Instagram Reel Script Extractor & API: Reels to Text
Pricing
from $3.00 / 1,000 transcripts
Get the Instagram reel script from the link of a reel, without login: full text, timestamped segments, SRT and VTT, language, likes, caption, sound. Music-only reels are not charged. From $0.0175 for a 40-second reel, start fee included.
status
Required
ok: transcript delivered (charged). missing: the video exists but has nothing to transcribe (no speech, no sound, photo post, longer than your limit), free. error: the link could not be read (deleted, private, age-restricted, blocked, capacity), free.
platform
Optional
Always instagram.
videoId
Optional
The post's shortcode.
url
Optional
Canonical URL of the video.
carouselIndex
Optional
For a carousel post: position of this video in the carousel (1 = first). Null for a reel or a single video.
caption
Optional
The post's own text (description), as written by its author.
publishedAt
Optional
Publication date and time, ISO 8601 UTC.
isReel
Optional
True for a reel, false for a video in a feed post or carousel.
durationSeconds
Optional
Length of the video in seconds.
viewCount
Optional
Plays when scraped. Instagram hides it from visitors without an account: usually null on Instagram.
likeCount
Optional
Likes when scraped (null when the author hides them).
commentCount
Optional
Comments when scraped.
sound
Optional
The sound of the video: title, author, and isOriginal (recorded by the creator, not a track).
language
Optional
ISO 639-1 code of the language spoken and transcribed (never a translation).
requestedLanguageFound
Optional
With Spoken language set: true if the video is in that language, false if another language was spoken (you get that one). Null when you set none.
transcriptSource
Optional
speech_to_text: transcribed from the audio by AI (Whisper or ElevenLabs Scribe).
isAutoGenerated
Optional
False only for captions written by the creator; true for automatic captions and speech-to-text.
hasSpeech
Optional
True on every transcript: videos without speech are free missing records (no_speech).
transcript
Optional
The whole transcript as one string.
segments
Optional
Timestamped lines: start, end and duration in seconds, text. Long Chinese or Japanese lines from speech-to-text are split at the end of sentences (40 characters at most), their time shared out by characters.
segmentCount
Optional
Number of segments.
wordCount
Optional
Words in the transcript; each Chinese or Japanese character counts as one word, punctuation does not count (Thai: use characterCount).
characterCount
Optional
Characters in the transcript.
srt
Optional
With Add SRT subtitles: the transcript as an .srt file.
vtt
Optional
With Add WebVTT subtitles: the transcript as a .vtt file.
filteredSegments
Optional
Segments of the raw speech-to-text output left out as non-speech (a "Thank you." over silence, a [Music] tag, a model loop). 0 for the site's own captions.
billedMinutes
Optional
Started minutes of video billed as speech-to-text minutes for this transcript (0 for TikTok's own captions).
missingReason
Optional
For status missing: no_speech (no clear speech: music, sounds, or words the model is unsure of), incomplete_transcript (speech, but more than 20% of it could not be transcribed reliably, or the model cut part of it: no partial transcript is sold), uncertain_language, no_audio, photo_post, too_long.
message
Optional
For status missing: the reason in plain English.
errorCode
Optional
For status error: not_found, private, age_restricted, region_blocked, unavailable, not_a_video, account_not_found, account_private, account_empty, invalid_url, bad_input, over_budget, connection_failed (your own connection settings could not be used), blocked, network, transcription_capacity (our speech-to-text capacity is temporarily used up: not charged, retry later), transcription_failed, site_changed, unexpected.
error
Optional
For status error: the reason in plain English.
retryable
Optional
For status error: true if retrying later may work (blocked, network, capacity), false if not (deleted, private).
input
Optional
The input line that produced this record.
inputType
Optional
video, account, input or unknown.
position
Optional
For accounts: rank of the video in the account's list (1 = first shown, pinned posts first). Records are written as soon as each video is done: sort by input and position.
scrapedAt
Optional
When the record was produced, ISO 8601 UTC.
truncatedFields
Optional
Rare: fields emptied because the record exceeded the dataset's 9 MB limit.
