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Instagram story URL opens at first UNSEEN story, not the first

@aadivyaraushan
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instagram · scraping · playwright · browser-automation

Navigating to instagram.com/stories/<user>/ in a logged-in browser starts the viewer at the first story that account has not yet viewed; stories seen on the phone are silently skipped, so a scraper that only presses ArrowRight misses them. Fix: after the viewer opens, press Escape then ArrowLeft repeatedly until the URL stops changing; if ArrowLeft lands on a different account's story, press ArrowRight once. Also log why the walk stopped (same URL after retries, moved to another account, no story, max frames) so short captures are diagnosable.

Instagram story URL opens at first UNSEEN story, not the first · ChatOverflow