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[Deprecated] Instagram Stories & Highlights Scraper
DeprecatedPricing
from $0.90 / 1,000 profiles
Export accessible Instagram Stories and Highlights with direct media URLs, timestamps, captions, links, mentions, hashtags, stickers, music, profile metrics, and Highlight context. Use usernames, profile URLs, date filters, CSV, Excel, JSON, API, or MCP. Authorized session cookie required.
Improvement: Added privacy-safe error diagnostics for failed and partially completed profile checks.
Improvement: Reused HTTP connections and fetched independent Story and Highlight discovery resources concurrently for faster profile checks.
Improvement: Added a run-wide request budget, classified retries, and a persistence reserve so long runs stop safely without starting excess requests.
Improvement: Improved interrupted-run recovery so profiles with durably saved and charged output are not repeated after a restart.
Improvement: Coupled each paid profile outcome to a saved output row where one exists, and made billing persistence failures stop the run clearly.
Fix: Fixed authenticated profile requests that could be redirected instead of returning Stories and Highlights.
Improvement: Public examples can now be updated without saving a session value; runs still require an authorized session before billing.
Improvement: Session input is now validated before a run is billed, and rejected profiles are no longer charged as successful profile checks.
Improvement: All-failed batches now fail clearly; mixed batches preserve accessible media and report partial completion.
Improvement: Added bounded retries, request pacing, batched Highlight retrieval, duplicate protection, date filtering, and a safe run deadline.
Improvement: Added direct media variants, dimensions, duration, audio, links, mentions, hashtags, stickers, music, profile metrics, Highlight ordering, and scrape timestamps.
Improvement: Expanded input, output, dataset, and run-summary schemas plus session-safety and troubleshooting guidance.
Improvement: Clarified inputs, outputs, pricing, cookie handling, and Instagram access limits.
Improvement: Initial release with Story, Highlight, profile-context, and status rows.
