Instagram Audio Scraper — Reels Using a Sound, with Transcripts

Instagram audio scraper: paste a sound's page link and get the sound itself (title, artist or owner, song or original audio, how many reels Instagram counts on it) plus the reels that use it, with caption, author, posted time, plays, likes and comments. Switch on transcripts and each reel also comes back with what the creator says over the sound. Reels from $0.60 per 1,000.

Paste one or more Instagram sound links (tap the sound name at the bottom of any reel and copy the page link, it contains /reels/audio/), or just the number at the end of the link. Songs from Instagram's music library and "Original audio" both work. No login, no cookies, no proxy to set up. A sound that could not be read, a reel that could not be delivered and a transcript that was not produced are never charged, and nothing is charged for starting a run.

Coming back for fresh reels? Save the same input as a task and run it on Apify's Schedules, for example { "audioUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/reels/audio/1467739367151376/"] }. With "New reels only" on (the default), reels already delivered to your account are skipped and not charged, so each run brings back the sound's new reels and its current reel count. Weekly suits a song's long tail; daily suits a sound that is trending now.

Using an AI agent? Pin this actor in Apify's MCP server with one link: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=steadyfetch/instagram-audio-reels-scraper

• Actor id: steadyfetch/instagram-audio-reels-scraper
• Input: { "audioUrls": ["https://www.instagram.com/reels/audio/1467739367151376/"], "maxReelsPerAudio": 50, "includeTranscripts": true } — audioUrls is the one field you have to set.
• Cap the bill: set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run (a run option, not Actor input), e.g. 0.50 — the run stops when it reaches it.
• Price: $0.004 per sound read, $0.0015 per reel on the Apify free plan and from $0.0006 on paid plans, $0.006 per transcript produced. Full table below.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc.

What you get

First one sound row for each sound (rowType: "sound"):

Column	What it holds
soundTitle · soundArtist · soundOwnerUsername	the sound's name, and its artist (a song) or the account that posted it (an original audio)
soundType	music (a song from Instagram's music library) or original (an "Original audio")
reelCount · reelCountText	how many reels Instagram counts on the sound, exact and as Instagram shows it ("2.5M reels")
soundDurationSeconds · isExplicit · isTrending	length, the explicit flag, and whether Instagram marks it trending
soundUrl · audioId · spotifyUrl	the sound's page, its id, and for a song the Spotify track

Then one reel row per reel using the sound (rowType: "reel"):

Column	What it holds
shortCode · url · takenAt	the reel and when it was posted
caption · hashtags · mentions	what the creator wrote
ownerUsername · ownerFullName · ownerIsVerified	who posted it
playCount · likeCount · commentCount · videoDuration	how it is doing, and how long it is
transcript · transcriptLanguage · transcriptSegments	what the creator says, timestamped (transcripts on)
charged · chargedEvents · status · statusReason	what the row was charged, and why it says what it says

Every column is always present; a value Instagram does not show is null, never missing. The sound file itself is never part of a row.

What a row looks like

{
  "rowType": "reel",
  "audioId": "1467739367151376",
  "soundUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/reels/audio/1467739367151376/",
  "shortCode": "DSAMPLE0001",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DSAMPLE0001/",
  "caption": "Morning routine, this song on repeat",
  "takenAt": "2026-10-16T14:52:47.000Z",
  "playCount": 58720,
  "likeCount": 1201,
  "commentCount": 6,
  "videoDuration": 12.003,
  "ownerUsername": "sample_account",
  "transcript": "Three things I do before eight every morning…",
  "transcriptLanguage": "English",
  "charged": true,
  "chargedEvents": { "reel": 1, "reel-transcript": 1, "sound": 0 },
  "status": "delivered"
}

Price

You pay per event, and only for what was delivered:

Event	When it is charged	Apify free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold and up
sound	once per sound read in a run — its own row	$0.004	$0.004	$0.004	$0.004
reel	each new reel using the sound, delivered	$0.0015	$0.0012	$0.0009	$0.0006
reel-transcript	each transcript actually produced (opt-in)	$0.006	$0.006	$0.006	$0.006

Examples: one sound with 50 reels is $0.079 on the Apify free plan and $0.034 from Gold. The same with transcripts is $0.379 / $0.334. No start fee, ever. Reels up to 180 seconds are transcribed; a longer one, or one whose video is too large to fetch at its length, is delivered without a transcript and says so.

For a faster run, raise the memory. A run starts at 512 MB by default. With transcripts on, more memory lets each reel's audio be read faster; the price per reel is the same at any memory.

What a second run costs

Only reels new to your account are charged. Every run remembers, in a key-value store in your own Apify account (ig-audio-reels-account), which reels it delivered. With "New reels only" on (the default), a later run of the same sound skips them: no row and no charge, and the next new reel takes the slot. After two pages in a row that hold only reels you already have, the sound is closed on a bounded number of pages and its row says so. Turn the switch off and the reels you already have come back, marked repeat: true, with no result fee and no second transcript.

The sound's own row is delivered and charged on every run, a repeat run included: its reel count and trending flag are what moves between runs, and its fee is what reading the sound costs. A transcript is charged only when one was actually produced.

Honest rows: what "not charged" actually means

Every sound that returns fewer reels than you asked for gets one row saying which of these happened:

• no_reels — the sound's list ended, Instagram counts no reels on it, or this actor's own read depth or repeat backstop closed it; the row says which.
• stopped_at_limit — your own limit (reels per sound, maximum cost, run seconds) stopped it.
• source_unavailable — the read did not go through; a re-run is the fix.
• source_refused — Instagram shows no page for that sound (a mistyped or removed sound); the same answer every time.
• unsupported_shape — Instagram answered in a shape this actor does not read yet; on us, and also the same every time.
• limit_reached — this run reached its limit; the row says whether a new run continues now.
• user_input — a value that is not a sound (a reel link, a profile link, a song name); the row says how to find the sound's link.

None of these is charged, and the run still finishes successfully. A time limit ends the collecting, never the delivering: rows already in hand are always written out. The last row is the run's own summary: sound rows and reels delivered, what was asked for, and what stopped it. Results may fail when Instagram changes; failed items are never charged.

How often this data changes

A trending sound gains reels every hour and its reel count moves daily; a song's long tail moves weekly. Instagram lists a sound's reels in its own order, so a later run finds the reels posted since as well as ones the earlier pages did not reach. Play, like and comment counts on a reel move most in its first days. For tracking a sound, a daily or weekly run of the same input with "New reels only" on is what most buyers need: it delivers the new reels and the current reel count, and your memory of what you already have lives in ig-audio-reels-account.

Use it as an API endpoint (Standby)

Every input above also works as one HTTP request to this actor's endpoint (also on its Endpoints tab), by GET with the fields in the query string or by POST with the same fields as a JSON body:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  "https://steadyfetch--instagram-audio-reels-scraper.apify.actor/?audioUrls=1467739367151376&maxReelsPerAudio=20&includeTranscripts=true"

Setting	What it does
audioUrls	A sound page link (URL-encoded) or the sound's number. Repeat it for more than one.
maxReelsPerAudio	How many reels for each sound. 50 if you leave it out.
includeTranscripts	true adds what each reel says.

The sound rows and the reels come back in the response as JSON, with the same columns as dataset rows, charged at the same prices as a run. One request takes up to 5 sounds and 100 reels in all, 20 with transcripts (1 sound and 50 reels, 5 with transcripts, on the Apify free plan). The endpoint keeps no memory of what you already have, so every request reads fresh. A request whose first charge cannot be completed sends nothing.

Limits and good manners

• Max reels per sound: 50 by default, up to 480 (40 pages of 12). Above that the run continues at 480 and one uncharged row says so.
• Reel links and song names are not this actor's input. It reads a sound's page; a reel link is refused on an uncharged row that says how to open its sound. To get one reel's words, use the Instagram Reel Transcript Scraper.
• Only public data: what Instagram shows any visitor on a sound's page.

Related actors

• Instagram Reel Transcript Scraper — the words of reels you already have links to.
• Instagram Reels Keyword Search Scraper — reels found by a search phrase, with transcripts.
• Instagram Hashtag Scraper — the posts under a hashtag or keyword.
• Instagram Profile Posts Scraper — one account's own posts and reels.

Reliability

Every row says what it was charged. A read that fails is tried again before it is reported; a row that cannot be delivered is never charged; and the run never ends on a limit it set itself without saying so on the last row.

Support

Questions, a sound that returns something odd, or a column you need: open an issue on the Issues tab and it will be looked at.

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