List an Instagram user's story highlights API

One call returns the story highlights tray of an Instagram account, looked up by numeric id_user. One item is one highlight reel (title, cover, media count). Our call returned 7 highlights (3 shown plus the '… 4 more' marker); the answer's cursor was null, so there was no next page.

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 tray`GET ig/highlights_tray`	$0.00099$0.99 / 1k calls	✓ 2026-10-06pricing ↗

What it returns

From a real call to the route: FlashAPI.

tray[].idHighlight id, e.g. 'highlight:1822...'tray[].titleHighlight titletray[].media_countNumber of stories in the highlighttray[].created_atUnix time the highlight was createdtray[].updated_timestampUnix time of last updatetray[].user.usernameOwner usernametray[].user.pkOwner numeric idtray[].cover_media.cropped_image_version.urlCover image URLcursorPagination cursor; null here

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_tray$0.00099 / call✓ working · tested 2026-10-061.12 s latency

Parameters

Parameter	Type		Notes
nocors	string · query	optional	default false
id_user	number · query	required	e.g. `25025320`

HTTP

curl "https://fetchapi.co/api/gw/flashapi/ig/highlights_tray?nocors=false&id_user=25025320" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

MCP

call_endpoint("flashapi.user_highlights_tray", {"nocors": "false", "id_user": "25025320"})

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

{
  "tray": [
    {
      "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.fkiv8-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-19/550891366_18667771684001321_1383210656577177067_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e0_s150x150_tt6&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI…",
        "fifa_country_code": "CA",
        "is_creator_agent_enabled": false,
        "interop_messaging_user_fbid": 117943452927407
      },
      "title": "close friends",
      "is_nux": false,
      "can_reply": false,
      "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.fkiv8-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.71878-15/756700225_1653985762331725_8429300849500507026_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s150x150_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=a…",
          "width": 150,
          "height": 150,
          "scans_profile": ""
        }
      },
      "is_archived": false,
      "media_count": 52,
      "strong_id__": "highlight:18223279177302854",
      "prefetch_count": 0,
      "…": "11 more fields"
    },
    {
      "id": "highlight:18612622252018257",
      "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.fkiv8-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.82787-19/550891366_18667771684001321_1383210656577177067_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e0_s150x150_tt6&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI…",
        "fifa_country_code": "CA",
        "is_creator_agent_enabled": false,
        "interop_messaging_user_fbid": 117943452927407
      },
      "title": "🎤🎶🎸",
      "is_nux": false,
      "can_reply": false,
      "reel_type": "highlight_reel",
      "created_at": 1784674239,
      "can_reshare": true,
      "cover_media": {
        "media_id": null,
        "crop_rect": null,
        "upload_id": null,
        "full_image_version": null,
        "cropped_image_version": {
          "url": "https://instagram.fkiv8-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.71878-15/755867844_1751720619182762_5430881549273743299_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s150x150_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=a…",
          "width": 150,
          "height": 150,
          "scans_profile": ""
        }
      },
      "is_archived": false,
      "media_count": 46,
      "strong_id__": "highlight:18612622252018257",
      "prefetch_count": 0,
      "…": "11 more fields"
    },
    "… 2 more"
  ],
  "cursor": null,
  "status": "ok",
  "highlights_tray_type": "DEFAULT",
  "suggested_highlights": [],
  "has_fetched_all_remaining_highlights": null,
  "last_paginated_highlights_node_edited_at_ts": null
}

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