See every public detail behind a post — dates, counts, tags, sound.
Everything Instagram publishes about a public post, on one card — read and exported on your device.
PostLens reads only the public post you paste — the same data Instagram already serves to anyone with the link. Nothing from your device is uploaded, and the caption workspace, counters and exports all run in your browser.
Paste the post's public link into PostLens: it reads Instagram's own upload timestamp and shows the exact date, weekday and clock time in your timezone, plus UTC and ISO — something Instagram's own app never displays. Copy it, or export it with everything else as JSON or CSV.
Yes — PostLens is completely free, asks for no account and uses no API keys. Paste any public reel, photo or carousel link and read the post's dates, counts, caption, hashtags, sound, tags and location straight away. When your own posts go live, DMrun (dmrun.com) turns the comments and DMs they earn into customers.
PostLens pulls every hashtag and @mention out of the caption automatically and shows them as copyable chips, deduplicated and counted against Instagram's 30-tag limit. Copy them in one tap, or send the caption straight to GlyphKit to restyle it before you repost.
Open the reel link in PostLens and read the sound panel: it names the track, the artist or the creator whose original audio it is, Instagram's audio id, and whether it is licensed music or an original sound. To save the audio itself, hand the same link to SoundPull.
Because Instagram does not publish them. View count, play count, video duration, comment text and Instagram's own alt text all come back empty for logged-out requests, so PostLens leaves them out instead of showing a zero that would be wrong. Like and comment counts do come through, stamped with the moment they were read.
Yes. Nothing is uploaded from your device — PostLens only asks for the public post you pasted, and the reading, counting and exporting all happen in your browser, on phone or desktop. It works with public posts only, so private accounts are never touched.
DMrun (dmrun.com) is shotMod's sibling product: AI Instagram DM automation that auto-replies to comments, Story replies and DMs to turn comments into customers. Once shotMod helps you make the content, DMrun helps you make money from it — 2,800+ creators run their DMs on it, with a free plan and a 2-minute setup.
PostLens is a free, no-login Instagram post metadata viewer from shotMod that reads everything Instagram publishes about a public post and lays it out on one card. Paste a reel, photo or carousel link and you get the exact upload date and time, like and comment counts, the full untruncated caption with its hashtags and mentions, the sound behind a reel, tagged accounts and the location. There's no login, no account and no API keys.
Nothing leaves your device: PostLens asks shotMod's resolver for the same public post Instagram already serves to anyone with the link, and every reading, counting and export step runs in your browser. It is honest about the limits. Instagram publishes no view count, play count, video duration, comment text or alt text to logged-out clients, so PostLens shows none of them rather than guessing — and because likes and comments drift between reads, every card is stamped with the moment it was read. Public posts only.
PostLens is one of the free Instagram tools on shotMod by SourceStrong AI — its caption workspace hands straight off to GlyphKit for fancy fonts and line breaks, and its sound panel to SoundPull. Once your content is live, its sibling tool DMrun (dmrun.com) can turn the comments and DMs it earns into customers.