Instagram Reels to Text · @handle
Pricing
from $5.00 / 1,000 reel transcripts
Handle in, transcripts out: a creator's recent reels turned into text with a 3-second hook. Music-only, private and failed reels are never charged. No login, any length, one box — every row also carries the post's date, plays and likes. Or paste reel links, or chain a dataset ID.
Handles or profile URLs — nasa, @nasa or https://www.instagram.com/nasa/. The actor lists that creator's most recent reels itself and transcribes them; no scraper and no login needed. Private accounts, missing handles and creators with no reels come back as uncharged rows with the reason stated.
How many of each creator's most recent reels to transcribe. Best-effort: if Instagram stops serving more part-way through, the run keeps what it listed, says so, and charges only for delivered transcripts.
Plain Instagram links — instagram.com/reel/…/ or instagram.com/p/…/ — exactly as copied from the app or browser. The actor resolves each reel's video itself; links that can't be resolved (private, removed, or embed-restricted posts) come back as uncharged rows with the reason stated.
Instagram CDN media links (.mp4 on scontent-.cdninstagram.com, instagram.f.fna.fbcdn.net, or video.*.fbcdn.net) — the videoUrl / audioUrl field from any Instagram scraper result. These signed URLs expire in about 1–3 days, so transcribe soon after scraping; expired rows come back uncharged.
The default dataset ID of a finished Instagram scraper run (works with apify/instagram-scraper, instagram-reel-scraper, instagram-post-scraper, instagram-api-scraper and others). With Apify's 'Connect actor' integration this is filled automatically — the cleanest way to chain.
Paste rows from your Instagram scraper run. The actor deep-scans each row for reel video/audio URLs + metadata (creator, caption, short code) — works with any scraper's output shape, including nested posts.
OFF (default): a reel with no speech is never charged. ON: music-only and silent reels have their on-screen text read from the reel's own frames and delivered as onScreenText, charged like a transcript. Reels with no readable on-screen text stay uncharged either way. About 1 in 6 reels is music-only.
Safety cap on how many reels/videos to transcribe in one run, across every input above.
