What this builds

An automated system that:

monitors Instagram comments

generates contextual AI replies

optionally sends DMs

tracks everything

Basically:

comment → response → conversation → lead

Architecture

`Instagram Comment Trigger ↓ Fetch Post + Comment Data ↓ Filter (duplicates / spam) ↓ AI Response Generator ↓ Post Reply (Graph API) ↓ Send DM (optional) ↓ Store in DB / Google Sheets`

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Step 1 — Trigger (Monitor Comments)

Use Instagram Graph API.

Setup:

poll every 2–5 minutes

fetch latest posts

extract new comments

Why polling?

Because real-time webhook setup is more complex and not required for most use cases.

Step 2 — Filtering Layer (Critical)

Before doing anything, filter:

already replied comments

duplicate users

spam comments

If you skip this:

→ your workflow will reply multiple times to the same user

Step 3 — Extract Context

From each comment, extract:

comment_text username post_caption

Why this matters :

AI without context →…