A wide paste brush resting on a bucket beside a long poster unrolling toward the viewer
I have new work1 min read

Use a photo from my Instagram

Your best photos often live on Instagram while your website makes do with last year’s - and re-downloading, renaming and re-uploading is exactly the faff that stops you fixing it. On a bernard-hosted site, a link to the post is enough.

The prompt

“Use the photo from this Instagram post on my site: [link to the post]. Put it on my [page name] page.”

Signed in, Get my prompt fills in your site for you. Otherwise press Copy and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard once: Use your own AI (opens in a new tab).

How it works

  1. Connect bernard to your AI (once). Log in to bernard, open your site, go to Use your own AI, and paste the setup prompt into your AI to connect it - a one-time setup.
  2. Paste it into your AI - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whichever you already use - then paste the Instagram post’s link and say where the photo should go.
  3. Approve. The AI sends back a preview link. Check the photo looks right on the page, press Approve, and it’s live.

If the post can’t be fetched directly - a private account, say - don’t fight it: paste the photo itself into the chat instead and the AI uploads it just the same. Either way, make sure it’s your photo to use.

Questions people ask

How do I get a photo from Instagram onto my website?
If your site is hosted with bernard, paste the Instagram post’s link to the AI you already use - ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini - and say where the photo should go. bernard fetches the image from the post, and nothing goes live until you approve the preview.
What if the Instagram post is private or the photo can’t be fetched?
Then skip the link: paste the photo itself into the chat instead, straight from your phone, and the AI uploads it the same way.
Is the website copy of the photo as good quality as the Instagram one?
bernard fetches the image the post itself uses. If you have the original photo, pasting it into the chat usually gives you a higher-quality copy than Instagram’s - files up to 10 MB are fine.

Next