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Instagram Stories & Highlights Scraper

Scrape public Instagram story highlights and the live 24-hour story tray for one or more usernames. Returns one record per story item with original media URLs, timestamps, captions, music, mentions and links as structured JSON. No login required for highlights.

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from $2.50 / 1,000 story item saveds

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Developer

Khadin Akbar

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8 days ago

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Social media

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You can access the Instagram Stories & Highlights Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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OpenAPI

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          "includeHighlights": {
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Instagram Stories & Highlights Scraper OpenAPI definition

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