How to View Public Snapchat Stories Online

What counts as a public Snapchat Story?

A public Story is content a creator has made available to a public audience through a public profile or another public Snapchat surface. A public profile does not guarantee that every Story is public. Individual posts can expire, be deleted, or use a more limited audience.

The viewer does not unlock friends-only or private content. If Snapchat does not expose an item publicly at the time of the request, the service cannot return it.

How to view a public Story

Enter the account username, an @username, or a supported snapchat.com public profile URL. Check the spelling because a display name may differ from the account username.

Submit the search and wait for the public availability check. When a profile is found, review its public profile information and switch between Stories and Spotlight. Select a media card to open the viewer without leaving the page.

Use the previous and next controls to move through returned media. Engagement totals are shown only when Snapchat publishes real values for that item.

Why no Story may appear

A profile can exist without an active Story. The Story may also have expired, been deleted, changed audience, or become temporarily unavailable. Network failures, upstream rate limits, and public-page changes can also interrupt a lookup.

Try the exact username, open the troubleshooting guide, and retry after a temporary service message. Do not assume that a missing result means the account does not exist.

Privacy boundaries

No Snapchat login or password is required. The service cannot reveal private profiles, contacts, messages, deleted content, passwords, restricted relationships, or precise private location data.

Related questions

Check username, visibility, expiration, and temporary service errors.