Comments

List comments

Always request fields explicitly.
Meta’s default response omits from and text.

curl "https://gateway.hookmyapp.com/meta/v25.0/${MEDIA_ID}/comments?fields=id,from,text,timestamp,like_count,hidden" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN}"

Results are top-level comments, 50 per page, with cursor paging.
Add replies to fields for nested replies, or read them directly:

curl "https://gateway.hookmyapp.com/meta/v25.0/${COMMENT_ID}/replies?fields=id,from,text,timestamp" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN}"

Mentions of your account arrive through the same comment surface.
Under Instagram Login there is no separate mentions webhook field — mentions show up in comment webhook events.

Reply publicly

Posts a threaded reply under the comment.

curl -X POST "https://gateway.hookmyapp.com/meta/v25.0/${COMMENT_ID}/replies" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "message": "Thanks!" }'

You cannot reply to a hidden comment. Unhide it first.

Reply privately

Sends a DM to the commenter instead of a public reply.

curl -X POST "https://gateway.hookmyapp.com/meta/v25.0/${INSTAGRAM_ACCOUNT_ID}/messages" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "recipient": { "comment_id": "17900000000000000" },
  "message": { "text": "Sent you the details in DM." }
}'

Private replies have hard limits from Meta:
One private reply per comment.
Within 7 days of the comment’s creation for comments on posts and reels.
For comments on a live video, only while the broadcast is live — once the Live ends, private replies to its comments are rejected regardless of the 7-day window.
At most 750 private replies per hour.

These rejections are permanent for that comment or recipient — retrying the same call can never succeed, so drop it instead of retrying:

Status	`error_subcode`	Meaning
`409`	`2534023`	This comment already received a private reply. Meta allows only one.
`403`	`2534022`	The message is outside the allowed window (7 days for posts and reels, live-only for Live comments).
`400`	`2534014`	The requested user can’t be found.
`400`	`2534001`	The recipient archived or deleted the conversation.

The 750-per-hour quota is different: it resets on its own, so a request rejected for the quota can be retried after the window passes. The response body carries the same fields Meta returns (code, error_subcode, fbtrace_id), so your automation can branch on error_subcode directly.

Hide, delete, and disable

# Hide a comment (unhide with hide=false)
curl -X POST "https://gateway.hookmyapp.com/meta/v25.0/${COMMENT_ID}?hide=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN}"

# Delete a comment — only on your own media
curl -X DELETE "https://gateway.hookmyapp.com/meta/v25.0/${COMMENT_ID}" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN}"

# Turn commenting off for a post (re-enable with comment_enabled=true)
curl -X POST "https://gateway.hookmyapp.com/meta/v25.0/${MEDIA_ID}?comment_enabled=false" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN}"

Moderate with the CLI

# List comments
hookmyapp instagram comments list --channel @your-handle --media <media-id>

# Get comment
hookmyapp instagram comments get <comment-id> --channel @your-handle

# Reply to comment
hookmyapp instagram comments reply --channel @your-handle --comment <comment-id> --text "thanks"

# Send private reply
hookmyapp instagram comments private-reply --channel @your-handle --comment <comment-id> --text "sent you a DM"

# Hide comment (add --unhide to reverse)
hookmyapp instagram comments hide --channel @your-handle --comment <comment-id>

# Delete comment
hookmyapp instagram comments delete <comment-id> --channel @your-handle

Moderate with MCP

Three tools cover comments: list_instagram_comments, reply_instagram_comment (public or private), and moderate_instagram_comment (hide, unhide, delete, or turn comments on or off for a post).

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See MCP for setup.

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List comments

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Moderate with the CLI

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