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Reply to Instagram story

Automatically reply to Instagram story on instagram.com. Send a text reply to a user's currently-active Instagram story, delivered as a DM. Takes the story owner's username (trimmed, lower-cased and de-@'d for you) and the reply text; returns the sent message's id. The three failure modes are reported distinctly rather than lumped together: no such account, the account has no active story, and the current slide doesn't accept replies (e.g. a shared reel or a link-sticker slide).

Input

text required

Reply text to send.

username required

Instagram username whose active story to reply to.

Output

text required
username required

The normalised username the reply was actually sent to (trimmed, lower-cased, no leading @).

message_id required

The sent DM message's id.

timestamp_ms required

Send timestamp in epoch milliseconds, as a string.

FAQ

Send a text reply to a user's currently-active Instagram story, delivered as a DM. Takes the story owner's username (trimmed, lower-cased and de-@'d for you) and the reply text; returns the sent message's id. The three failure modes are reported distinctly rather than lumped together: no such account, the account has no active story, and the current slide doesn't accept replies (e.g. a shared reel or a link-sticker slide).
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/instagram.com/reply_to_story, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/instagram.com/reply_to_story
You do not need one. "Reply to Instagram story" drives the real instagram.com pages in a browser, so it works whether or not instagram.com offers an API for this.
Required: username, text.
It returns text, username, message_id, timestamp_ms.
Yes. It acts as you on instagram.com: on your own Chrome it reuses your session, and on a Reduck-hosted browser it loads the instagram.com cookies saved by the Reduck extension.
It makes changes on instagram.com, like sending, posting, booking or buying something.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/instagram.com/reply_to_story, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/instagram.com/reply_to_story
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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