Mentions

Updated: Mar 18, 2026

Identify captions, comments, and IG Media in which an Instagram Business or Creator's alias has been tagged or @mentioned.

Requirements

This guide assumes you have read the Instagram Platform Overview and implemented the needed components for using this API, such as a Meta login flow and a webhooks server to receive notifications.

You will need the following:

Access Level

• Advanced Access if your app serves Instagram Professional accounts you don't own or manage
• Standard Access if your app serves Instagram Professional accounts you own or manage and have added to your app in the App Dashboard

Base URL

All endpoints can be accessed via the graph.instagram.com host.

Endpoints

• GET /<IG_ID>/tags — to get the media objects in which a Business or Creator Account has been tagged
• POST /<IG_ID>/mentions — to reply to a comment or media object caption that a Business or Creator Account has been @mentioned in by another Instagram user

Permissions

• instagram_business_basic
• instagram_business_manage_comments

Limitations

• Mentions on Stories are not supported.
• Commenting on photos in which you were tagged is not supported.
• Webhooks will not be sent if the Media upon which the comment or @mention appears was created by an account that is set to private⁠.

Listening for and Replying to @Mentions

You can listen for comment @mentions and reply to any that meet your criteria:

• Set up a script that can parse the Webhooks notifications and identify comment IDs.
• Use the IDs to query the GET /<IG_ID>/tags endpoint to get more information about each comment.
• Analyze the returned results to identify any comments that meet your criteria.
• Use the POST /<IG_ID>/mentions endpoint to reply to those comments or media objects.