Instagram Reel On-Screen Text Extractor (OCR)
Pricing
from $1.00 / 1,000 reels
Extract text from Instagram Reels with AI OCR. Get every overlay, burned-in caption, sticker, hashtag and @mention shown on screen, with timestamps, screen position, language and confidence. Public Reels, no login. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it via API.
You can access the Instagram Reel On-Screen Text Extractor (OCR) programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "reelUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY8NM9WJfM8/"],10 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },11}12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("rainminer/instagram-reel-text-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Instagram Reel On-Screen Text Extractor (OCR) API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: