# Instagram Video & Media Downloader v2

> Instagram Video & Media Downloader v2 is a paid API for AI agents from coockies-ai.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.128745/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12, last successful call 2026-08-11).

Downloads Instagram videos, reels, stories, and other media content given a post URL

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://coockies-ai.vercel.app/api/ig-downloader-v2?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.128745/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Last successful call: 2026-08-11
- Activations on Zero: 1
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/instagram-video-media-downloader-v2-14a2a345
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_x3kLrOK6yhHNi8mW8nRaJ

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-video-media-downloader-v2-14a2a345 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you download this Instagram reel for me — https://www.instagram.com/reel/ABC123xyz/ — and give me a direct link to the video file?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically download or extract media from Instagram posts, reels, or stories without requiring Instagram API credentials. Prefer this over manual downloading when automating content archival, media repurposing workflows, or when building tools that need to fetch Instagram video content at scale via a pay-per-call model.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed Instagram URL returns an error
- Private or restricted Instagram accounts may not be accessible
- Instagram API/scraping blocks or rate limits may cause failures
- Deleted or expired content returns not-found error
- Stories that have already expired will fail to download
- Geo-restricted content may not be retrievable

## 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 URL(s) for the requested Instagram media, which may include direct video file links, thumbnail URLs, and basic post metadata such as title or caption.

## 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-video-media-downloader-v2-14a2a345/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)