Fetch Instagram profile data for a given public username or URL.
AI agents call get_instagram_profile to retrieve information from Social Media Scraper - Custom MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves publicly available Instagram profile information without side effects. However, severity is elevated to 'medium' rather than 'low' because scraping social media profiles at scale could enable privacy violations, harassment, or unauthorized data collection for surveillance or profiling purposes, even if the underlying data is technically public.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_instagram_profile' and description 'Fetch Instagram profile data' indicate data retrieval with no modification or deletion. The verb 'Fetch' and absence of terms like 'update', 'delete', or 'execute' confirm read-only behavior.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_instagram_profile gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Social Media Scraper - Custom MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_instagram_profile:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_instagram_profile": {}
}
}get_instagram_profile is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Fetch Instagram profile data for a given public username or URL. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Social Media Scraper - Custom MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Social Media Scraper - Custom MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_instagram_profile: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Social Media Scraper - Custom MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_instagram_profile is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get_instagram_profile rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get_instagram_profile. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get_instagram_profile is provided by the Social Media Scraper - Custom MCP Server MCP server (sharan-kumar-r/custom-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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