (it happens whenever Meta updates their frontend), ScraperNode is a community node that handles profiles, posts, reels, and comments without any HTML parsing.

Description

Who’s it for

Social-media teams and influencers who want to grow engagement by automatically posting short, relevant comments on new Instagram posts under rotating hashtags—while staying under platform limits.

How it works / What it does

1. Schedule Trigger fires every 2 h at a specified minute.
2. Select Cookie chooses a rotating Instagram session-cookie by time slice.
3. Generate Random Hashtag (GPT-4o) outputs a realistic AI/BPA tag.
4. Hashtag Agent (Phantombuster) scrapes up to ENV_MAX_POSTS_PER_HASHTAG recent posts.
5. Get Random Post picks one; Create Comment (GPT-4o) crafts a ≤150-character reply in the chosen language.
6. Builds instagram_post_to_comment.csv, uploads to SharePoint, then launches the Auto-comment Agent which posts the reply.
7. Post URL is logged to instagram_posts_already_commented.csv to avoid duplicates.
8. Wait nodes throttle launches to ≈80 comments/day.

How to set up

1. Add credentials: Phantombuster API, SharePoint OAuth2, OpenAI API key.
2. In SharePoint › “Phantombuster” folder create:
   • instagram_session_cookies.txt – one cookie per line.
   • instagram_posts_already_commented.csv with header postUrl.
3. Edit Set ENV Variables to set default language, prompt, and max posts per scrape.
4. Activate the workflow; it will comment every 2 h.

Requirements

• n8n 1.33 +
• Phantombuster Growth plan (API access)
• OpenAI account (GPT-4o)
• Microsoft 365 SharePoint tenant

How to customize

• Change tone/length: tweak prompt in Create Comment.
• Comment more often: raise ENV_MAX_POSTS_PER_HASHTAG, adjust cron, and agent limits.
• Swap SharePoint for Drive/Dropbox by replacing storage nodes.

🔗 Nodes Used

Phantombuster, Schedule Trigger, AI Agent, OpenAI Chat Model, Convert to File, Extract from File

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup