# Instagram Highlight Stories Fetcher

> Instagram Highlight Stories Fetcher is a paid API for AI agents from x402.apidirect.io, paid per call via x402, $0.007/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Retrieves all stories saved within a single Instagram highlight reel by highlight ID or highlight URL.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.apidirect.io/v1/instagram/highlight/stories?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.007/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/instagram-highlight-stories-fetcher-ad479453
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6UfP7W8S2QdPE6MzYVT_G

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 instagram-highlight-stories-fetcher-ad479453
```

Example prompt: Can you pull all the stories from the Instagram highlight with ID 17987606483520330 and show me what's in it?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically access the individual story items within a known Instagram highlight reel, identified either by numeric highlight ID or full highlight URL. It is the right choice when you already have a highlight ID from the User Highlights endpoint and want to drill into its contents. Prefer this over general Instagram scraping tools when you specifically need per-story data within a highlight rather than profile-level or post-level data.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent highlight ID returns an error or empty result
- Highlight has been deleted or made private, resulting in access error
- Malformed highlight URL not recognized by the parser
- Rate limiting or quota exceeded on the underlying Instagram data source
- Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks the request

## How this service works

Get the stories saved in a single Instagram highlight by highlight ID (from the User Highlights endpoint) or highlight URL.

## Output

Returns a list of stories contained within the specified Instagram highlight, including story media items, metadata such as timestamps, media type, and other story-level attributes associated with the highlight reel.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "highlight_id"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "highlight_id": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 500,
       "description": "Highlight ID from the User Highlights endpoint, e.g. 17987606483520330, or a highlight URL like https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17987606483520330/ (max 500 characters)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/instagram-highlight-stories-fetcher-ad479453/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.apidirect.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.apidirect.io/llms.txt)