Save Instagram stories to a spreadsheet before they vanish
Instagram stories disappear after 24 hours. This checks the accounts you name a few times a day and copies each new story into a Google Sheet — the image, the link, when it went up — so you still have it next week.
Who it is for
Anyone tracking what competitors or clients post to stories, who keeps missing them.
How to run it
- 1Open it on n8n.io
Hit the button above, then Use workflow to copy it into your own n8n. Free, self-hosted or cloud.
- 2Read the yellow note
Every one of these carries a note on the canvas listing exactly what to fill in. Start there.
- 3Connect your accounts
An Apify token for the data-gathering, plus whichever app you want the results in — Sheets, Notion, Slack, email.
- 4Run it once by hand
Check the output looks right before you switch the schedule on. Nothing runs until you do.
The tool it uses
The data-gathering happens here. You can open it on its own and run it without any of the rest.
Instagram Stories Scraper
Scrape public Instagram stories: media URLs, type, timestamp, mentions, links and hashtags. Only live stories, gone after 24 hours. $2.50 per 1,000.
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