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.
status
Optional
ok = the row carries a transcript (charged). Otherwise free, with reason saying why: no_speech, not_found, private, no_reels, no_video, unavailable, invalid, audio_too_large, audio_failed, transcription_failed, refused, skipped, failed.
reason
Optional
Why the row has no transcript, in words (null on ok rows).
input
Optional
The value you gave that brought the reel into the run (a reel link, a shortcode, a media link, a creator's handle).
input_kind
Optional
What the input was read as: reel, media_url, share, handle, invalid. A creator's listed reels carry reel with the handle in input.
input_index
Optional
The input's position in your list (1 = first); null for a reel that came from a dataset.
shortcode
Optional
The reel's shortcode (the code in its link). Deduplicate on this, or on media_id.
media_id
Optional
Instagram's media id of the reel (the shortcode decoded; stable for the reel's life).
reel_url
Optional
The reel's link.
owner_username
Optional
The creator's username.
owner_id
Optional
The creator's user id.
owner_full_name
Optional
The creator's display name.
owner_is_verified
Optional
True when the creator's account is verified.
taken_at
Optional
When the reel was posted, to the second (ISO 8601, UTC).
taken_at_timestamp
Optional
The posting time as a Unix timestamp.
caption
Optional
The reel's caption, as written (not the transcript).
duration_s
Optional
The reel's length in seconds (from Instagram's record; from the audio file or the timing model where the record has none).
play_count
Optional
Instagram's app play counter, on a creator run (read from the creator's reels list). Null on a pasted reel link: Instagram's reel record carries no counter for a visitor.
play_count_source
Optional
Which counter play_count is: app (Instagram's app play counter). Null where no counter was served.
like_count
Optional
Likes, exact, at the time of the run.
comment_count
Optional
Comments, exact, at the time of the run.
is_pinned
Optional
On a creator run: true when the reel is pinned to the top of the creator's grid (it is still delivered in its real date position). Null on a pasted link.
has_audio
Optional
Instagram's own flag on the reel's record. Not a speech test: the model decides (status no_speech).
audio_source
Optional
Which file carried the audio: dash_heaac (the reel's audio-only stream), progressive_mp4 (the video file, for a licensed-music reel muted on the web), media_url (a CDN link you gave).
audio_title
Optional
The sound's title: the licensed track's, or "Original audio".
audio_artist
Optional
The sound's artist: the track's display artist, or the creator of the original audio.
is_original_audio
Optional
True for an original sound, false for a licensed track.
is_muted_on_web
Optional
True when Instagram mutes the reel's licensed music on the web (the audio is read from the video file then).
carousel_index
Optional
For a /p/ carousel: which item (1-based) is the video that was transcribed.
carousel_count
Optional
For a carousel: how many items it has.
thumbnail_url
Optional
The reel's cover image (Instagram's CDN; expires).
video_url
Optional
The reel's video file on Instagram's CDN (signed; expires at url_expires_at).
audio_url
Optional
The audio file that was transcribed, on Instagram's CDN (signed; expires at url_expires_at).
url_expires_at
Optional
When the first of the signed CDN links on the row (video_url, audio_url) expires, decoded from the links themselves.
transcript
Optional
The spoken words of the whole reel, as one text.
word_count
Optional
Words in transcript.
language
Optional
The spoken language's code (ISO 639-1): by the timing model with timestamps, else detected from the text (see language_source). Null when there is too little text to judge.
language_name
Optional
The spoken language in words ("English").
language_source
Optional
Where language came from: whisper-1 (the timing model, with timestamps) or text-detection (a detector over the transcript's text).
hook_3s
Optional
The opening hook: the words spoken in the first 3 seconds of speech (with timestamps), else the transcript's first 8 words.
hook_start_s
Optional
With timestamps: the second the first word is spoken at.
hook_source
Optional
How the hook was cut: timed_words (the first 3 s of speech) or first_words (the first 8 words).
segments
Optional
With timestamps: the timed segments, start and end in seconds and text, to the end of the reel (OpenAI whisper-1).
segment_count
Optional
With timestamps: how many timed segments the transcript has.
words
Optional
With timestamps: every word with its start and end in seconds.
srt
Optional
With timestamps: the transcript as SRT subtitles.
vtt
Optional
With timestamps: the transcript as WebVTT subtitles.
speech_seconds
Optional
With timestamps: seconds of the reel that carry speech (the segments' lengths summed).
transcript_model
Optional
The speech model that wrote the words (gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15).
timing_model
Optional
With timestamps: the model that timed the segments and words (whisper-1).
transcript_from
Optional
live = transcribed in this run; cache = served from the shared transcript cache by the reel's media id (the metadata on the row is still this run's).
transcribed_at
Optional
When the words were transcribed (UTC): this run's time, or the cached answer's.
long_video_minutes
Optional
Started minutes of audio past the third on this row (the long_video_minute events charged); null when none.
timestamp_minutes
Optional
With timestamps: started minutes of audio on this row (the timestamps events charged); null when none.
media_files
Optional
With downloadMedia: the files written to the run's key-value store, each with kind, key, url, bytes, content_type, source_url, reused.
audio_file_url
Optional
With downloadMedia: audio: a link to the stored audio file that does not expire.
video_file_url
Optional
With downloadMedia: video: a link to the stored video file that does not expire.
is_new
Optional
On a memory run (onlyNew or stateStoreName): true when no earlier run of this memory delivered the reel.
first_seen_at
Optional
On a memory run: the day this memory first saw the reel.
notes
Optional
Anything the row could not carry in full, in words (which egress read the audio, a timing model that did not answer, a field exception beside the record).
scraped_at
Optional
When the row was read (UTC).
error
Optional
true on the one row a rejected input writes; absent on a result row
code
Optional
why the input was rejected, as a code (INPUT REJECTED runs only)
message
Optional
what to change, in words (INPUT REJECTED runs only)
comments
Optional
With
includeComments: the reel's first page of comments (up to 15):id,text,created_at,like_count,username, andgif_urlfor a GIF reply (itstextis empty).