Instagram Reel Transcript Scraper

Turn public Instagram Reels and video posts into accurate, structured transcripts with timestamps, subtitles, word-level timing, confidence scores, and post metadata.

What you get

• Clean transcript text with sentence-like timestamped segments
• Word-level start/end times, confidence, and optional speaker labels
• WebVTT and SRT subtitle files
• Transcript quality scoring with low-confidence word spans
• Optional paragraphs, entities, topics, sentiment, summaries, and intents
• Instagram caption, author, publication date, engagement metrics, and media dimensions
• One result record for every submitted URL, including structured error details when processing fails

How to use

Individual Reels

Add one or more public Reel URLs to reelUrls. Public /reel/, /reels/, /p/, and /tv/ links are supported, as well as bare Instagram shortcodes.

Creator batches

Add public usernames to usernames to discover and transcribe recent video posts. Use resultsLimitPerProfile, onlyPostsNewerThan, and skipPinnedPosts to control discovery.

Advanced transcription

The default settings are ready for most videos. Optional controls let you:

• Include or omit word-level data and quality scoring
• Detect and label multiple speakers
• Boost recognition of brand, product, or domain-specific terms with keyterms
• Request content analysis with topics, sentiment, summaries, intents, and custom categories
• Enable filler-word handling, numerals, measurements, profanity filtering, or redaction
• Choose a language or use automatic language detection
• Save the downloaded video to the run's key-value store when a reusable copy is needed

Output

Each dataset item contains the original input, canonical post URL, transcript, segments, subtitles, word count, detected language, duration, quality information, and available Instagram metadata.

When enabled, words contains precise word timings and confidence values. Speaker numbers are included for diarized transcripts. Optional analysis is returned under analysis.

Pricing

• $0.0025 per successfully completed transcript
• $0.008 per started audio minute
• Additional $0.003 per started minute when keyterm boosting, entity detection, or redaction is requested
• Actor start: $0.00005 per run

The Actor charges only for successfully completed transcript work. The final amount is shown in the run output under billing.

Example tasks

• Transcribe one Instagram Reel
• Analyze Instagram Reel content
• Transcribe recent creator Reels
• Create a speaker-labeled transcript

Input example

{
  "reelUrls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcbru9ZIF-B/"
  ],
  "includeWords": true,
  "includeQuality": true,
  "includeSrt": true
}

Only publicly accessible Instagram posts can be processed.