# Coockies.ai Instagram Stories Downloader

> Coockies.ai Instagram Stories Downloader is a paid API for AI agents from coockies-ai.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.073833/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-22).

Downloads Instagram Stories content by fetching story media data for a given Instagram user or story URL

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://coockies-ai.vercel.app/api/ig-downloader-stories1
- Price: $0.073833/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/coockies-ai-instagram-stories-downloader-656c9de3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_W0Rt_XCRXiGUcJmhvcjiq

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability coockies-ai-instagram-stories-downloader-656c9de3 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you download the Instagram stories from the account @natgeo so I can save them before they disappear?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically download or archive Instagram Stories content and want a pay-per-call model without managing your own Instagram scraping infrastructure. Prefer this over building custom scrapers when you need quick access to story media URLs on a per-request basis.

## Known failure modes

- Private account stories inaccessible without authentication credentials
- Story already expired (Instagram stories last 24 hours)
- Invalid or non-existent Instagram username returns empty result
- Instagram rate limiting or blocking causes request failure
- Malformed input schema leads to undefined behavior given the generic schema structure

## How this service works

194 production-ready API endpoints. AI, Search, Social, Finance, Crypto. Pay-per-call with x402 on Base chain.

## Output

Returns a result object containing story media data such as video or image URLs, story identifiers, and associated metadata extracted from the specified Instagram account's active stories.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "result": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "API response data"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "example": {
  "result": {
   "data": "example response"
  }
 },
 "properties": {
  "result": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "API response data"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/coockies-ai-instagram-stories-downloader-656c9de3/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from coockies-ai.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/coockies-ai.vercel.app/llms.txt)