Instagram — comment/delete

Irreversible: Deleted comments cannot be recovered. For moderation workflows where audit trails are required, use comment/hide (reversible) instead of delete. Log the comment content via comment/get before deleting if a record is needed.

When to Use

Spam removal: Automatically detect and permanently remove spam comments — bot-generated content, repetitive promotional messages, or phishing links — that have no business value when preserved.
Policy violations: Remove comments that clearly violate Instagram's Community Guidelines (hate speech, harassment, explicit content) after the automated moderation pipeline has confirmed the violation.
Misinformation correction: Delete your own incorrectly posted first-comment (e.g. a wrong link or typo in an auto-posted promotional comment) immediately after detecting the error.
Post-campaign cleanup: After a time-limited promotion, delete promotional first-comments that are no longer relevant to avoid confusing future visitors.
GDPR deletion requests: When a user requests deletion of their personal data, remove their comments from your media as part of the fulfilment workflow.

Configuration

Connection

Field	Required	Description
`accessToken`	Required	Long-lived Instagram access token stored in BizFirst Credentials Manager.
`igUserId`	Required	Your Instagram Business/Creator account ID.

Operation

Field	Required	Description
`resource`	Required	Must be `comments`.
`operation`	Required	Must be `delete`.
`commentId`	Required	ID of the comment to permanently delete.

Sample Configuration JSON

{
  "resource": "comments",
  "operation": "delete",
  "accessToken": "{{ $credential.instagram.accessToken }}",
  "igUserId": "17841400000000000",
  "commentId": "{{ $trigger.body.value.commentId }}"
}

Validation Errors

Error	Cause
`accessToken is required`	`accessToken` field is missing or empty.
`commentId is required`	`commentId` field is missing or empty.
Graph API error 200	You do not have permission to delete this comment (not on your media and not authored by you).
Graph API error 100	Comment does not exist or was already deleted.

Output

Success Port

Field	Type	Description
`status`	string	`"success"`
`deleted`	boolean	`true` when the comment was successfully deleted.
`commentId`	string	The ID of the deleted comment (for audit logging).
`payload`	string	Raw JSON response from the Graph API.

Error Port

Field	Type	Description
`status`	string	`"error"`
`errorCode`	string	Graph API error code.
`errorMessage`	string	Error description.
`payload`	string	Raw error response.

Sample Output JSON

{
  "status": "success",
  "deleted": true,
  "commentId": "17858893269000001",
  "payload": "{\"success\":true}"
}

Expression Reference

Expression	Value
`{{ $output.instagram.deleted }}`	Boolean deletion confirmation
`{{ $output.instagram.commentId }}`	Deleted comment ID for audit log

Node Policies & GuardRails

Audit before deleting: For compliance, always call comment/get before comment/delete to log the original comment content, author, and timestamp to your audit trail.
Prefer hide for borderline cases: Use comment/hide for comments requiring human review. Delete only when the violation is certain — deletion cannot be undone.
Permission boundary: You can only delete comments on your own media or your own authored comments. Attempting to delete another user's comment on someone else's media will fail with error 200.
GDPR compliance: When processing GDPR deletion requests, document the deletion action in your compliance log with the requestor ID, comment ID, and deletion timestamp.

Examples

Automated spam deletion pipeline

// Step 1: Get comment details
{
  "resource": "comments",
  "operation": "get",
  "commentId": "{{ $trigger.body.value.commentId }}"
}

// Step 2: Log to audit DB (custom DB node)
// Step 3: Delete if spam score > 0.9
{
  "resource": "comments",
  "operation": "delete",
  "accessToken": "{{ $credential.instagram.accessToken }}",
  "igUserId": "17841400000000000",
  "commentId": "{{ $trigger.body.value.commentId }}"
}

Delete own erroneous first comment

{
  "resource": "comments",
  "operation": "delete",
  "accessToken": "{{ $credential.instagram.accessToken }}",
  "igUserId": "17841400000000000",
  "commentId": "{{ $db.recentPosts.where(mediaId=$input.mediaId).firstCommentId }}"
}

Removes an auto-posted first comment that contained an incorrect promotion code, retrieved from the internal post tracking database.