Instagram Highlights Scraper Plus 📸✨

Extract Instagram story highlights from any public Instagram profile — in bulk, as clean structured data. Give it a profile URL or username and get every highlight's title, ID, media count, created date, last-updated date, deep link and full-resolution cover image, plus optional per-story media (image/video URLs, timestamps, duration, dimensions, accessibility captions) and profile metadata (followers, verified, bio, category, website).

This is an enhanced Instagram highlights scraper / Instagram stories scraper for marketing research, competitor analysis, content backup, and lead generation.

Features

• 🎯 Bulk profiles — scrape highlights from many Instagram accounts in one run (URL, username, or @handle).
• ⭐ Highlight metadata — id, title, mediaCount, createdAt (ISO), latestReelMediaAt (ISO), reelType, isPinned, highlightUrl deep link.
• 🖼️ Full-resolution covers — all cover image variants, not just the 150px thumbnail (coverImageUrl, coverImageVariants, coverMediaId).
• 📺 Story items (optional) — the individual stories inside each highlight: mediaType, mediaUrl / videoUrl / imageUrl, takenAt, expiringAt, videoDuration, width, height, accessibilityCaption. Emitted as child rows linked to the parent highlight via parentId, and mirrored to a per-run stories-<runId> dataset.
• 👤 Profile metadata (optional) — profileFullName, profileBio, profileFollowers, profileFollowing, profileVerified, profileCategory, profileExternalUrl, profilePicUrl.
• 🔍 Filters — include/exclude title keywords, minimum media count, and a max-highlights-per-profile cap (maxItems counts highlights, not stories).
• 🖼️ Media download (optional) — save cover images and story media to the run's key-value store.
• 🛡️ Reliable fetching — resolves each profile live; primary private-API tray fetch (no fragile relay tokens) with a paginated GraphQL fallback; automatic proxy escalation (your selection → datacenter → residential) on Instagram rate-limits/blocks.

Input

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	Instagram profile URLs / usernames / @handles.
maxItems	integer	Max highlights (parent rows) per profile. 0 = unlimited. Stories don't count against it.
keywords	array	Keep only highlights whose title contains one of these words.
excludeKeywords	array	Drop highlights whose title contains any of these words.
minMediaCount	integer	Keep only highlights with at least this many stories.
includeProfileMetadata	boolean	Attach owner profile metadata to each highlight row (default true).
includeStories	boolean	Fetch the stories inside each highlight as child rows (default false).
maxStoriesPerHighlight	integer	Cap stories fetched per highlight. 0 = all.
downloadMedia	boolean	Save cover / story media to the key-value store (default false).
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings; automatic datacenter → residential fallback on blocks.

Example input

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/nasa/"],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "includeStories": true,
  "maxStoriesPerHighlight": 10,
  "includeProfileMetadata": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Output

Each highlight is one parent row (type = "highlight", isChild = false). When includeStories is enabled, each story is a child row (type = "story", isChild = true, parentId = <highlight id>) interleaved right after its highlight and also written to the stories-<runId> dataset.

{
  "type": "highlight",
  "isChild": false,
  "username": "nasa",
  "userId": "528817151",
  "id": "17895695668004550",
  "title": "Artemis",
  "mediaCount": 24,
  "createdAt": "2021-08-19T18:03:11Z",
  "latestReelMediaAt": "2024-05-01T12:00:00Z",
  "highlightUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17895695668004550/",
  "coverImageUrl": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/....jpg",
  "coverMediaId": "2648...",
  "profileFollowers": 97000000,
  "profileVerified": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-02T10:00:00Z"
}

Notes & compliance

• Only public profiles are supported (logged-out access). Private profiles return an error row (not billed).
• Instagram content URLs (covers, story media) are time-limited CDN links; use downloadMedia if you need to keep the assets.
• Scrape responsibly and in line with Instagram's terms and applicable laws; use scraped data lawfully.

Keywords

instagram highlights scraper, instagram stories scraper, instagram story highlights, instagram highlight downloader, instagram profile scraper, instagram cover image extractor, instagram highlight metadata, instagram data extraction, social media scraper, instagram marketing research, competitor analysis, instagram bulk scraper.