Reverse engineered Instagram's private Notes API to sync your Spotify songs directly to your Instagram profile, built before Instagram made it a feature themselves.
MusicNotes is a reverse engineering project that connects your Spotify account with Instagram’s private Notes API. It automatically updates your Instagram Notes with the song you’re currently listening to on Spotify, in real time.
Yes, I built this before Instagram officially rolled out their own “music in notes” feature (I want credit Zuck). Most of the effort went into reverse engineering the API, the code implementation here is fairly simple.
- Reverse engineered Instagram’s private Notes API.
- Spotify integration using official API.
- Real-time sync: your Instagram Notes update automatically when your song changes.
- Hands-free: set it once, and it keeps your Notes fresh with your current track.
- Proof-of-concept for what later became an official Instagram feature.
- Connect Spotify
- Connect Instagram
- Sync Engine → Polls Spotify playback, pushes updates to Instagram Notes automatically.
- This project was made purely for educational and research purposes.
- It uses reverse engineering on a private API — which violates Instagram’s Terms of Service.
- Do not use this on production accounts unless you fully understand the risks (including possible account bans).
- Python
- Spotify Web API for music data
- Reverse-engineered Instagram private API for Notes updates
MIT — Use, learn, and adapt — but give credit.