Instacracker-cli May 2026

Let’s say you are conducting a penetration test and the client has asked you to see what information their social media team is leaking.

Using instacracker-cli:

instacracker analyze profile --target client_official --deep

The --deep flag instructs the CLI to:

The Result: In 3 seconds, you have a report revealing that the "Office Dog" photo was uploaded from a specific residential area, potentially leaking the CEO's home location. That is the power of automated OSINT.

# Dictionary attack
instacracker-cli -f hashes.txt -w rockyou.txt -a 0
It would be irresponsible to discuss instacracker-cli without a strict ethical framework. This tool is designed for authorized testing only. instacracker-cli
We’ve all been there. You need to scrape a profile, check metadata on a post, or enumerate followers for a investigation. You have two options:

I wanted something that sat in the middle: a tool that felt like the official API but behaved like a hacker’s Swiss Army knife. I wanted to type a single command and get JSON output that I could pipe into other tools. Let’s say you are conducting a penetration test
Thus, instacracker-cli was born.
Assuming instacracker-cli is available via a package manager or GitHub, the setup process should be developer-friendly. The  --deep  flag instructs the CLI to:
git clone https://github.com/example/instacracker-cli.git
cd instacracker-cli
make install