Use images from your Instagram posts in Leat
The Instagram integration lets you use the photos you've already posted on Instagram anywhere you add an image in Leat: emails, rewards, your contacts portal, your website widget and more. You connect your Instagram account once, and your posts show up in the Instagram tab of the media picker.
The integration is free and built by Leat.
Before you start
- Your Instagram account has to be a business or creator account. A personal account can't be connected. You can switch an account to a business or creator account in the Instagram app.
- Instagram's login opens in a popup window. If your browser blocks popups for the Leat dashboard, allow them first, or nothing happens when you click Connect Instagram.
Connect your Instagram account
- In the dashboard, go to Apps, then Integrations.
- On the Marketplace page, search for Instagram and open it.
- Click Connect Instagram.
- Log in to Instagram in the popup with the account you want to use, and allow Leat access.
The popup closes by itself and you see "Instagram connected as @yourname". You land on the Instagram integration page, which shows your Instagram username marked Connected.
You can also connect straight from the media picker: open the Instagram tab and click Connect Instagram. You stay where you were, so unsaved work in an editor isn't lost.
Pick an image from Instagram
- Click an image field anywhere in the dashboard, or Choose image on an image block in the email editor. The media picker opens.
- Open the Instagram tab. Your username is shown at the top, with your posts' images below it.
- Scroll down to load older posts.
- Click an image and then Add image.
Leat copies the image into your account and adds it to My images, so you can use it again later without going back to Instagram. The copy stays in Leat when you delete the post on Instagram or disconnect your account.
What shows up in the tab:
- Every image post.
- Every image in a carousel post, each as a separate tile.
- No videos or reels. A video inside a carousel is left out too.
Where you can use Instagram images
The Instagram tab sits next to Unsplash in the media picker, and is offered wherever Unsplash is. That includes image blocks in emails, rewards, promotions, tiers, gift cards, your contacts portal, the website widget, forms, your wallet pass, and the cover image in your brand kit.
It isn't offered where only your own images fit, such as the logos in your brand kit and the stamp images of a stamp card, and it isn't in GIF pickers.
One Instagram account per Leat account
Each Leat account connects 1 Instagram account. To use a different one, disconnect the current account and connect the other.
The same Instagram account can be connected to more than one Leat account, for example when you run a Leat account per location.
You don't have to reconnect from time to time. Leat keeps the connection alive by itself.
Disconnect Instagram
- Go to Apps, then Integrations, and open Instagram.
- Click Disconnect.
Images you already added stay in My images and keep working wherever you used them.
If you remove Leat's access from your Instagram account's settings, the connection in Leat is removed too.
When something goes wrong
Nothing happens when I click Connect Instagram. Your browser blocked the popup. Allow popups for the Leat dashboard and click again.
"Instagram wasn't connected". The Instagram login was cancelled or closed before you allowed access. Click Connect Instagram again.
"Connecting Instagram didn't work. Try again." Instagram didn't finish the login. Check that you're logging in with a business or creator account, and try again.
"No images found". The connected account has no image posts, only videos or reels. Those can't be added.
The Instagram tab asks me to connect again. Instagram stopped accepting Leat's access, for example because it was removed in your Instagram settings. Connect your account again. Images you added before are still in My images.
An image I'm looking for isn't there. Videos and reels aren't shown. If it's an older post, scroll down further: posts load as you scroll.