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Instagram Transcript Scraper — Instagram Reels Transcript API

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Instagram reel transcripts: a creator's reels as text — full speech-to-text, the first-3s hook, language and timestamps, one row per reel with its date, plays and likes. Handle in, paste reel links, or chain a dataset ID. No login, any length. Music-only, private and failed reels are never charged.

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from $10.00 / 1,000 reel transcripts

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Steadyfetch Team

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Changelog

1.0.201 — 2026-10-30

A creator Instagram keeps refusing is now read another way on short runs too, on every Apify plan. On a run of two minutes or less, a creator whose profile Instagram refused on every retry could use up most of the clock on those retries, so the second way of reading the creator never got its turn and every reel came back uncharged with "please re-run". The retries now stop while there is still time to read the creator the other way and transcribe what it finds — on a 90-second run with several reels asked, early enough for the first reels to be transcribed in the same pass. The free plan's daily allowance of extra lookups is unchanged; a run past it says so on its row.
After a run that charged for every reel it delivered, the status line and the run summary end with one sentence: "If it earned its keep, a rating on the store page helps other buyers find it." It is not shown on runs that were held, handed back reels you already had, delivered nothing, or delivered anything uncharged.
Prices, which rows are charged, the input fields and the output columns are unchanged.

1.0.200 — 2026-10-29

When the on-screen text reader is busy, the run now waits for it instead of giving up on the reel. During a busy spell a photo post or a silent reel could come back as an uncharged "could not read its images right now — please re-run" row after a few seconds of retrying, even on a run with an hour left. The run now waits out the busy spell while it has time left and then reads the post, so those posts and reels are delivered on the run you started. Only a busy spell longer than the run itself still ends a post that way, uncharged.
A post or silent reel the run's own time limit ran out on now says so. It used to read as a problem on our side. A photo post with some images read ships with those images and says the rest were not read; one with none read yet is left for a re-run, uncharged; a silent reel keeps its no_speech row and says a longer run reads its on-screen text.
A skipped lookup names the time limit that ended it: Max run time when you set it, otherwise the run timeout. And a run whose reels have no speech while on-screen text was already on is no longer told to switch it on.
Prices, which rows are charged, the input fields and the output columns are unchanged.

1.0.199 — 2026-10-28

A creator Instagram keeps refusing is now read another way while the run still has time for it, on runs of any length. On a run of a few minutes, a creator whose profile Instagram refused on every retry could use up the whole clock on those retries, so the second way of reading the creator never got its turn and every reel came back uncharged with "please re-run". The retries now stop while there is still time to read the creator the other way and transcribe what it finds. A run that cannot use that second way keeps its retries as before. Prices are unchanged: one charge per delivered reel.
When a run is too short for that second way, the row says how long it needs. A creator row that ends because the run's time ran out first now names the run length that leaves room for it ("give the run at least N seconds"), instead of asking for a re-run on the same time limit, which would end the same way.

1.0.198 — 2026-10-28

Long videos are now transcribed instead of turned away for their file size. A reel whose video file was over 250 MB used to come back as an uncharged "larger than this actor accepts" row. It is now read and transcribed like any reel, and charged like any reel of its length. One long file is read at a time on a run at the default memory, up to 2 GB per file. A file past that, or past what a run with less memory has room for, still comes back uncharged, and its row now says which limit held it and what reads it — more memory, or more run time.
A run no longer stops taking reels early because finished reels were waiting their turn to be written. Rows are written in the order you asked for, and a reel that waited for slower reels ahead of it was timed as if it were slow itself, so the run kept back more of its time than the reels needed. That wait no longer counts.
Prices, which rows are charged, the input fields and the output columns are unchanged.

1.0.197 — 2026-10-27

A run no longer stops listing reels while it still has time to transcribe them. On a long run clock the listing used to keep half of the remaining time back for reels it had already found — even once every one of those reels was finished — so a run could stop with minutes unused and book the reels it never listed as "out of time". The time kept back is now exactly what the reels still waiting need, so the walk continues into the time you gave it. A run that ends on the page limit instead says so and points at Reels per creator.
Prices, which rows are charged, the input fields and the output columns are unchanged.

1.0.196 — 2026-10-22

A creator Instagram refuses no longer costs you minutes of waiting first. When Instagram refuses a creator on every connection of a full attempt, the run now goes straight to the second way it reads creators, instead of pausing for several minutes before asking it — and if that cannot answer either, the run keeps trying Instagram exactly as before.
The run's status line now says what the creator's row says. A creator with no posts at all reads the same on both: a real public profile with no posts on it, a definitive answer, and a hint to check the spelling if you meant a similar handle. A creator Instagram kept refusing for minutes is no longer told "please re-run" on the status line when its row says a re-run would wait as long.
Prices, which rows are charged, the input fields and the output columns are unchanged.

1.0.195 — 2026-10-22

Internal: a run now records why a reel whose file had no sound track had none, and why a second listen to a reel with no speech was not made. Results, rows and prices are unchanged.

1.0.194 — 2026-10-22

The input form now tells an AI agent what comes back. Its opening description says that each reel comes back as one row while the run goes — a delivered transcript with its status, or an uncharged row whose reason says why and what to change — and that a run ends on one summary row counting what was delivered and charged. The first sentence of "Instagram creators", "Read on-screen text on silent reels", "Watchlist name" and "New reels only" now says what the setting does.
A count setting from another actor's form is now named when it was not used. If you send maxReels, maxResults or a similar count beside your reels or creators, it is not a setting of this actor: the run uses "Max reels per creator" (maxReelsPerHandle) and "Max reels to process" (maxItems). The status line now says so and names those two settings even when reels were delivered; before, it said so only when nothing was.
Nothing changes about which reels are read, which rows are charged, the prices, the input fields or the output columns.

1.0.193 — 2026-10-22

Rebuilt on the patched Node runtime (no code change).

1.0.192 — 2026-10-21

A "Describe each reel" switch is on the form. It will add a description of what each transcribed reel shows — timed scenes, a short description and a summary for someone who cannot watch. Video descriptions are not available yet: until they start, a run with the switch on delivers the reels exactly as before, says so on its first row and on its status line, and charges nothing for descriptions. The API endpoint answers a request that asks for descriptions with a message pointing to runs.
Nothing else changes: the prices, which rows are charged, the other input fields and the output columns are the same.

1.0.191 — 2026-10-21

A run that stops at your maximum cost now says what to set it to. When a run stops because it reached your maximum cost per run (maxTotalChargeUsd), its status line and closing summary row now name the limit you set, how many reels it paid for and at what price, how many reels are left, and one figure for maxTotalChargeUsd that covers your whole list in a single run. Before, the line only said to raise the limit, so a run started again could stop at the same place. The figure is worked out from this run's own prices and charges, rounded up to the next five cents.
Nothing changes about which reels are read, which rows are charged, the prices, the input fields or the output columns.

1.0.190 — 2026-10-21

Internal: the monthly collection limit is now read from a shared setting at run start. Results, rows and prices are unchanged.

1.0.189 — 2026-10-21

A request to the API endpoint that charges more than one event now always sends every reel that was paid for. If a later charge in the same request (on-screen text, or the minutes past three on a long reel) cannot be completed, the reels already paid for are still sent; a reel whose own charge did not go through comes back in its place as a row saying it was not sent and not charged, so you can request it again; and the closing summary row now comes with the answer and counts only what was sent and charged. Nothing changes about runs, prices or charges.

1.0.188 — 2026-10-20

You can now call this actor like an API, with no run to start. Send a few Instagram creators or reel links to https://steadyfetch--instagram-reel-transcript-scraper.apify.actor (GET or POST, your Apify token as usual) and get each reel's transcript back in the same response: the same rows, with the same fields, a run writes, plus the run's closing receipt. One request transcribes up to 50 reels and names up to 10 creators (3 reels and 1 creator on the Apify free plan). Each event is charged at the same price as on a run; reels with no speech (unless you asked for their on-screen text), private or removed reels and failures are not charged, and a request whose charge cannot be completed sends no reels and charges nothing. The endpoint does not skip reels your account already has, and datasetId, pasted dataset rows, watchlists and newReelsOnly stay on runs. The actor's Endpoints tab lets you try it from the browser.
Nothing changes about runs: their input fields, output columns, prices and charges are the same.

1.0.187 — 2026-10-19

A run that reaches its limit on reels with no speech now says so, and names the setting that reads them. When most of the reels a run read had no speech and "Read on-screen text on silent reels" (includeOnScreenText) was off, the reels the run did not reach came back as uncharged limit_reached rows saying a new run would fetch them. A new run then met more reels with no speech and stopped the same way. Those rows, and the run's status line, now say that most of the reels read have no speech, that running the same list again the same way will likely stop at this limit again, and that setting includeOnScreenText to true reads a silent reel's on-screen text, charged like a transcript. A run that stops at this limit for any other reason keeps its wording.
A run where most reels had no speech and nothing was delivered now says so on its status line too, with the same sentence about includeOnScreenText.
Nothing changes about which reels are read, which rows are charged, the prices, the input fields or the output columns.

1.0.186 — 2026-10-18

A carousel with a video in it that Instagram's page showed as empty is now transcribed. When a pasted post link was a public carousel with a video in it and Instagram's page came back empty for the run, the row was an uncharged resolve_unavailable asking you to re-run, and a re-run could give the same row. The carousel's first video is now transcribed, as this actor already does for a carousel with a video, and charged like any reel: one reel-transcript per post ($0.015 on the Apify free plan, $0.014 on Bronze, $0.0125 on Silver and $0.01 on Gold and above), never one per video in the carousel. A video with no speech stays uncharged, as usual.
A public carousel whose video has been removed or restricted now says so, and no longer asks for a re-run. The row is an uncharged private_or_removed that says the post is a public carousel but its video cannot be transcribed from this link, and that running it again returns the same answer.
Nothing changes about the prices, the input fields or the output columns.

1.0.185 — 2026-10-17

A photo post that Instagram's page showed as empty is now read for its words. When a pasted photo post or all-photo carousel came back empty on Instagram's page and a second check found it public, the row was an unread, uncharged no_video_in_post saying a re-run might read it, and a re-run gave the same answer. Those posts are now read like any other photo post: the words in the first 5 images are delivered as the row's transcript, with one image-text charge per post ($0.035 on the Apify free plan, $0.030 on Bronze, $0.028 on Silver and $0.025 on Gold and above). A post whose photos carry no readable text stays uncharged.
A photo post whose photos cannot be reached from the link now says so, and no longer promises a re-run. The row stays an uncharged no_video_in_post; it now says the photos could not be read from this link instead of "re-running this link may read them".
A carousel with a video in it that Instagram did not show to the run now says what a re-run can do. The row (resolve_unavailable, uncharged, "Worth re-running" true) used to say the post might be private or removed. It now says the post is a public carousel with a video, that its first video is transcribed once Instagram shows the post, and that re-running straight away can return the same row.
Nothing changes about the prices, the input fields or the output columns.

1.0.184 — 2026-10-17

A short run asking for a few reels no longer stops looking while it still has time to fetch one. When you ask for a few reels (up to four in all) and set "Max run time" to two minutes or less, the run used to stop looking for reels at half its run time to keep the other half for transcribing. A creator whose newest posts are photos could then end with no reel found and much of the run time unused. The run now keeps looking until only the time one reel needs is left, so that reel is found and transcribed.
On a paid Apify plan, a creator Instagram refuses on a short run gets one more way to be read before the run ends. With "Max run time" at two minutes or less, when Instagram keeps refusing to show the creator's profile, the run now switches to its extra lookup for the creator while there is still time to transcribe a reel, instead of retrying Instagram until the time is gone. On the Apify free plan nothing changes.
On a short run, the run's OUTPUT summary now shows how many seconds it spent reading the creator's profile and posts, so a slow creator can be told apart from a run time that was simply too short. Nothing changes about which rows are charged, the input fields or the output columns.

1.0.183 — 2026-10-17

When some of a creator's reels turn out to have no sound, the run now goes on to that creator's next reels instead of stopping early. A run used to decide how many reels to take from a creator before it knew which of them were silent, so a creator with many silent reels could stop short of what you asked for with part of your spending limit unused. Silent reels still come back as rows and are still not charged; the run now keeps reading the creator's next reels until your requested number, the creator's last reel, the run's time or your spending limit is reached. Nothing changes about which rows are charged, the input fields or the output columns.

1.0.182 — 2026-10-17

Chained dataset rows that only carry a post link or short code (no video URL, no post type) are no longer skipped. Each post is looked up: a video post is transcribed at the normal price, a photo post is handled the same way as a pasted photo-post link, and a post that cannot be found gets an uncharged row that says why.

1.0.181 — 2026-10-16

New prices since 16 October 2026. A delivered reel transcript costs $0.015 on the Apify free plan, $0.014 on Bronze, $0.0125 on Silver and $0.01 on Gold and above (was $0.015, $0.01, $0.0075 and $0.0075). The long-video minute stays at $0.005.
Photo posts are now read for their words, at their own price. A pasted photo post or all-photo carousel has the words in its first 5 images read and delivered as the row's transcript, one image-text charge per post: $0.035 on the Apify free plan, $0.030 on Bronze, $0.028 on Silver and $0.025 on Gold and above. A post whose photos carry no readable text stays uncharged.
A reel from a chained Instagram scraper run whose video came without its sound is now transcribed. When a row from another scraper carried only the video stream, the reel used to come back as "no audio track", with a note to pass the scraper's audioUrl field. If the row carries the reel's code or link, the actor now fetches the reel itself and transcribes it, at the normal price per reel. Rows with neither, and reels that truly have no sound, read as before.
A reel whose first listen heard no speech now gets a second listen before it is marked as having none. When the second listen hears speech, the reel is transcribed and charged like any other; a reel that is truly music-only or silent keeps its uncharged row.
When the speech or text-reading service is busy and turns a request away, that no longer counts toward this run's limit — a busy spell can't stop the rest of your run. Those reels keep their usual 'service busy, nothing charged' row.
On the Apify free plan, a reel link that needs one more lookup than Instagram's own page now says so when the day's allowance is used up: the row names the time the allowance resets, and the reel can be run again after that time. Before, such a reel could be marked as blocked for good. One run on the Apify free plan also no longer holds back the shared daily allowance from the other runs on that plan while it works.
Plainer words in the input description and the free-plan allowance note. They now speak of "extra Instagram lookups" and of the run's own reach on a paid plan; nothing about what the run does changes.

1.0.180 — 2026-10-15

A reel whose audio track holds no sound is now answered plainly, and a turned-away download is retried on Instagram's main media server. A reel whose audio track has no sound in it now says so ("this reel's audio track holds no sound"), is not charged, is not asked again on your next run, and no longer shows up as a failure to re-run. When Instagram's media server turns a download away or cuts it off, the reel is retried on Instagram's main media server after short pauses, so a brief hiccup no longer costs you the reel. A reel that still cannot be fetched says what happened: the file arrived incomplete, the connection dropped, or what the server answered. Nothing changes about the price or the output columns.

1.0.179 — 2026-10-14

A reel link copied from a profile grid now reads as that one reel. A reel or post link copied from a profile grid (instagram.com//reel//) and pasted into "Instagram creators" is now read as that one reel, charged exactly as in the reel links field, instead of walking the creator's latest reels. Nothing changes about the price or the output columns.

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Changelog

1.0.201 — 2026-10-30

1.0.200 — 2026-10-29

1.0.199 — 2026-10-28

1.0.198 — 2026-10-28

1.0.197 — 2026-10-27

1.0.196 — 2026-10-22

1.0.195 — 2026-10-22

1.0.194 — 2026-10-22

1.0.193 — 2026-10-22

1.0.192 — 2026-10-21

1.0.191 — 2026-10-21

1.0.190 — 2026-10-21

1.0.189 — 2026-10-21

1.0.188 — 2026-10-20

1.0.187 — 2026-10-19

1.0.186 — 2026-10-18

1.0.185 — 2026-10-17

1.0.184 — 2026-10-17

1.0.183 — 2026-10-17

1.0.182 — 2026-10-17

1.0.181 — 2026-10-16

1.0.180 — 2026-10-15

1.0.179 — 2026-10-14

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Changelog

1.0.201 — 2026-10-30

1.0.200 — 2026-10-29

1.0.199 — 2026-10-28

1.0.198 — 2026-10-28

1.0.197 — 2026-10-27

1.0.196 — 2026-10-22

1.0.195 — 2026-10-22

1.0.194 — 2026-10-22

1.0.193 — 2026-10-22

1.0.192 — 2026-10-21

1.0.191 — 2026-10-21

1.0.190 — 2026-10-21

1.0.189 — 2026-10-21

1.0.188 — 2026-10-20

1.0.187 — 2026-10-19

1.0.186 — 2026-10-18

1.0.185 — 2026-10-17

1.0.184 — 2026-10-17

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1.0.181 — 2026-10-16

1.0.180 — 2026-10-15

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