Instagram story scraper didn't work with curl or file_get_contents method in php

I'm trying to fetch the story json data of instagram public account using curl or file_get_contents methods but unfortunately got no luck so far. As I figure, I cannot fetch the json data from the instagram url. Somehow instagram doesn't allow me to get the story data.

FOR TEST

User ID: 22009575863

We can access the test url directly: https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17873473675158481&variables=%7B%22precomposed_overlay%22%3Afalse%2C%22reel_ids%22%3A22009575863%7D

But cannot get the file contents(json) using curl method and this is my problem. Somehow getContents($url, $cookies = true) not return any story data but accessing the url directly return successful.

HTML

 <div class="form-group">
    <label><?php language('_PLACEHOLDER2'); ?></label>
    <input type="url" id="input" name="input" class="form-control" placeholder="<?php language('_PLACEHOLDER2'); ?>">
    <input type="hidden" name="action" id="action" value="story">
    <input type="hidden" name="json" id="json" value="">
    <input type="hidden" name="token" id="token" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['token']; ?>">
    <button id="btnDownloadStory" class="btn btn-default btn-block mt-3">
       <i class="fas fa-download"></i> <?php language('_DOWNLOAD'); ?>
     </button>
</div>

HTML OUTPUT:

POST

PHP USING SWITCH CASE

switch ($_POST['action']) {
        case 'story':
            if (isset($json['graphql']['user']['username']) != '') {
                $data['user'] = $instagram->getProfileFromData($json['graphql']['user']);
            } else {
                $data['user'] = $instagram->getProfile($username, true);
            }
            $data['medias'] = $instagram->getStories($data['user']['id']);
            break;
     
        default:
            returnError('Invalid action.');
            break;
    }


 /**
 * @param int $userId
 * @return array
 */
public function getStories($userId)
{
  
    $baseUrl = 'https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17873473675158481&variables=';

    $variables = '{"precomposed_overlay":false,"reel_ids":["' . $userId . '"]}';
    $stories = $this->getContents($baseUrl . urlencode($variables), true);
    $data = json_decode($stories, true);
    if (isset($data['data']['reels_media'][0]['items']) == '') {
        return array();
    }
    $stories = $data['data']['reels_media'][0]['items'];
    $medias = array();
    foreach ($stories as $story) {
        switch ($story['__typename']) {
            case 'GraphStoryImage':
                $i = count($story['display_resources']) - 1;
                array_push($medias, array(
                    'type' => 'image',
                    'fileType' => 'jpg',
                    'url' => $story['display_resources'][$i]['src'],
                    'downloadUrl' => $story['display_resources'][$i]['src'] . '&dl=1'
                ));
                break;
            case 'GraphStoryVideo':
                $i = count($story['video_resources']) - 1;
                array_push($medias, array(
                    'type' => 'video',
                    'fileType' => 'mp4',
                    'preview' => $story['display_url'],
                    'url' => $story['video_resources'][$i]['src'],
                    'downloadUrl' => $story['video_resources'][$i]['src'] . '&dl=1'
                ));
                break;
        }
    }
    return $medias;
}

Instragram.php

$cookieFile = __DIR__ . '/../storage/cookie.txt';

$userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36'; 

/**
 * @param string $url
 * @param bool $cookies
 * @return string
 */
public function getContents($url, $cookies = true)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $this->userAgent);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
        'Cookie ' . file_get_contents($this->cookieFile)
    ));
  
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $data; //return empty here
}

source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68145348/instagram-story-scraper-didnt-work-with-curl-or-file-get-contents-method-in-php