Social Video Transcriber

Transform your social videos into actionable insights! Instantly convert Instagram Reels, TikTok, Youtube Shorts and Facebook Reels into searchable transcripts with optional timestamps, speaker labels, and automatic (or manual) language detection. Process one link or many in a single run. Unlock the full value of your content for analysis, accessibility, and growth.

Note: Only publicly available videos can be transcribed. Private or restricted videos are not supported.

Important: Due to CORS security and anti-scraping/bot measures, success rates are not guaranteed. The platform actively blocks automated access, which may result in failed downloads even for public content.

Why Use This Tool?

• Automate tedious work: No more manual transcription, get results in minutes, not hours.
• Unlock hidden insights: Search, analyze, and repurpose your video content for new opportunities.
• Boost accessibility: Make your videos inclusive for all audiences with accurate transcripts.
• Enhance discoverability: Improve SEO and compliance with rich, timestamped text.
• Stay ahead: Track trends, monitor competitors, and optimize your content strategy with ease.

Features

• Supports Instagram Reels, TikTok, Youtube Shorts, Facebook Reels, and Facebook Watch videos (public videos only)
• Bulk transcription: process multiple video URLs in a single run
• Timestamps: [start - end] markers on each line (on by default; can be turned off)
• Optional speaker diarization: label different speakers ([Speaker 0], [Speaker 1], …), ideal for interviews and podcasts (off by default)
• Language: auto-detect by default, or pick a specific language (see supported languages below)

Use Cases

• Content Creators: Generate captions, repurpose content, and analyze performance.
• Marketers: Track brand mentions, analyze trends, and optimize strategy.
• Researchers: Study social media trends and extract insights from public discourse.
• Businesses: Create training materials, monitor feedback, and maintain compliance records.

Supported Languages

• Bulgarian bg, Catalan ca, Chinese (Simplified) zh-CN, Chinese (Traditional) zh-TW
• Czech cs, Danish da, Dutch / Flemish nl, English en, Estonian et, Finnish fi
• French fr, German de, German (Switzerland) de-CH, Greek el, Hindi hi, Hungarian hu
• Indonesian id, Italian it, Japanese ja, Korean ko, Latvian lv, Lithuanian lt
• Malay ms, Norwegian no, Polish pl, Portuguese pt, Romanian ro, Russian ru
• Slovak sk, Spanish es, Swedish sv, Thai th, Turkish tr, Ukrainian uk, Vietnamese vi

Input Example

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/reel/example/",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/123"
  ],
  "include_timestamps": true,
  "enable_diarization": false,
  "language": "auto"
}

All fields except urls are optional. include_timestamps defaults to true, enable_diarization to false, and language to "auto" (auto-detect).

Output Example (Success)

{
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/example/",
  "videoId": "unique-video-id",
  "status": "success",
  "durationSec": 45.2,
  "transcript": "[0.00s - 2.50s] Welcome to my channel! [2.50s - 8.10s] Today I'm going to show you how to make the perfect pasta dish.",
  "detected_language": "en",
  "speakers_detected": null,
  "timestamp": "2024-01-01T12:00:00.000Z"
}

With include_timestamps: false, the transcript is plain text without the [start - end] markers. With enable_diarization: true, lines are labeled [Speaker 0] ... and speakers_detected reports the speaker count.

Output Example (Failed)

{
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/private/",
  "videoId": "unique-video-id",
  "status": "failed",
  "error": "Failed to download video (video may be private or restricted)",
  "timestamp": "2024-01-01T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Output Fields

• sourceUrl: Original video URL
• videoId: Unique identifier for the video
• status: "success" or "failed"
• durationSec: Video duration in seconds (only for success)
• transcript: Transcribed text with [start - end] timestamps and/or [Speaker N] labels when those options are enabled (only for success)
• detected_language: BCP-47 code for the detected language (only for success)
• speakers_detected: Number of distinct speakers (only when diarization is enabled; otherwise null)
• error: Error message (only for failed outputs)
• timestamp: Processing time

How to Run on Apify

1. Open the actor on Apify and click Try actor.
2. Add one or more public video URLs in Video URLs (urls). Optionally toggle timestamps, speaker diarization, or pick a language. Private/restricted videos will fail.
3. Start the run. When it finishes, check the Dataset tab for the transcripts.

Input Schema

• urls (string[]): public video URLs to process (one or many).
• include_timestamps (boolean, default true): add [start - end] markers to each line.
• enable_diarization (boolean, default false): label different speakers.
• language (string, default "auto"): spoken language, or auto-detect.
• start_urls (string): deprecated single-URL field, kept for backward compatibility. Ignored when urls is provided.

Output Location

• Results are saved to the run’s Dataset in JSON items matching the examples below.

Usage Limits

• Free tier: 5 videos total, across all runs. Only successfully transcribed videos count; failed videos don't use up your quota. If a run has more URLs than you have left, the first ones are processed and the rest are returned as failed with errorCode: "FREE_LIMIT_REACHED". Upgrade to continue.
• Paid plans: Unlimited videos per Apify limits.

Transcribing more than 5 videos requires an Apify paid plan. See Apify Pricing.

Pricing

This actor uses Apify's pay-per-event model. You are charged for two things: each video processed (Videos Transcribed) and each second of video transcribed (Seconds of Video Transcribed). Platform usage (compute, storage, proxies) is free, so there are no separate infrastructure charges on top of the rates below.

Prices are per 1,000 units, as on the Apify pricing table, with the single-unit price in brackets:

Event	Free	Starter (Bronze)	Scale (Silver)	Business (Gold)
Seconds of Video Transcribed (per 1,000 seconds)	$1.80 ($0.0018/s)	$1.50 ($0.0015/s)	$1.20 ($0.0012/s)	$1.00 ($0.0010/s)
Videos Transcribed (per 1,000 videos)	$8.00 ($0.008/video)	$5.00 ($0.005/video)	$5.00 ($0.005/video)	$5.00 ($0.005/video)
Platform usage	Free	Free	Free	Free

Higher Apify plans get an automatic discount, so a Business plan (Gold tier) pays 44% less per second of video than Free.

total = (Videos Transcribed rate × number of videos) + (Seconds of Video Transcribed rate × total seconds of video)

Two details that matter:

• Videos Transcribed is charged per successful video, not per run. A single run with 10 URLs that all succeed is charged 10 Videos Transcribed events. Bulk runs do not amortize this fee.
• Length is rounded to the nearest second, measured from the video's audio track. A 30.4 second video bills as 30 seconds. A video that rounds to 0 seconds is not charged any Seconds of Video Transcribed.

Example, 5 videos of 30 seconds each on the Free tier: (5 × $0.008) + (150 × $0.0018) = $0.31.

Failed videos are free. A video that cannot be downloaded (private, removed, geo-blocked, or blocked by anti-bot measures) or cannot be transcribed is not charged at all: no Videos Transcribed fee and no Seconds of Video Transcribed. You only pay for videos that return a transcript ("status": "success").

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