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My agent is counting all 77,000 stories in my Instagram story archive

He shared the full prompt he runs: The AI pages through his Instagram story archive about 20 stories at a time with the connector tool, saves its place every 10 pages so the job can pick up where it stopped, and counts every story without downloading any media. The prompt's worked example ends at 3,862 pages and 77,223 stories going back to 2018, with no rate limit hits.

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How it works

  1. Fetch one archive page at a time with the Instagram connector
  2. Record page counts and date ranges
  3. Save progress and the cursor every 10 pages
  4. Keep going until no next page is left
  5. Report totals and the date range

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent works through thousands of pages one at a time and saves its place, so a job this size can stop and start without losing count.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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