Ig Download MCP Server

MCP service for downloading Instagram videos

Local serverstdio

What is the Ig Download MCP server?

Ig Download MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Ig Download directly instead of describing what you should do. MCP service for downloading Instagram videos.

What you get

ig-download-mcp-server is a lightweight MCP (Model Context Protocol) service that enables downloading Instagram videos programmatically. It uses btch-downloader for extracting media URLs and axios for efficient downloading.

  • Fetch Instagram video URLs
  • Download videos to a specified local path
  • Progress tracking and logging
  • Built with FastMCP for easy integration

Setting it up

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.

Before you rely on it

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the ig download mcp server does with a few real requests.

Choosing this one

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by handoing; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

This entry was verified against Ig Download's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.

How to install the Ig Download MCP server

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "ig-download-mcp-server": {
            "command": "node",
            "args": [
                "path/ig-download-mcp-server/index.js"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Ig Download to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Ig Download directly.