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Instagram Stories Scraper

Capture Instagram Stories from any public profile before they disappear — no login. Get story media URLs, timestamps, stickers, mentions, music info, links, and swipe-up data. Competitive intelligence and brand monitoring for ephemeral content. No cookies. JSON/CSV/Excel.

runs · 30d: 28.7K
success · 30d: 95.9%
runs all time: 39.5K
users · 30d: 274

POST/v2/acts/data-slayer~instagram-stories-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items

request

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/data-slayer~instagram-stories-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "usernames": [
      "nba"
    ]
  }'

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor('data-slayer/instagram-stories-scraper').call({
  "usernames": [
    "nba"
  ]
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])

run = client.actor("data-slayer/instagram-stories-scraper").call(run_input={
    "usernames": [
        "nba",
    ],
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

each result row44 fields

{
  "creator_username": string,
  "creator_id": string,
  "creator_full_name": string,
  "creator_verified": boolean,
  "creator_profile_pic_url": string,
  "caption_text": string,
  "media_url": string,
  "story_type": string,
  "thumbnail_url": string,
  "story_link_url": string,
  "has_link": boolean,
  "story_permalink": string,
  "id": string,
  "code": string,
  // + 30 more fields
}

Output fields

44 documented fields per record. Showing the first 40.

Field	Type	Description
creator_username	string · nullable	Public handle that posted the story (from the upstream user.username).
creator_id	string · nullable	Stable Instagram user id of the creator.
creator_full_name	string · nullable
creator_verified	boolean · nullable
creator_profile_pic_url	string · nullable
caption_text	string · nullable	Story caption text when present.
media_url	string · nullable	Direct media URL for the story (image or video).
story_type	string · nullable
thumbnail_url	string · nullable
story_link_url	string · nullable	Target of the link sticker (swipe-up) when the story has one.
has_link	boolean · nullable
story_permalink	string · nullable	Canonical https://www.instagram.com/stories/<user>/<id>/ URL.
id	string · nullable	Instagram media id of the story.
code	string · nullable
taken_at	integer · nullable
taken_at_ts	integer · nullable
taken_at_date	string · nullable
expiring_at	integer · nullable
expires_at_date	string · nullable
media_type	integer · nullable	Upstream media type (1 = image, 2 = video).
media_name	string · nullable
media_format	string · nullable
product_type	string · nullable
is_video	boolean · nullable
is_reel_media	boolean · nullable
original_width	integer · nullable
original_height	integer · nullable
is_paid_partnership	boolean · nullable
video_url	string · nullable
video_duration	number · nullable
video_versions	array · nullable
has_audio	boolean · nullable
user	object · nullable	Raw upstream Instagram user node.
caption	object · nullable	Raw upstream caption node.
image_versions	object · nullable	Raw upstream image_versions node (items[].url).
location	object · nullable
story_link_stickers	array · nullable
story_music_stickers	array · nullable
reel_mentions	array · nullable
story_polls	array · nullable

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Frequently asked questions

What does Instagram Stories Scraper return?+

How much does Instagram Stories Scraper cost?+

It is priced at $1.50 per 1,000 results (lowest tier), billed through your Apify account. Failed runs are not billed as results.

What format does the data come back in?+

Typed JSON records by default. You can also download a run's dataset as CSV or Excel, or stream it into your own stack.

How reliable is this scraper?+

Over the last 30 days it ran 28.7K times with a 95.9% success rate.

How do I run it?+

POST a JSON body to the actor's run endpoint with your Apify token, or open it on Apify and start a run from the console.

Run Instagram Stories Scraper on Apify

One request, structured rows back. Pay per result through your Apify account.

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