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Instagram Story Downloader
Scrape and optionally download Instagram stories for specified usernames using Playwright. Also obtain metadata for stories, such as story id, publish date, expiry date, mentions, links and etc.
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Scrapes Instagram stories for given usernames. Collects story metadata including media URLs, mentions, hashtags, locations, and music information. Optionally downloads media files to the key-value store.
Input
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
usernames | array | Yes | List of Instagram usernames to scrape stories from (max 100) |
maxStoriesPerUser | integer | No | Maximum number of stories to extract per user (default: 20, max: 200) |
Example Input
Output
Each story is saved as a separate item in the dataset with the following fields:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
story_id | string | Unique Instagram story ID |
shortcode | string | Instagram shortcode for the story |
story_url | string | Direct URL to the story |
profile_id | string | Instagram profile ID of the user |
username | string | Username of the story owner |
uploaded_at | string | ISO timestamp when the story was uploaded |
expires_at | string | ISO timestamp when the story expires |
media_type | string | Type of media (video or image) |
mentions | array | List of mentioned usernames |
hashtags | array | List of hashtags used |
locations | array | List of location URLs tagged |
music | array | Music tracks with track_name and artist |
links | array | External links in the story |
attached_posts | array | Attached post URLs |
saved_as | string | Filename in the key-value store |
download_url | string | URL to download the media file |
Example Output
