A Story is rarely a single item. A profile often posts three to ten items across a day, each with its own address behind the same link.
Our tool reads the whole Story from the pasted address and lists every item separately, with a thumbnail, its type (photo or video) and the file size. You choose what to save and can grab everything in one go.
One limit is not ours: Instagram deletes Stories 24 hours after they are posted. While a Story is live it can be downloaded; after that the link ceases to exist and no tool can recover the file.
If what you want is a video from a profile's permanent feed, head to
Instagram video downloader; for short vertical clips in
the Reels tab, see the Reels downloader.