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# How to get hashtag suggestions for Instagram in Hootsuite

| Updated September 11, 2025

**You can generate hashtags for your Instagram uploads (photos) right inside Hootsuite's publishing field, for their web-to-Instagram scheduling solution.**

**JUST ADDED**: The RiteTag extension's hashtags for image solution shown in the video below also works with all web to **Instagram direct publishing** and scheduling solutions, including Hootsuite's - **and all the others, too**! Just follow the instructions for desktop-to-phone Instagram scheduling in the video for use in direct Instagram desktop upload solutions.  

## Here's how the RiteTag Pro extension works in Hootsuite, Buffer, Twitter and Instagram. It works within all social media networks and publishing tools:

${youtube}[Generating hashtags for Instagram and beyond for text and photos in Hootsuite, Buffer and everywhere](YUFtEpBBhQ4)

1) Firstly, you will need to have the RiteTag extension for [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ritetag/hclhpnhohpmlbadmeieecaandnglfodm) or [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ritetag-ritekit/) installed. [Here's how](https://ritekit.crisp.help/en/article/heres-how-to-add-the-ritetag-pro-browser-extension-to-a-browser-such-as-operavivaldibraveetc-that-uses-chrome-browser-extensions-d5gb1s/) to use the Chrome extension in your Vivaldi, Torch, Brave, Opera, Dolphin, Yandex, Puffin, and Microsoft Edge browsers.

2) Start a new post in **Hootsuite** with your image caption and upload your image.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/4d6cdb9585053400/a65f242b-f992-4337-8484-4f68b3_orosov.png)

3)  Right-click the photo and select **Generate Hashtags**.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/57c0fbb3ee8da800/4d62e4f6-acf5-4e38-83c0-857b45_xs0bt9.png)

4) Click the **Copy** button to copy all hashtags to your clipboard.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/db60722caa8ee800/08b17c8a-3e94-4c98-ba78-f92f22_15p2wjh.png)

5) Paste the hashtags to your post, preferably two lines below the caption (not shown).  
TIP: you can also generate hashtags for the caption or Tweet, and text post by right-clicking in the text field of the Hootsuite publisher.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/67a104df462f2800/66fe92b1-dbda-43ef-9a3a-a1bf80_1ynsxod.png)

You can also right-click images in any web page for the **Generate Hashtags** solution, even if you didn't upload the image to a **Hootsuite, Buffer, Tailwind, Later, Onlypult** or other publishing composer. Also, there's a button beside search, on the left side on the **RiteTag Hashtag Bar**, for getting hashtags for any image in your computer: the up arrow button.  

**Everything above is for RiteTag X Hootsuite; RiteBoost does far more than hashtags**

Instead of hashtag suggestions only, if you would like a one-step solution for image, author-attribution, auto-hashtagging, auto-emojis and even the option to place your self-branded ad (test, image or video) on URLs in your posts, please see this tutorial on RiteBoost X Hootsuite:

[How to use the RiteBoost Hootsuite application](https://ritekit.crisp.help/en/article/how-to-use-the-riteboost-browser-extension-in-hootsuite-2wn7dw/)

## See Basic Mechanics, in the full [RiteTag Extension Tutorial](https://ritekit.crisp.help/en/article/ritetag-pro-20-browser-extension-tutorial-1jve5fa/), for instructions on:

* Copy and Search features
* Opening/closing the Hashtag Bar
* Navigate through your last searches
* Comparing generated hashtags based on real time engagement analytics

[Using the RiteTag browser extension everywhere](https://ritekit.crisp.help/en/article/ritetag-pro-20-browser-extension-tutorial-1jve5fa/)

#### See also:

[Using RiteTag in your favorite sites and social media tools](https://ritekit.crisp.help/en/category/ritetag-1g4fj9g/)

[How to get hashtag suggestions in Buffer](https://ritekit.crisp.help/en/article/how-to-get-hashtag-suggestions-for-instagram-in-buffer-2zl8z/)