x402 Social Intel – Instagram Stories Fetcher

Choose this endpoint when you need programmatic access to Instagram Stories for a specific account and are comfortable paying per-call via USDC on Base mainnet using the x402 protocol. Prefer this over manual scraping or unofficial libraries when you need a managed, pay-as-you-go solution without maintaining your own Instagram session infrastructure.

• Account not found or private — returns 404 or empty stories array
• Instagram rate limiting or blocking — returns 429 or scraping error
• Invalid or missing username input — returns 400 bad request
• Payment not processed or insufficient USDC balance — returns 402 payment required
• Account has no active stories — returns empty result set
• Stale or expired session causing scrape failure — returns 500 or partial data