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.
How it works
- Get your access prompt. Log in to bernard, open your site, and copy the prompt from Edit with AI (it contains a key that works for 12 hours).
- 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.
- 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.
The prompt
“Use the photo from this Instagram post on my site: [link to the post]. Put it on my [page name] page.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Log in to bernard → your site → Edit with AI → copy your access prompt, paste that into your AI first, then ask the above.
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.