Get stories and understand their logic

[biox86]

Hello, I started to make a few tests on the story endpoints and I was wondering if they are "complicated" as they seems to be, or if I'm just missing something.

I'm trying to get the stories of people I'm following as they appear in the Instagram app, so I'm calling Endpoint.recent.stories.
It returns a TrayItem.Collection that is ordered in the same exact way as the Instagram app ( so that's seems to be the right one ).

Every item can have its own items parameter ( basically an array of Media objects ) that seems to be just the unwatched stories.
On the other hand, every item also has a mediaIds parameter in its Wrapped object that seems to contain all the media ids of the available stories ( already watched or not ).

At the moment I'm interested in the second one because I'm trying to display all the available stories.

With those ids I can now call the Endpoint.media(#media_id) endpoint to get the real story medias.
This call returns a Media.Unit object.
This object has a media parameter, but it seems to always be nil.
This object also has an items parameter ( it seems an array of medias ) in its Wrapped object that seems to contain the media I'm searching for ( the video/image of the story itself ).

Now, do I really have to do this nested endpoint calls and work on the Wrappers to get all the available story medias or did I just missed some endpoint call or parameter?

I hope to have written in an understandable way, If I haven't been clear ( or grammatically correct ) enough, just let me know and I'll try my best to explain myself better.

...and thanks in advance for any clarification or confirmation of the process to get the stories!

[sbertix]

Hey @biox86,

yep, you're definitely overcomplicating things 😊
All you need to do is check for available stories with Endpoint.recent.stories and then load them with Endpoint.user(_:).stories one by one, as you actually want to load them, passing the TrayElement identifier as the Endpoint.user(_:).stories argument.

Do not rely on Endpoint.users(_:).stories with all identifiers at once as it only loads media for the first one (just like Endpoint.recent.stories). Again: Endpoint.user(_:).stories one at a time, not Endpoint.users(_:).stories.

[biox86]

It really felt too much complicated, glad I asked!

I just tried using the Endpoint.user(_:).stories passing the TrayElement identifier and It seems to work as expected.

It returns a TrayItem.Unit, from its item parameter I can get the TrayItem object and from its items parameter I can get the [Medias] array with all the available stories' medias.

Thanks a lot for your crazy fast help as usual!!

[olegjunios]

Hey!
I am trying to get stories using Swiftagram
but can't get ReceiveValue
could you help me please?

[olegjunios]

Hey!
I am trying to get stories using Swiftagram
but can't get ReceiveValue
could you help me please?