I was looking into downloading Instagram Stories for someone and found a website that did most of the work. I decided to make a shortcut with it, and it was relatively easy to do. It may serve as an example to learn Shortcuts, so I have added comments in the non-trivial steps.

The website stopped working in May 29th, so in version 1.2.0 I switched to instaview.me, a similar site.

You can easily check for updates with UpdateHub.

First published at https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/eekc6t/download_instagram_story/ (Dec'19).

A version in Spanish is also available: Descargar historias de Instagram