Sinon Stories

Sinon Stories is a simple Instagram Stories downloader module.

This is linked to Sinon a video downloading & converting app.

To Install

npm i sinon-stories

To run

You will need to input your username, and password. There is a much greater chance of a successful login if you include a cookie file from Instagram while you are logged in. You can obtain this through a few browser extensions.

sinonStories({
  username: 'coolinfluencer420',
  password: '1234Password',
  targetAccount: 'jack.c.gracie',
  targetDir: './',
  cookieFile: './cookie.txt',
});

Additional options

• only_video: boolean // Will download only video
• only_photo: boolean // Will download only photos
• print: boolean // Will only print story URLs
• proxy: string // Use proxy
• language: string // Set language
• verbose: boolean // Print error in full

Examples

Sinon Stories is async. Below is an example usage.

const sinonStories = require('sinon-stories');

sinonStories({
  username: 'coolinfluencer420',
  password: '1234Password',
  targetAccount: 'jack.c.gracie',
  targetDir: './',
  cookieFile: './cookie.txt',
  print: true,
  only_video: true
}).then((storyURLS) => {
  console.log(storyURLS)
});

Future improvements

• Reducing dependencies
• Highlights download