# Instagram Stories Scraper

> Instagram Stories Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from kite-endpoints.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.16/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Scrapes and retrieves Instagram Stories content for a given user or set of users via the KiteEndpoints.ai hub

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://kite-endpoints.vercel.app/api/ig-scraper-stories
- Price: $0.16/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/instagram-stories-scraper-f9093a1c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_L6U9bqn8uImZdrS6fyDUm

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-scraper-f9093a1c -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape the current Instagram Stories from the account @natgeo and give me all the media URLs and timestamps?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically retrieve Instagram Stories content from public accounts without official Instagram API credentials, particularly for competitive research, brand monitoring, influencer audits, or social media analytics pipelines. Prefer this over the official Instagram Graph API when you need scraping without OAuth approval or when monitoring accounts you don't own.

## Known failure modes

- Private or restricted account returns no stories or access denied error
- Instagram rate limiting or anti-bot detection causes empty or failed response
- Invalid or non-existent username results in error or empty result
- Stories may have expired (Instagram stories last 24 hours) returning empty set
- Intermittent failures from Instagram platform changes breaking the scraper

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a result object containing scraped Instagram Stories data including story media URLs (image or video), story IDs, timestamps, and available metadata such as viewer counts or engagement indicators for the queried Instagram account.

## 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-scraper-f9093a1c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from kite-endpoints.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/kite-endpoints.vercel.app/llms.txt)