What is your goal?Instagram has released an feauter where you can have one copy per image in a carousel, I would like to use this feature through Makes Instagram moduls.
What is the problem & what have you tried?Instagram has released an feature where you can have one copy per image in a carousel, is this feature possible to use through makes instagram moduls?
Short answer is no, and the reason is worth knowing because it is not a Make limitation.
Instagram’s content publishing API builds a carousel in two stages. Each image is created as its own child container flagged as a carousel item, then a parent container collects those children and is published. The caption belongs to the parent, and the child containers have no caption field of their own in the published API. So there is nothing for Make’s modules to expose here. Anyone building this with raw HTTP calls instead of the Instagram modules would hit the same wall.
Features do sometimes appear in the app well before the API catches up, and this looks like one of them. Worth rechecking Meta’s content publishing documentation for the carousel child parameters every so often, since if per-image text is ever added it will show up there first and Make’s modules would follow after.
If what you actually need is different text visibly attached to each image rather than in the caption, the workable route today is rendering that text into the images themselves before upload, which you can do in the same scenario before the container is created.
this depends on whether meta actually exposes per-image alt text as a separate field in the graph api response for that container type, not on whether make’s module supports it. if the field isn’t in the api response make’s connector has nothing to map regardless of how the module is built.
worth checking the raw api response for a carousel container you create manually first, before assuming it’s a make limitation. if the field is there but hidden, an http module hitting the graph api directly will get you past it even if the native instagram module in make hasn’t caught up to the new instagram feature yet, that gap between meta shipping something and third party connectors catching up is usually a few months not a few days.