Fall through to the post page when a reel embeds only its cover frame
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The captioned embed stopped shipping a reel's video_url and never draws a
logged-out <video>, so both the payload and the DOM hand back the cover
frame alone. Because that still counts as media, the post-page fallback
never fired and a reel resolved to a still image.

Trigger the fallback when the URL is a reel (or the payload declared a
video) but no video was found, so it reaches the post page, whose payload
still carries the progressive file in video_versions. The embed's
caption, handle and avatar are carried forward, since the post-page
payload does not include the owner.

Co-authored-by: anthropic/claude-opus-4-8
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2026-09-16 20:54:39 -03:00
co-authored by anthropic/claude-opus-4-8
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commit f968ac749c
3 changed files with 82 additions and 3 deletions
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{
"__typename": "XIGPolarisVideoMedia",
"pk": "3983940149641276516",
"code": "DdJzHVRyOxk",
"media_type": 2,
"product_type": "clips",
"caption": {
"text": "I just quit my job at the BPAF and things are not looking good you guys"
},
"accessibility_caption": "Video by Vinny Thomas on September 11, 2026.",
"original_height": 1280,
"original_width": 720,
"video_duration": 60.486,
"image_versions2": {
"candidates": [
{
"url": "https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/806299489_18624728518024548_8282126995775909321_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_cat=109&ig_cache_key=abc.3-ccb7-5&efg=cover_frame&width=720",
"height": 1280,
"width": 720
},
{
"url": "https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/806299489_18624728518024548_8282126995775909321_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=109&ig_cache_key=abc.3-ccb7-5&efg=cover_frame&width=640",
"height": 640,
"width": 640
},
{
"url": "https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/806299489_18624728518024548_8282126995775909321_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_s320x320_tt6&_nc_cat=109&ig_cache_key=abc.3-ccb7-5&efg=cover_frame&width=320",
"height": 320,
"width": 320
}
]
},
"has_audio": true,
"video_versions": [
{
"type": 101,
"url": "https://scontent-lga3-3.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t2/f2/m86/AQOsyEB80vwVJZ1X8Ang509fDOvIQYYT5Sw8ILSanSG2u_RQcsqL4IXxAs-sjup.mp4?_nc_cat=102&_nc_sid=5e9851&efg=xpv_progressive_720&width=720"
},
{
"type": 102,
"url": "https://scontent-lga3-3.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t2/f2/m86/AQOsyEB80vwVJZ1X8Ang509fDOvIQYYT5Sw8ILSanSG2u_RQcsqL4IXxAs-sjup.mp4?_nc_cat=102&_nc_sid=5e9851&efg=xpv_progressive_480&width=480"
}
]
}
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import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
import { test } from 'node:test';
import { fromGraph } from '../src/platforms/instagram.ts';
import { findMetaMedia, mediaFromMetaNode } from '../src/platforms/meta-media.ts';
import { fixture } from './helpers.ts';
test('a carousel becomes one media entry per child, in order', () => {
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assert.ok(item?.width && item.height, 'expected dimensions for the aspect ratio');
});
test('a reel whose embed only ships a cover frame still finds its video on the post page', () => {
// The captioned embed stopped shipping a reel's `video_url` and never draws
// a logged-out `<video>`, so both payload and DOM hand back the poster only.
// The post page still carries the progressive file in `video_versions`
// (the meta-media schema), which is where the adapter now falls through to.
const node = findMetaMedia(fixture('instagram/reel-video-versions.json'));
assert.ok(node, 'expected to find the media node in the post payload');
const media = mediaFromMetaNode(node!, 'https://www.instagram.com/');
assert.equal(media.length, 1);
const [item] = media;
assert.equal(item?.kind, 'video', 'a reel is a video, not its cover frame');
assert.match(item?.url ?? '', /^https:\/\/.*\.mp4/);
assert.ok(!item?.url.includes('.m3u8'), 'the native player needs a real file, not HLS');
// The cover frame becomes the poster, not the media itself.
assert.ok(item?.kind === 'video' && item.poster?.url.includes('t51.82787-15'), 'expected the cover frame as poster');
assert.ok(item?.width === 720 && item.height === 1280, 'expected dimensions for the aspect ratio');
});
test('captions keep their line breaks', () => {
const scraped = fromGraph(fixture('instagram/carousel.json'));
assert.ok(scraped.text?.includes('\n'), 'expected the caption to keep paragraph breaks');