Instagram Highlight Stories Scraper

Get the stories saved in a single Instagram highlight by highlight ID (from the User Highlights endpoint) or highlight URL. Returns the highlight's title and cover plus each story's media URLs, post date, link stickers, mentions, tagged users, location, and audio.

Features

• Real-time Instagram data — results are fetched live at run time, never cached or stale
• No login, cookies, or proxy configuration needed — just provide the input and run
• Each result is pushed as a separate dataset item, exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel
• Fast: a typical run finishes in seconds

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
highlight_id	string	yes	Highlight ID from the User Highlights endpoint, e.g. 17987606483520330, or a highlight URL like https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17987606483520330/ (max 500 characters)

Pricing

This Actor is billed per run — a flat $0.006 per run.

• One run returns all matching results for your input, and costs $0.006 — whether it comes back with one result or hundreds.
• You’re only charged when a run succeeds. Failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "highlight": {
    "highlight_id": "17987606483520330",
    "title": "Football \ud83c\udfc8",
    "media_count": 4,
    "cover_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/cover.jpg",
    "created_at": "2023-10-24 03:48:13",
    "created_at_timestamp": 1698114493,
    "updated_at": "2023-10-24 03:51:23",
    "updated_at_timestamp": 1698114683,
    "is_pinned": false,
    "url": "https://instagram.com/stories/highlights/17987606483520330/",
    "author": "mrbeast",
    "author_id": "2278169415"
  },
  "stories": [
    {
      "title": "@mrbeast on Instagram",
      "url": "https://instagram.com/stories/mrbeast/3219347044383400902/",
      "date": "2023-10-22 17:34:53",
      "date_timestamp": 1697996093,
      "expires_at": "",
      "expires_at_timestamp": null,
      "author": "mrbeast",
      "author_id": "2278169415",
      "author_name": "MrBeast",
      "author_verified": true,
      "source": "Instagram",
      "domain": "instagram.com",
      "snippet": "",
      "is_video": false,
      "media_type": "story",
      "media_id": "3219347044383400902",
      "thumbnail_url": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/story.jpg",
      "video_url": "",
      "video_duration": null,
      "width": 1284,
      "height": 2282,
      "location": null,
      "tagged_users": [],
      "mentions": [
        "buccaneers"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "audio": null,
      "coauthors": [],
      "is_paid_partnership": false
    }
  ],
  "count": 4
}

About

Maintained by Data Direct — a small suite of fast, reliable Instagram and web-data scrapers. Each actor returns clean, structured results with no login, cookies, or proxy setup required. Have a question or a custom data need? Open an issue on this actor.