Facebook Video Transcript Scraper · videos, Reels, Watch

Paste public Facebook video, Reel or Watch links — get the full spoken text. No API key, no login.

Facebook videos sometimes carry captions; most Reels don't. This Actor uses Facebook's captions when they exist (fast, cheap) and transcribes the audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo when they don't — so you get text for every spoken-word video, not just the captioned ones. Every result passes a quality gate: empty, truncated or garbage transcripts are reported as failures and never charged.

Supported links

Link type	Example
Watch	https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10153231379946729
Page video	https://www.facebook.com/<page>/videos/<id>/
Reel	https://www.facebook.com/reel/<id>
Short link	https://fb.watch/<code>/

Only publicly viewable videos work (private groups / login-only content are skipped and not charged).

Output

{
  "platform": "facebook",
  "id": "10153231379946729",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10153231379946729",
  "title": "How to Share With Just Friends",
  "author": "Facebook",
  "duration": 91,
  "language": "auto",
  "source": "ai:groq-whisper-turbo",
  "charCount": 667,
  "aiMinutes": 2,
  "transcript": "..."
}

source tells you where the text came from: caption:manual, caption:auto or ai:groq-whisper-turbo.

Pricing (pay per event)

• Caption transcript — charged when Facebook already has captions.
• AI transcript + AI minute — charged only when AI transcription succeeds; minutes are counted per started minute of audio.
• Bring your own Groq key (optional) — pay only the small per-result fee, no per-minute charge. Free keys at console.groq.com.

Set Max minutes per video to cap cost on long videos (default 60).

Input

Field	Description
videoUrls	Facebook video / Reel / Watch links (other platforms also accepted)
aiTranscription	Use AI when no captions (default on)
languageHint	Spoken language code (e.g. en, zh, ja) — improves accuracy on short clips
maxMinutes	Skip AI for videos longer than this
groqApiKey	Optional: your own key (cheaper)
preferredLanguages	Caption track priority

Who uses this

• Page & competitor content research: turn videos and Reels into searchable text
• Feeding RAG, summarization and LLM pipelines with clean transcripts
• Subtitling, translation, accessibility
• Social listening and ad-creative analysis

Notes

Facebook sometimes blocks datacenter IPs — keep Apify Proxy enabled (default). Failures are classified (proxy / rate-limit / blocked / network / other) in the run report so you can see why something failed, not just that it did.