AI Instagram Chat Agent for ManyChat & OpenAI

Unlock Automated & Personalized Instagram Engagement with this AI Agent

This AI Agent acts as your intelligent Instagram assistant, designed for solopreneurs, founders, and automation leads looking to scale their social media presence. It seamlessly integrates with your Instagram account via ManyChat, capturing incoming Direct Messages. These messages are then processed by a sophisticated AI, powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT, which crafts contextually relevant and human-like responses based on a customizable persona you define. The agent remembers past interactions within a conversation, ensuring coherent and engaging dialogue, and then sends the reply back through ManyChat to your Instagram user.

Key Features & Benefits

• Seamless Instagram DM Automation: Connects directly to your Instagram DMs using ManyChat as the bridge for reliable message fetching and sending.
• Intelligent Conversations with OpenAI: Leverages the power of OpenAI's ChatGPT (configurable model) to understand intent and generate natural, high-quality replies.
• Customizable AI Persona: Tailor the AI's personality, tone, and knowledge base via a simple system prompt. Ensure your bot perfectly reflects your brand's voice (e.g., 'Instagram influencer' as per the template's example).
• Context-Aware Responses: Built-in conversation memory (Langchain Window Buffer) allows the AI to recall previous parts of the chat, leading to more meaningful interactions.
• Scalable Follower Engagement: Efficiently manage a high volume of Instagram DMs, provide instant support, and keep your audience engaged 24/7.
• Webhook-Driven: Easily triggered by external events from ManyChat, making it flexible for various Instagram automation scenarios.
• Designed for n8n Power Users: Provides a solid foundation that can be extended with more n8n nodes for complex follow-up actions or data logging.

• An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted).
• OpenAI API Key with access to a suitable model (e.g., gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4).
• A ManyChat account connected to your Instagram account.
• Ability to configure 'External Request' or similar webhook actions in ManyChat.

1. Download the n8n workflow JSON file (ai-instagram-chat-agent-v1.0.0.json).
2. Import the workflow into your n8n instance.
3. Configure the 'Getting message from Instagram' (Webhook) node: Copy its 'PRODUCTION' URL. This URL will be used in ManyChat to send messages to n8n.
4. In the 'Set your system promt for AI' node, customize the prompt variable. This defines your AI's persona, context, task, and style rules. The template provides an example for an Instagram influencer. This node also expects session_id and text (the user's message) in the incoming webhook data from ManyChat.
5. In the 'ChatGPT model' node, select your configured OpenAI credential. You can also choose your preferred OpenAI model (e.g., gpt-4, gpt-3.5-turbo).
6. Optionally, in the 'Local n8n memory' node, adjust the contextWindowLength parameter to control how many previous messages the AI agent remembers for conversational context.
7. In ManyChat: Set up a flow or rule that triggers an 'External Request' (or similar action that calls a webhook) when a new Instagram message is received. Configure this action to send a POST request to the n8n webhook URL (from step 3). The request body MUST be JSON and include session_id (for conversation tracking, e.g., ManyChat's user ID) and text (the content of the user's message).
8. Ensure ManyChat is set up to handle the JSON response from n8n's 'Send respond ' node and deliver it as a message back to the Instagram user.
9. Activate the n8n workflow.
10. For detailed guidance on the ManyChat setup portion, refer to the community guide: Instagram GPT (light version) Manychat X N8N.