Facebook Video & Reel Transcript Scraper

Get the words spoken in Facebook videos and Reels as text. Paste video links (or a page name) and get a timestamped transcript for each video, plus views, reactions, comments, page name and post text. The actor uses Facebook's own caption track when a video has one, and transcribes the audio with Whisper AI when it doesn't, so videos without captions still get a transcript. No login, no cookies, no API keys.

Who it is for

• Marketers and agencies: study what top pages actually say in their Reels, and the hooks that open their best videos.
• Brand and social-listening teams: find product and brand mentions in spoken content, not only in post text.
• AI and RAG pipelines: feed Facebook video speech into LLMs, summarizers and search indexes as clean text.
• Newsrooms and researchers: archive and search what publishers and public figures say in their videos.
• Creators and video editors: get ready-made SRT/VTT subtitles for your own videos.

What you get

Field	Example	Notes
url, videoId, isReel	https://www.facebook.com/reel/1624229872678769/
ownerName, ownerId, ownerUrl	Gordon Ramsay	the page or profile that posted the video
title, description		the video title (when set) and the post text
createdAt	2026-10-26T17:00:43Z	UTC
viewCount, reactionCount, commentCount	54203, 2838, 142	when Facebook shows them logged out (views are often missing on /reel/ links, present on watch and page-video links)
durationSeconds	210.9
transcript	[{"start": 1.56, "end": 6.22, "text": "Some of the best food I had in India was street food and every"}, …]	timed segments, or one string (see Transcript format)
transcriptSource	facebook_captions or ai_whisper	where the text came from
hook	Some of the best food I had in India was street food and every	the opening line (segments starting in the first 3 seconds)
language, isAutoGenerated, isTranslated	en, true, false	isTranslated is true when the caption track is Facebook's automatic translation
availableCaptionLanguages	["en_US", "es_LA", "pt_PT"]	Facebook caption tracks on the video
srt, vtt		subtitle files as text, with Add SRT and VTT subtitles
wordCount, hasSpeech, audioSeconds
thumbnailUrl, videoUrl		thumbnail and a direct MP4 link (expires after a few hours)
sourcePage	cnn	the page input a video came from (page mode)
error, errorReason	no_speech	set when a video could not be transcribed

Videos without speech (music-only clips, silent videos), removed or private videos and other failures are listed with an error code so you can see what happened to every input, and you are not charged for them.

How to use it

1. Add Facebook videos and Reels: Reel links (facebook.com/reel/…), watch links (facebook.com/watch/?v=…), page video links (facebook.com/<page>/videos/…), share links (fb.watch/…, facebook.com/share/v/…) or bare video IDs.
2. Or add Pages: a page URL or vanity name such as nasa or gordonramsay. The actor transcribes the videos shown on the page's Videos tab without login (usually the latest 9-40 videos), up to Max videos per page.
3. Pick the Transcript source:
   • auto (default): Facebook's caption track when there is one, Whisper AI otherwise.
   • captions: Facebook's captions only, never AI. Videos without captions come back as no_captions rows.
   • ai: always transcribe the audio with Whisper, for example to translate everything to English.
4. Run, then export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or use the API.

Input options

Option	Default	What it does
videoUrls	–	Facebook video/Reel links or IDs
pageUrls	–	pages or profiles whose Videos-tab videos to transcribe
maxVideosPerPage	10	videos per page
transcriptSource	auto	auto, captions or ai
languages	["en"]	preferred caption languages, in order (Facebook often offers automatic translations)
fallbackToAnyLanguage	true	use the video's original caption track when none match
translateToEnglish	false	English output for non-English speech in AI transcripts
outputFormat	segments	segments, text or both
includeSubtitleFiles	false	add srt and vtt subtitle text to each row
maxVideos	100	cap for the run
maxAudioMinutes	30	longer videos without captions (e.g. live-stream replays) are skipped (error: too_long) instead of AI-transcribed
proxyConfiguration	none	not needed; the actor switches to Apify proxies on its own when Facebook refuses an IP

Example input

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1624229872678769",
    "https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1863947697952668"
  ],
  "pageUrls": ["cnn"],
  "maxVideosPerPage": 5,
  "transcriptSource": "auto",
  "outputFormat": "both",
  "includeSubtitleFiles": true
}

Example output

{
  "videoId": "1624229872678769",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1624229872678769/",
  "isReel": true,
  "ownerName": "Gordon Ramsay",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-26T17:00:43Z",
  "durationSeconds": 210.9,
  "viewCount": null,
  "reactionCount": 372,
  "commentCount": 14,
  "availableCaptionLanguages": ["en_US", "es_LA", "hi_IN", "id_ID", "pt_PT", "ta_IN", "te_IN", "th_TH", "ur_PK", "vi_VN"],
  "transcriptSource": "facebook_captions",
  "language": "en",
  "isAutoGenerated": true,
  "isTranslated": false,
  "hook": "Some of the best food I had in India was street food and every",
  "transcript": [
    {"start": 1.563, "end": 6.223, "text": "Some of the best food I had in India was street food and every"},
    {"start": 6.223, "end": 10.303, "text": "little food stall was cooking up something spicy, something"}
  ],
  "error": null
}

Scheduling and integrations

Schedule a run on your competitors' pages every day to transcribe their newest videos, or call it from Make, Zapier or the API whenever you collect new links, and send the dataset to Google Sheets, Slack or a webhook. A run interrupted mid-way resumes where it stopped when started again with the same input, without duplicate rows.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Apify's MCP server exposes this actor as a tool, so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients can call it directly: "Transcribe the latest 10 videos on the BBC News Facebook page and summarize each one". Use outputFormat: "text" for compact input.

FAQ

Do I need a Facebook account or cookies? No. Only public videos are read, logged out.

Where do the transcripts come from? Many Facebook videos carry a caption track (auto-generated by Facebook or uploaded by the page); the actor returns it as is (transcriptSource: facebook_captions). For videos without one, the actor runs OpenAI's Whisper (base model) on the audio (ai_whisper). Clear speech transcribes well; music, slang or crosstalk lower accuracy, and sung lyrics are transcribed like speech.

Which languages? Facebook often adds automatic translations of a video's captions, and you choose the preferred order. Whisper detects ~100 spoken languages and can translate them to English.

Why does a video say no_speech? Videos with only music, silent clips and ASMR without talking have nothing to transcribe. These rows are free.

How many videos does page mode find? Facebook shows logged-out visitors only the videos on the first screen of a page's Videos tab, usually 9-40. For a page's full history, paste the video links instead.

Group videos, private videos, Stories? Not supported: only public videos that open without login.

Is this legal? The actor reads publicly available videos without logging in. You are responsible for how you use the data, in particular personal data under GDPR/CCPA and Meta's terms.

Something failed? Rows carry an error code and reason. If you see many blocked rows, re-run later or set a residential proxyConfiguration, and open an issue on the actor page.