Transcribe an Instagram reel to text
Turn a reel into readable text. Every word said out loud, plus anything written on screen that the audio never says.
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The Instagram Reel Transcript Scraper — Instagram Video Transcript Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like reel links and maximum reels to analyze, to match your specific use case.
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Put your reel links in place of the three demo links and run the task. Every word said out loud lands in the spoken transcript column, and any text written on screen lands in a separate on-screen text column.
No. The transcript and on-screen text stay in the original language, mixed languages included. The summary, topics and takeaways are written in the reel's language too, and a language column reports what was detected.
No. The transcript arrives as plain text without word-level timings. What is timed is the structure: each section of the reel carries the second it starts and ends, enough to jump to a part in an editor.
No. Backing music is not treated as speech, so a reel whose only audio is a song returns an empty spoken transcript. Any text written on screen is still read.
Yes. Paste as many links as you like and raise the reel limit, set to 3 in this demo. To transcribe a creator's reels without collecting links, put their handle into Creator handles instead.
Yes. Export the dataset from the run's Output tab as CSV, JSON or Excel, or fetch the rows with the Apify API. Each reel is one row, so a list of links comes back as one table of text.