Instagram Highlights Scraper

Use DataVoyantLab's Instagram Highlights Scraper on Apify to extract story items from public Instagram Highlight URLs.

This skill uses a paid external service on Apify. It requires a paid Apify account or an approved DataVoyantLab Free-user entitlement.

The validated Highlight URLs are sent to Apify to perform the scrape. Tell the user this before execution. Never send the Apify token anywhere except the documented Apify API.

Actor contract

• Actor ID: sUluczVbvIYrxH5n7
• Store page: https://apify.com/datavoyantlab/instagram-highlights-scraper-api-by-url
• Input: {"links": ["https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/1234567890/"]}
• Billing events: Actor start plus submitted Highlight links

This Actor expects Highlight URLs, not profile URLs or usernames. Route current 24-hour Stories to instagram-stories-scraper.

Prepare the request

1. Require APIFY_TOKEN and never display or persist it.
2. Accept only HTTPS Instagram URLs whose path begins with /stories/highlights/ followed by a numeric Highlight ID.
3. Remove URL fragments and tracking parameters, normalize the trailing slash, remove duplicates, and reject invalid URLs.
4. Construct JSON with jq and include:

{
  "skill": true,
  "skillName": "instagram-highlights-scraper",
  "skillVersion": "1.0.1"
}

Verify pricing and set the cap

Fetch https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sUluczVbvIYrxH5n7. Select the latest active entry in .data.pricingInfos and read the Actor-start price plus link-request.eventPriceUsd.

Calculate:

maximum charge = actor start + (unique link count × link-request) + $0.01

Round up to the next cent. If active pricing or either required event is missing, do not start the run.

Get explicit approval

Before every billable run, show the user:

• the Instagram Highlights Scraper Actor and number of unique Highlight links;
• the current Actor-start and per-link prices;
• the exact maxTotalChargeUsd cap; and
• that the Apify account linked to APIFY_TOKEN will be billed.

Ask the user to explicitly approve that exact charge cap. A request to extract Highlights is not payment authorization. Do not send a run request without an affirmative reply. If the links, pricing, or cap change, recalculate and ask again.

Run

For 10 or fewer Highlight links, use:

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sUluczVbvIYrxH5n7/run-sync-get-dataset-items
  ?timeout=300
  &clean=true
  &format=json
  &maxTotalChargeUsd=<calculated cap>
Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN
Content-Type: application/json

For larger batches, use POST /v2/acts/sUluczVbvIYrxH5n7/runs?waitForFinish=60&maxTotalChargeUsd=<cap>, poll the run to terminal status, then fetch its default dataset.

Run only after the approval above.

Return

Return the complete dataset items, the maximum authorized charge, and the run and dataset identifiers when available. Group or count the returned story items by submitted Highlight URL without removing the raw fields.

An empty successful result can mean that a Highlight is unavailable, private, expired, or contains no retrievable public items. Report that fact without inventing data.

If Apify rejects an unapproved Free account, tell the user to email datavoyant@gmail.com with their Apify user ID to request access.