Your saves become knowledge.Your Instagram sign-in stays in your browser.
Media IQ lists the saved-post links and public creator feeds you choose to sync, then processes those links in your private library. It does not collect your Instagram password or replay your browser sign-in on its servers.
M0 safety controls · updated 20 August 2026
Read-only
No posting, liking, following or messaging
6 hours
Background checks only after you opt in
Immediate pause
An Instagram challenge stops the run and automatic retries
The data boundary
Three places, one narrow path
The browser sign-in is used only to enumerate saved-post references and posts from public creators you explicitly choose to track. Everything after that starts from the link, without sending your Instagram sign-in to Media IQ.
01 · Your browser
Lists what you selected
Uses your existing Instagram login to read collection names, counts, saved-post references and the public creator feeds you chose. No login is automated.
02 · Link handoff
Sends only the reference
Sends the connected handle and public account ID, selected collection or creator identifiers and names, post codes, permalinks and available timestamps.
03 · Private library
Resolves and analyses the post
Media IQ resolves the link separately, then stores the content and analysis under your Media IQ account when the post is accessible.
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A post that cannot be resolved without your Instagram login may remain unavailable. Media IQ does not send your browser sign-in to its server to get around that limit.
What is read
An explicit, read-only scope
✓
Media IQ can read
The collections and saved-post references you choose to sync
Public creator profiles and posts you explicitly choose to track
Collection names, platform identifiers and available post counts
Post permalinks, codes and available timestamps
Content available from a resolved post, including caption, author, media, public metrics and location when the source provides them
Text and meaning extracted from media: OCR, transcript, visual description, summaries, facets and search embeddings
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Media IQ does not read or do
Your Instagram password
Your direct messages, drafts or general browser history
Saved-post references from collections you did not ask Media IQ to sync
Post, comment, like, follow, unfollow or send messages
Copy your Instagram sign-in cookies to Media IQ servers
Chrome permission
The Media IQ browser companion does not request Chrome's Cookies permission. Instagram still receives its own sign-in cookies when your browser makes an Instagram request; Media IQ does not read or copy them.
You control every wake-up
Off by default. Stoppable immediately.
A successful first import is not consent for ongoing background checks. The control is separate, visible and survives a browser restart.
Default · off
Nothing runs until you opt in
If consent is absent or switched off, scheduled wake-ups make no Instagram call — including after the browser companion restarts.
Opted in · every 6 h
A check, not a continuous connection
While the browser companion can run, it wakes at most once every six hours and only checks sources you selected. New links are handed to your private library and their analysis may consume Media IQ credits at the rate shown in the product. You can turn this off at any time.
Stop · now
The active run is cancelled
Stop cancels an in-progress enumeration. Once stopped, no new Instagram request or link handoff begins from that run.
Challenge recovery
Instagram says stop. Media IQ stops.
If Instagram reports a checkpoint or challenge, the run is cancelled immediately. Media IQ does not try a second request path and does not retry automatically.
The pause is remembered across browser restarts. Recovery stays human: open Instagram normally, complete any prompt there, then explicitly resume from Media IQ.
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Instagram returns a challenge or checkpoint
2
Media IQ cancels and remains paused
3
You resolve it in Instagram and choose when to resume
Storage & access
What is kept, and where
In your browser
Connection and safety state
Your Media IQ linking code, selected sources, consent setting, latest sync status and a bounded diagnostic log are stored in Chrome's local storage for this browser profile.
In Media IQ
Your private knowledge base
Media IQ stores connected-account references, collections, post links and resolved post data, plus OCR, transcripts, descriptions, structured analyses, search chunks, usage records and private poster images.
Access controls
Scoped to your account
Database rows are owner-scoped with row-level access policies. Stored poster images live in a private bucket and are opened through temporary signed links. Media IQ stores a hash of server-side linking keys rather than the keys themselves.
An important limitation
Instagram's web interfaces are private and can change
To list private saved collections and public creator feeds, the browser companion uses Instagram web endpoints that Instagram does not document for third-party use. Instagram can change, rate-limit or block those endpoints without notice.
Read-only access, a six-hour interval and immediate challenge stops reduce unnecessary activity; they cannot guarantee that Instagram will never show a warning or restrict the account. Media IQ is not affiliated with or endorsed by Instagram or Meta.
Questions or a data request
Use the channel connected to your account
Contact Media IQ through the same channel used to create or support your account. Include your Media IQ account email and the affected collection or date. Do not send an Instagram password, cookie, one-time code or screenshot containing sign-in data.