Can I find Instagram Stories using the Public API?

Question

Released here: http://blog.instagram.com/post/148348940287/160802-stories

No note of Stories being available via the API.

Answer 1

This is available now, but only if the user authorizes your app. The user's account would also need to be an Instagram Business Account.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/user/stories

Answer 2

There is no public API, but you can get the story json data by going to instagram.com login with your account and paste this code in the console, it will output data in console

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
  if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
     console.log(xhttp.responseText);
  }
};
xhttp.open("GET", "https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/feed/reels_tray/", true);
xhttp.send();

(you have to do it from instagram.com and user logged in)

Answer 3

Yes, with two endpoints:

1. Perform a GET to https://www.instagram.com/{username}/?__a=1 to get the user id under ROOT.graphql.user.id

2. Perform a GET to https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/feed/user/{user_id}/reel_media/ and be sure to use a valid User-Agent header (e.g.: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148 Instagram 105.0.0.11.118 (iPhone11,8; iOS 12_3_1; en_US; en-US; scale=2.00; 828x1792; 165586599))

Remember this only works for public profiles, if you need something private (i.e. visible from your profile) you need to add two coockies to the requests: ds_user_id and sessionid. You can get those values with browser extensions (e.g.: EditThisCookie). Also, never share these values with anyone because they represent your authentication to Instagram.

Lastly: yes, the stories you will get from the endpoint won't be shown as watched.