Sharing to Instagram Stories

[schwa23]

Description

Instagram has a fairly simple sharing interface that uses a custom url scheme and a special pasteboard type. Sharing directly to instagram via shortcuts would entail placing content on the pasteboard as com.instagram.sharedSticker.backgroundImage and opening a URL instagram-stories://share?source_application=%@

Documentation is here

[sindresorhus]

From the linked page:

Beginning in January 2023, you must provide a Facebook AppID to share content to Instagram Stories. For more information, see Introducing an important update to Instagram Sharing to Stories. If you don't provide an AppID, your users see the error message "The app you shared from doesn't currently support sharing to Stories" when they attempt to share their content to Instagram.

[sindresorhus]

Not sure I will bother with applying for an AppID. However, what I could do is to make an action that allows setting custom pasteboard types.

[jdickens23]

Yeah that would work too! FWIW, I was able to put an arbitrary app id and it still worked so not sure how stringently they check that. But a generic 'advanced clipboard' action would be great :)