# Instagram Story Highlights Scraper

> Instagram Story Highlights Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Retrieves Instagram story highlights for a given user by handle or user ID

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.orthogonal.com/scrapecreators/v1/instagram/user/highlights
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/instagram-story-highlights-scraper-6e974f5f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Ve5szbCCGfVwmPD9qth09

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-story-highlights-scraper-6e974f5f
```

Example prompt: Can you pull all the story highlights from the Instagram account @natgeo so I can see what highlight reels they have?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to retrieve Instagram story highlights for a specific user by handle or user ID. Prefer providing user_id over handle for faster response times when you already have it. Choose this over general web scrapers when you need structured Instagram-specific highlight data rather than raw HTML.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent Instagram handle returns an error or empty result
- Private Instagram accounts may not expose highlights, returning restricted data
- Rate limiting or Instagram anti-scraping measures may cause failures
- Missing both handle and user_id parameters results in a validation error
- Instagram occasionally changes its internal API, which may break scraping temporarily

## How this service works

Story Highlights

## Output

Returns a list of Instagram story highlights associated with the given user, including highlight reel names, cover images, and metadata about each highlight collection on their profile.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "handle": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Instagram handle. Use user_id for faster response times."
      },
      "user_id": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Instagram user id. Use for faster response times."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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