Narro is a user-curated social media app. Add the profiles you follow on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn — Narro shows their posts in order, with no algorithm, ads, or tracking.
Instagram has no native RSS feed and has never offered one. The third-party API ecosystem that made Instagram-to-RSS possible between 2010 and 2013 has been closed for years; Meta's Basic Display API was retired in December 2024. Narro generates an RSS feed for any public Instagram profile, with posts in chronological order, no Instagram account required.
Instagram never offered a first-party RSS feed. What existed between 2010 and 2013 was a third-party ecosystem built on top of Instagram's open public API. When the API closed, RSS died with it.
2010
October 2010. A public API ships alongside the app. Third parties immediately build RSS bridges on top of the open endpoints.
2012
April 2012, for one billion dollars. The acquisition seeds the strategic shift away from open APIs.
2013
Instagram begins restricting public read endpoints. The third-party RSS bridges that worked the year before start breaking. This is the era most "Instagram killed RSS" claims point to.
2016
March 2016. Instagram ends chronological-by-default for logged-in users. Following someone no longer means seeing their posts in order.
2018
April 2018. Facebook accelerates the Instagram API shutdown. Public read access for personal accounts effectively ends. Only Graph API for business accounts remains.
2024
December 4, 2024. Meta deprecates the Instagram Basic Display API. The last semi-public read path closes.
Today
A real RSS feed for any public Instagram profile. Posts in the order they were published. No Instagram account required.
The Instagram API of 2012 was generous. A public endpoint at /users/[id]/media/recent returned the latest posts from any account in plain JSON. Third-party developers wrapped that endpoint with RSS adapters, and a small ecosystem of Instagram-to-RSS tools flourished. Feed readers, intranet dashboards, archivists, and accessibility tools all depended on it.
Beginning in 2013, Instagram tightened that surface. The endpoint required authentication. App approval became selective. Rate limits dropped. Within a few months most of the public Instagram-to-RSS tools were broken. Instagram never issued an announcement. The functionality died quietly inside a developer changelog.
That decision cost readers chronological access, third-party clients, accessibility-friendly views, and the durability of public Instagram content as a part of the open web. Following someone on Instagram became a single-app activity, and stayed that way until Narro.
What was possible in 2012 versus what the Instagram app gives you today. The left column is what Narro restores.
| Behavior | With Narro | Instagram app today |
|---|---|---|
| Account required to view | No | Yes |
| Posts in chronological order | Yes | No (algorithmic since 2016) |
| Available in any RSS reader | Yes | No |
| Stories injection | No | Yes |
| Suggested posts from non-followed accounts | No | Yes |
| Ads between posts | No | Yes |
Narro restores the chronological, account-free, third-party-readable experience of Instagram circa 2012. That means: every public post and Reel from any profile you add, in order, with caption and thumbnail, deliverable to Feedly, Reeder, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, Readwise Reader, or any other RSS app.
Narro does not show Stories, private accounts, or Live streams.
Put Narro where Instagram used to be.
Specific use cases, not generic complaints.
Bakeries, coffee roasters, neighborhood restaurants post product drops and daily specials only on Instagram. RSS turns "did I remember to check Instagram" into a feed item your reader already shows you.
Working creatives publish portfolios on Instagram because clients look there. RSS lets art directors and editors track talent without Stories noise, suggested Reels, or ads between portfolios.
Many neighborhood news accounts, city councils, and independent reporters post breaking updates on Instagram first. RSS routes those updates next to your other news sources in the same reader.
People who deleted Instagram on purpose still have a parent, a band, or a favorite restaurant they want to keep up with. RSS lets you keep the people without the app.
Build a Instagram feed in Narro, copy its RSS URL, and paste it into whichever reader you use. Setup is the same shape everywhere.
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