Stories
The stories a profile currently has live.
Returns the stories a profile has live right now. Stories expire after 24 hours, so an empty list means the account has nothing live at the moment rather than that the account could not be read.
Instagram publishes a post's view count only for video. Photo and carousel posts return null rather than zero, because zero would be a claim we cannot support.
Share and save counts are visible only to the account that owns a post. No public surface carries them, so we never populate them.
The example response below is real output from this endpoint, not an illustration. Long lists and long strings are shortened to keep the page readable, and each place that happens is marked. This example took 9.4s.
Authorization
ApiKeyAuth Your API key. Sent on every request.
In: header
Request Body
application/json
TypeScript Definitions
Use the request body type in TypeScript.
Response Body
application/json
application/json
application/json
application/json
curl -X POST "https://example.com/v1/scrapers/instagram_story" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "url": "https://www.instagram.com/stories/martingarrix/" }'{ "request_id": "req_8f2c1d94e7b0", "success": true, "status": { "code": "OK", "message": "Scrape completed.", "retryable": false }, "data": { "message": "Successfully scraped active stories", "profile_id": "30464350", "status": "ok", "stories": [ { "id": "3969682528270419691", "media_category": "image", "media_sources": [ { "resolution": "1320x2346", "type": "image", "url": "https://scontent-ord5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/781804799_18635232505000351_8711828663842843825_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ig_cache_key=Mzk2OTY4MjUyODI3MDQxOTY5MQ%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&_nc_aid=0&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IlNUT1JZLnhwaWRzLjEzMjAuc2RyLnJlZ3VsYXJfcGhvdG8uQzMifQ%3D%3D&_nc_ohc… (+258 chars)" }, { "resolution": "1080x1919", "type": "image", "url": "https://scontent-ord5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/781804799_18635232505000351_8711828663842843825_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_p1080x1080_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ig_cache_key=Mzk2OTY4MjUyODI3MDQxOTY5MQ%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&_nc_aid=0&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IlNUT1JZLnhwaWRzLjEzMjAuc2RyLnJlZ3VsYXJfcGhvdG8uQzMifQ%3D… (+269 chars)" }, "… 12 more items in the full response" ], "original_height": 2346, "original_width": 1320, "taken_at": 1787443055, "video_duration_seconds": null }, { "id": "3969685087263939738", "media_category": "video", "media_sources": [ { "resolution": "640x1136", "type": "image", "url": "https://scontent-ord5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.71878-15/780181263_1020083381007912_13748228522196261_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ig_cache_key=Mzk2OTY4NTA4NzI2MzkzOTczOA%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IlNUT1JZLnhwaWRzLjY0MC5zZHIudmlkZW9fZGVmYXVsdF9jb3Zlcl9mcmFtZS5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=Rd76… (+253 chars)" }, { "resolution": "480x852", "type": "image", "url": "https://scontent-ord5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.71878-15/780181263_1020083381007912_13748228522196261_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_p480x480_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ig_cache_key=Mzk2OTY4NTA4NzI2MzkzOTczOA%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IlNUT1JZLnhwaWRzLjY0MC5zZHIudmlkZW9fZGVmYXVsdF9jb3Zlcl9mcmFtZS5DMyJ9&_nc… (+262 chars)" }, "… 8 more items in the full response" ], "original_height": 1920, "original_width": 1080, "taken_at": 1787443355, "video_duration_seconds": 28.791 } ], "success": true, "username": "martingarrix" }, "error": null, "meta": { "client_id": "client_abc123", "scraper": "instagram_story", "billable": true, "duration_ms": 8724 }}