Instagram Reels Transcript Scraper: Reel to Text, Timestamps
Pricing
from $10.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Instagram reel and video transcripts, no login: reel links or creator handles in, the spoken words out (speech-to-text of the audio, not the caption) with the exact date, caption, duration, plays, likes, comments and owner. Optional timestamps, SRT/WebVTT subtitles, comments, the audio file.
Instagram reels, one per line, in any form: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DealHY4D2Yy/, a /p/ or /tv/ link, a link with the owner's handle in it, a bare shortcode (DealHY4D2Yy), a share link (instagram.com/share/…, followed to the reel it lands on), or an Instagram CDN media link (scontent-….cdninstagram.com/….mp4: the file is transcribed, no metadata). A creator's handle pasted here (nasa, @nasa) is read as a creator. The same reel given several ways is one row. A /p/ carousel is transcribed from its first video.
[]Instagram creators, one per line: nasa, @nasa or https://www.instagram.com/nasa/. The Actor lists each creator's newest reels by date (a reel pinned to the top of the grid stays in its real date position, flagged is_pinned) and transcribes up to maxReelsPerHandle of them. A private account, a missing handle or a creator with no reels is a free row.
[]The dataset id of another Instagram scraper's run (apify/instagram-scraper, instagram-reel-scraper, instagram-post-scraper and the like): every row is scanned for a reel link, a shortcode or a media link and transcribed. Empty = none.
How many of each creator's newest reels to transcribe, newest by date. A reel without speech counts (it is a free row); a reel outside the date window does not.
Creators only: reels posted on or after this date (2026-09-01), or a span back from today (30 days, 2 weeks, 6 months). The walk stops at the first reel older than this.
Creators only: reels posted on or before this date (same forms as dateFrom).
Creators only: leave out the reels pinned to the top of the grid. Off = a pinned reel is delivered in its real date position, flagged is_pinned.
Add the timed segments (segments: start, end, text), the timed words (words), srt and vtt, the speech seconds and the hook's start second, and the spoken language as named by the timing model (OpenAI whisper-1). Charged per started minute of audio on top of the transcript. Off = the words alone, with the language detected from the text.
Add the reel's first page of comments (up to 15: id, text, time, likes, username; a GIF reply with its GIF link) to each row. Free: they come with the reel's record.
Store the reel's audio stream or its video file in the run's key-value store, with a link that does not expire on the row (audio_file_url / video_file_url). Charged per file written. Instagram's own media links on the row expire within days (url_expires_at).
The most transcripts this run delivers (and charges). 0 = no limit. Free rows (no speech, not found, private) do not count.
Skip reels this task delivered in an earlier run: run a creator daily and get only the new reels. A reel without speech is remembered too (its verdict is final); a reel that could not be read is tried again next run. Turns the memory on.
Name of the memory between runs (onlyNew, is_new, first_seen_at). Empty = derived from your reels and creators, so the same task always meets its own memory.