Get the stories in an Instagram highlight API

Returns the contents of one story highlight by its id. The answer has a `reels` object keyed by "highlight:<id>"; each highlight holds the owner and an `items` array where one item is one story (video or image). No pagination cursor is shown.

1 live route on Instagram, from $0.00099 per call. Every route below answered our last live test on 2026-10-06; the gateway re-tests them daily.

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Provider	Endpoint	Price	Tested
FlashAPI	User Highlights by id_highligt`GET ig/highlights`	$0.00099$0.99 / 1k calls	✓ 2026-10-06pricing ↗

What it returns

From a real call to the route: FlashAPI.

reels.highlight:18223279177302854.idHighlight id with the highlight: prefixreels.highlight:18223279177302854.user.usernameUsername of the highlight ownerreels.highlight:18223279177302854.user.idOwner user idreels.highlight:18223279177302854.items[].idStory media idreels.highlight:18223279177302854.items[].codeStory shortcodereels.highlight:18223279177302854.items[].taken_atUnix timestamp when the story was postedreels.highlight:18223279177302854.items[].media_typeMedia kind code (2 = video)reels.highlight:18223279177302854.items[].video_durationVideo length in secondsreels.highlight:18223279177302854.items[].video_versions[].urlVideo file URLreels.highlight:18223279177302854.items[].image_versions2.candidates[].urlCover/still image URLreels.highlight:18223279177302854.items[].reel_mentions[].user.usernameUser mentioned in the story

Call it

HTTP with your key in x-api-key, or the call_endpoint tool of our MCP server.

GET /api/gw/flashapi/ig/highlights$0.00099 / call✓ working · tested 2026-10-064.39 s latency

Parameters

Parameter	Type		Notes
nocors	string · query	optional	default false
id_highlight	string · query	required	e.g. `18223279177302854`

HTTP

curl "https://fetchapi.co/api/gw/flashapi/ig/highlights?nocors=false&id_highlight=18223279177302854" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

MCP

call_endpoint("flashapi.user_highlights_by_id_highligt", {"nocors": "false", "id_highlight": "18223279177302854"})

Real example answer (trimmed) · 2026-10-03

{
  "reels": {
    "highlight:18223279177302854": {
      "id": "highlight:18223279177302854",
      "seen": null,
      "user": {
        "id": "25025320",
        "pk": 25025320,
        "pk_id": "25025320",
        "username": "instagram",
        "full_name": "Access delayed. Only the owner of the page can access this information",
        "is_private": false,
        "is_verified": true,
        "strong_id__": "25025320",
        "account_badges": [],
        "profile_pic_id": "3725434617063385984_25025320",
        "profile_pic_url": "https://instagram.fkiv3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-19/550891366_18667771684001321_13832106565771770…",
        "fifa_country_code": "CA",
        "interop_messaging_user_fbid": 117943452927407,
        "transparency_product_enabled": false,
        "…": "1 more fields"
      },
      "items": [
        {
          "id": "3398250234472938888_25025320",
          "pk": 3398250234472939000,
          "code": "C8pApVjpb2I",
          "fbid": 17885095394999948,
          "user": {
            "id": "25025320",
            "pk": 25025320,
            "pk_id": "25025320",
            "fbid_v2": 17841400039600392,
            "username": "instagram",
            "full_name": "Access delayed. Only the owner of the page can access this information",
            "is_private": false,
            "is_verified": true,
            "strong_id__": "25025320",
            "account_type": 3,
            "account_badges": [],
            "profile_pic_id": "3725434617063385984_25025320",
            "profile_pic_url": "https://instagram.fkiv3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-19/550891366_18667771684001321_13832106565771770…",
            "eligible_for_text_app_activation_badge": false
          },
          "caption": null,
          "taken_at": 1719323002,
          "can_reply": false,
          "has_audio": true,
          "media_type": 2,
          "can_reshare": true,
          "filter_type": 0,
          "mezql_token": "",
          "strong_id__": "3398250234472938888_25025320",
          "…": "71 more fields"
        },
        "… 3 more"
      ],
      "title": "close friends",
      "is_nux": false,
      "can_reply": false,
      "media_ids": [
        3398250234472939000,
        "… 3 more"
      ],
      "reel_type": "highlight_reel",
      "created_at": 1719606671,
      "can_reshare": true,
      "cover_media": {
        "media_id": null,
        "crop_rect": null,
        "upload_id": null,
        "full_image_version": null,
        "cropped_image_version": {
          "url": "https://instagram.fkiv3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.71878-15/756700225_1653985762331725_842930084950050702…",
          "width": 150,
          "height": 150,
          "scans_profile": ""
        }
      },
      "is_archived": false,
      "media_count": 49,
      "…": "17 more fields"
    }
  },
  "status": "ok"
}

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