# Instagram Story highlights API (instagram.highlights)

- Canonical page: https://everyinfra.com/en/instagram-api/highlights
- Endpoint: POST /api/v1/social with {"platform": "instagram", "action": "highlights", "params": {...}}
- Price: $0.001597 per call ($1.6 per 1,000 requests); failed and empty results are not charged
- Returns: list, default 100, max 100 per call (larger values are capped)
- Mode: sync; add "mode": "async" for slow tasks

## Health

- Live health (24h percent, hourly and daily trends): https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social/availability?platform=instagram&action=highlights

## Parameters

| name | type | required | default | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| username | not declared | yes | not declared | The account whose story highlights you want, such as `nasa`; a leading @ is removed and a profile link works too. |
| limit | integer (1–100) | no | 100 | The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 100. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values are accepted and capped at the maximum. |

## Response fields (items in `results`)

| field | meaning |
|---|---|
| id | The record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms. |
| url | Link to the record on the platform. |
| title | Title. null when the platform has no titles (for example text-only posts). |
| media_count | platform-native meaning |
| cover_url | platform-native meaning |
| created_at | Creation time, same format as posted_at. |
| updated_at | platform-native meaning |
| is_pinned | platform-native meaning |
| author_username | Author's username (@handle), usually usable in URLs. |
| author_id | Author's unique ID on the platform. |
| author_name | Author's display name. |
| platform | Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok). |

## Example

```bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "platform": "instagram",
  "action": "highlights",
  "params": {
    "username": "nasa"
  }
}'
```

```python
import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['EVERYINFRA_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "platform": "instagram",
        "action": "highlights",
        "params": {
            "username": "nasa",
        },
    },
    timeout=120,
)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.json())
```

## Response example

No real sample for these example parameters yet: structure only, every value is a placeholder (…).

```text
{
  "id": "req_…",
  "platform": "instagram",
  "action": "highlights",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": …,
      "url": …,
      "title": …,
      "media_count": …,
      "cover_url": …,
      "created_at": …,
      "updated_at": …,
      "is_pinned": …,
      "author_username": …,
      "author_id": …,
      "author_name": …,
      "platform": …
    }
  ],
  "count": …,
  "billing": {
    "charged": …,
    "charged_usd": …,
    "balance_after_usd": …,
    …
  },
  "quota": { … }
}
```

## Also

- Capability catalog (no key): https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social/catalog?platform=instagram
- OpenAPI: https://everyinfra.com/openapi.json · Agents guide: https://everyinfra.com/agents.md