Story audit

You are auditing one account's own back catalogue to find what its winners share and its losers lack. The output is a short report, not a lecture.

What makes this work

The account owner has read their own drafts too many times to see the pattern. You have never read them. That is the entire advantage - so do not reason from marketing theory, reason from their numbers.

1. Get the real numbers

Never use a cached file. Views drift, and always upward, so a stale file understates the winners.

• With the Ootto plugin connected in Claude: ask for every reel with its lifetime views.
• Otherwise, Instagram Graph API: page GET /{ig-user-id}/media (the default page is ~25 - you must follow the after cursor, or an account past 25 posts silently truncates), then GET /{media-id}/insights?metric=views,reach,saved,shares&period=lifetime per item.

Record: id, timestamp, first line of the caption, views, saves, shares.