Instagram stories

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site
• I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2021.12.27. (update instructions)
• I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
• I’ve read the guidelines for opening an issue
• I’ve read about sharing account credentials and I’m willing to share it if required

Region

UK

Description

ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.instagram.com/stories/[xxx]

Works fine for Instagram feed posts, just not stories. Cookies does not help.

Verbose log

yt-dlp https://www.instagram.com/stories/[xxx] --cookies instacookie.txt -Uv
[debug] Command-line config: ['-i', '--format', '((571/272/402/337/315/313/401/336/308/400/271/335/303/299/399/137/248/334/302/298/398/247/136/333/244/135/397/332/243/134/396/331/242/133/395/330/160/394/278)[protocol!=http_dash_segments])+(bestaudio[acodec=opus]/bestaudio[protocol!=http_dash_segments])/best', 'https://www.instagram.com/stories/[xxx]', '--cookies', 'instacookie.txt', '-Uv']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.12.27 [6223f67a8] (zip)
[debug] Python version 3.9.0 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-4.19.107-Unraid-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5-2650_v2_@_2.60GHz-with-glibc2.30
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-54690-g682990a849-static
[debug] Optional libraries: sqlite
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Latest version: 2021.12.27, Current version: 2021.12.27
yt-dlp is up to date (2021.12.27)
[debug] [generic] Extracting URL: https://www.instagram.com/stories/[xxx]
[generic] [xxx]: Requesting header
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] [xxx]: Downloading webpage
[generic] [xxx]: Extracting information
[debug] Looking for video embeds
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.instagram.com/stories/[xxx]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1353, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1423, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 599, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py", line 3829, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
yt_dlp.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.instagram.com/stories/[xxx]

[MinePlayersPE]

Already fixed on master https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/dd5e60b15dd720727a0242eec2bd6698cb03b8f2

>yt-dlp -F "https://www.instagram.com/stories/XXX/XXX/" --cookies-from-browser edge
[Cookies] Extracting cookies from edge
[Cookies] Extracted 2777 cookies from edge
[instagram:story] XXX: Downloading JSON metadata
[instagram:story] XXX: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: XXX
[instagram:story] playlist XXX: Collected 2 videos; downloading 2 of them
[download] Downloading video 1 of 2
[info] Available formats for XXX:
...

[nyuszika7h]

Yeah, just checked, it works fine for me too on master.