Updated October 20, 2026

API changelog

Every change that affects a request or its price, newest first. The date of the newest entry is the date the API pages were last updated.

October 20, 2026

StoriesFly API v1

The public API v1 is live at /api/v1/. It returns public Instagram data as JSON: profiles, posts, reels, stories, highlights, comments, followers, hashtags, places and search.
A request needs one X-Api-Key header. You never log in to Instagram or Facebook.
Requests are paid from a prepaid balance in US dollars. One call, or one page of a list, takes one request from the balance. Every request costs $1.50 per 1,000 today; lower rates for larger top-ups open soon. The balance never expires.
Sign in with Telegram to get a key and a number of free requests. Top up with crypto, or with TON or USDT on TON.
Every answer from a data endpoint carries X-Units-Charged, X-Balance-Remaining, X-Free-Units-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Remaining. Errors are {error, code} with a fixed list of codes, and a call that fails on our side is not charged.
Each endpoint has a docs page at /developers/docs, and /openapi.json describes all of them.

October 20, 2026

user/profile returns verified, bio and external_url.
The profile header on the site and in the mini app shows the blue badge, the bio with its line breaks and the link in bio.
The older /api/profile answer carries the same three values as isVerified, bio and externalUrl.

October 20, 2026

/api/stories, /api/profile, /api/highlights, /api/media, /api/download, /api/posts and /api/tiktok/analytics keep working for calls with an API key until December 31, 2026. After that date a call with a key is answered 410 with the code legacy_endpoint. The website does not use a key and is not affected.
New work should use /api/v1/. The page /developers/docs/legacy lists each older endpoint next to the v1 endpoint that replaces it.

October 20, 2026

The Content API plans (Starter, Growth and Scale) and the Tracker API plans (Starter, Growth and Scale) are no longer sold. A plan bought earlier keeps working until its term ends.
The Basic and Pro plans of the website still include the tracker routes.
A call with an API key to /api/stories, /api/profile, /api/highlights, /api/media, /api/download, /api/posts or /api/tiktok/analytics now carries the headers Deprecation, Sunset and Link. The Link points to /developers/docs/legacy.
After December 31, 2026 such a call is answered 410 with the code legacy_endpoint. A call without a key, such as one from the website, is not affected.