# Instagram Stories Downloader (Variant 1)

> Instagram Stories Downloader (Variant 1) is a paid API for AI agents from blackbobs-ai.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.073833/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Downloads Instagram Stories content by retrieving media files from a specified Instagram user's stories feed

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://blackbobs-ai.vercel.app/api/ig-downloader-stories1
- Price: $0.073833/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/instagram-stories-downloader-variant-1-d1533084
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_TD2XTR4s8TU4qPcQ1oIhx

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-stories-downloader-variant-1-d1533084 -d '<json body>'
```

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

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically download or retrieve Instagram story media files on a pay-per-call basis without setting up your own Instagram scraping infrastructure. Prefer this over building a custom scraper when occasional, on-demand story downloads are needed, especially when cost predictability per call matters.

## Known failure modes

- Private account stories cannot be accessed without authentication credentials
- Instagram rate limiting or blocking may cause failed requests
- Story may have already expired (Instagram stories last 24 hours)
- Invalid or non-existent username returns empty or error result
- Instagram may change its internal API causing extraction failures
- Generic error response with minimal detail due to opaque schema

## 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 download links or media data for the requested Instagram stories, including direct URLs to video or image files, and potentially metadata such as story duration, timestamp, and media type.

## 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/instagram-stories-downloader-variant-1-d1533084/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from blackbobs-ai.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/blackbobs-ai.vercel.app/llms.txt)