# Scrape Facebook Reels with captions and transcripts

**Use case:** 

Scrape Facebook Reels and get a plain-text transcript for every short reel (under 2 minutes). Long reels are skipped for free and flagged in the row. Great for content audits, SEO research, LLM-friendly reel summaries, and accessibility pipelines. Set translateTo to also translate transcripts into any of 100 languages with your own OpenAI key.

## Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/ATTNVideo"
  ],
  "maxReels": 10,
  "enrichReelDetails": true,
  "fetchTranscript": true,
  "enrichAuthorProfile": true,
  "fetchComments": false,
  "maxCommentsPerReel": 0,
  "fetchCommentReplies": false,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 0,
  "translateTo": [],
  "cacheMaxAge": "7d"
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "reel.post_id": {
    "label": "Post ID",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "reel.url": {
    "label": "Reel URL",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "transcriptAvailable": {
    "label": "Available",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "transcript_note_code": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "transcriptText": {
    "label": "Transcript",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "transcript_skipped_reason": {
    "label": "Skip reason",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "_metadata.transcript_fetched": {
    "label": "Fetched",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "_metadata.transcript_from_cache": {
    "label": "From cache",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "translations": {
    "label": "All translations (object)",
    "format": "object"
  },
  "translations.af.text": {
    "label": "Afrikaans translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.sq.text": {
    "label": "Albanian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.am.text": {
    "label": "Amharic translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ar.text": {
    "label": "Arabic translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.hy.text": {
    "label": "Armenian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.az.text": {
    "label": "Azerbaijani translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.eu.text": {
    "label": "Basque translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.be.text": {
    "label": "Belarusian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.bn.text": {
    "label": "Bengali translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.bs.text": {
    "label": "Bosnian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.bg.text": {
    "label": "Bulgarian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.my.text": {
    "label": "Burmese translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ca.text": {
    "label": "Catalan translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.zh.text": {
    "label": "Chinese (Simplified) translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.zh-TW.text": {
    "label": "Chinese (Traditional) translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.hr.text": {
    "label": "Croatian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.cs.text": {
    "label": "Czech translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.da.text": {
    "label": "Danish translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.nl.text": {
    "label": "Dutch translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.en.text": {
    "label": "English translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.et.text": {
    "label": "Estonian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.tl.text": {
    "label": "Filipino (Tagalog) translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.fi.text": {
    "label": "Finnish translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.fr.text": {
    "label": "French translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.gl.text": {
    "label": "Galician translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ka.text": {
    "label": "Georgian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.de.text": {
    "label": "German translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.el.text": {
    "label": "Greek translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.gu.text": {
    "label": "Gujarati translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ht.text": {
    "label": "Haitian Creole translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ha.text": {
    "label": "Hausa translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.he.text": {
    "label": "Hebrew translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.hi.text": {
    "label": "Hindi translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.hu.text": {
    "label": "Hungarian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.is.text": {
    "label": "Icelandic translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ig.text": {
    "label": "Igbo translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.id.text": {
    "label": "Indonesian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ga.text": {
    "label": "Irish translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.it.text": {
    "label": "Italian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ja.text": {
    "label": "Japanese translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.jv.text": {
    "label": "Javanese translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.kn.text": {
    "label": "Kannada translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.kk.text": {
    "label": "Kazakh translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.km.text": {
    "label": "Khmer translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.rw.text": {
    "label": "Kinyarwanda translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ko.text": {
    "label": "Korean translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ku.text": {
    "label": "Kurdish translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ky.text": {
    "label": "Kyrgyz translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.lo.text": {
    "label": "Lao translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.la.text": {
    "label": "Latin translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.lv.text": {
    "label": "Latvian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.lt.text": {
    "label": "Lithuanian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.lb.text": {
    "label": "Luxembourgish translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.mk.text": {
    "label": "Macedonian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.mg.text": {
    "label": "Malagasy translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ms.text": {
    "label": "Malay translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ml.text": {
    "label": "Malayalam translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.mt.text": {
    "label": "Maltese translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.mi.text": {
    "label": "Maori translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.mr.text": {
    "label": "Marathi translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.mn.text": {
    "label": "Mongolian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ne.text": {
    "label": "Nepali translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.no.text": {
    "label": "Norwegian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.or.text": {
    "label": "Odia (Oriya) translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ps.text": {
    "label": "Pashto translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.fa.text": {
    "label": "Persian (Farsi) translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.pl.text": {
    "label": "Polish translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.pt.text": {
    "label": "Portuguese translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.pa.text": {
    "label": "Punjabi translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ro.text": {
    "label": "Romanian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ru.text": {
    "label": "Russian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.sm.text": {
    "label": "Samoan translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.gd.text": {
    "label": "Scottish Gaelic translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.sr.text": {
    "label": "Serbian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.sn.text": {
    "label": "Shona translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.sd.text": {
    "label": "Sindhi translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.si.text": {
    "label": "Sinhala translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.sk.text": {
    "label": "Slovak translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.sl.text": {
    "label": "Slovenian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.so.text": {
    "label": "Somali translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.es.text": {
    "label": "Spanish translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.su.text": {
    "label": "Sundanese translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.sw.text": {
    "label": "Swahili translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.sv.text": {
    "label": "Swedish translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.tg.text": {
    "label": "Tajik translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ta.text": {
    "label": "Tamil translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.te.text": {
    "label": "Telugu translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.th.text": {
    "label": "Thai translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.tr.text": {
    "label": "Turkish translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.tk.text": {
    "label": "Turkmen translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.uk.text": {
    "label": "Ukrainian translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ur.text": {
    "label": "Urdu translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.ug.text": {
    "label": "Uyghur translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.uz.text": {
    "label": "Uzbek translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.vi.text": {
    "label": "Vietnamese translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.cy.text": {
    "label": "Welsh translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.xh.text": {
    "label": "Xhosa translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.yi.text": {
    "label": "Yiddish translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.yo.text": {
    "label": "Yoruba translation",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "translations.zu.text": {
    "label": "Zulu translation",
    "format": "text"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [🎬 Facebook Reels Scraper - MP4, Views, Audio [NO LOGIN]](https://apify.com/unseenuser/fb-reels.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/unseenuser/fb-reels.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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