Insta story weblink apparently not working

[andrea83ny]

Hi,

I'm using the following code to post a photo as insta story with a swipe up link.

photo_url is the url of a photo in my PC

weblink = 'https://www.wsj.com/'

buildout = StoryBuilder(
Path(photo_url)
).photo() # or .video()

        logger.debug("buildout  ready. \n")
        logger.debug("The story will have a link! \n ")
        
        bot.video_upload_to_story(                
            buildout.path,
            caption='hello',
            links=[StoryLink(webUri=weblink)]
        )

The story is published, however it has no swipe up link.
Also, it has no caption.
Could you please check what's wrong?
Thanks!

[adw0rd]

@andrea83ny works fine https://www.instagram.com/stories/bestskatetrick/2623165683550157760/

Does the account you are posting to have 10,000 followers?

[andrea83ny]

yes, my page has more than 10k followers and it's a business account. is that an issue? thank you

[adw0rd]

then I don't know why you have a problem, as I wrote above - links work for my stories

[andrea83ny]

You're right! I was actually testing it on my smaller account.
Please, two last question. Could you show an example on how to customize the caption and the widget?
For example, can I customize the font, the color, and the position of the caption?
And how can I use the widget parameter?
Thank you!

[adw0rd]

StoryBuilder was created as an example, it is not part of the Instagram API wrapper.
It's a video editor, you can write whatever you want

[adw0rd]

However, it does support specifying font, size, and color now.
But if you need something special, then you can copy it yourself and add any functionality.

https://github.com/adw0rd/instagrapi/blob/master/instagrapi/story.py

[andrea83ny]

Thanks for the answer. I think perhaps my question was not clear, sorry.
I'm a amatorial python programmer and the code your wrote is so hard for me to understand.
My question however is the following.
I see the class StoryBuilder has as input parameter called "caption".
Is it supposed to add a text to the story? and if yes, could you please provide a simple example of how to use it?
That's all.

I tried the code I shared above, but I don't see the caption printed in the story, so perhaps I'm doing something wrong. Thanks

[adw0rd]

@andrea83ny caption will only be used if you do not specify mentions:

code from https://github.com/adw0rd/instagrapi/blob/master/instagrapi/story.py