Instagram story API without login: one story or every active story

The link the share sheet produces — instagram.com/stories/<username>/<id>/ — resolves to that one story. No login, no session: the request is the link and your key, and the answer is a direct URL to the video or image.

curl -s "https://api.saveapi.org/v1/instagram" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_xxxx" \
  -G --data-urlencode "url=https://www.instagram.com/stories/nasa/3981078788746068381/"

Drop the id and pass instagram.com/stories/<username>/ — the response holds every story the account has live at that moment, in the order they were posted. This is the call to use when a user pastes a profile rather than a story.

curl -s "https://api.saveapi.org/v1/instagram" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_xxxx" \
  -G --data-urlencode "url=https://www.instagram.com/stories/nasa/"

Each element of medias[] is one story: a video or an image with a direct URL. Ten active stories give ten entries. An account with nothing live comes back as MEDIA_NOT_FOUND — that is the correct answer, not a failure on our side, and it is why the code is final.

data = resolve("https://www.instagram.com/stories/nasa/")

# Har element bitta story: video yoki rasm, e'lon qilingan tartibda
for media in data["medias"]:
    print(media["type"], media["url"])

A story call costs 5 credits whether it returns one story or twelve — the price is per resolved link, and it is the most expensive call in the API because the sources that can read stories are the most expensive to run. Private accounts are not readable at any price: you get PRIVATE_CONTENT and 0.1 credits are charged.

The media URL is a signed CDN address and the story itself expires 24 hours after posting. If you need the file, download it when you resolve it; resolving again tomorrow returns nothing, because there is nothing left to resolve.

curl -sL -o video.mp4 "<medias[0].url>"