Facebook video transcript API reference

GET /v1/facebook/post/transcript

Transcript of a video post or reel: existing captions first, otherwise AI transcription of the audio.

Cost: 1 credit for captions; AI transcription 1 up to 2 minutes, then 5 per started minute of the whole video
Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

Name	Type	Required	Description
`url`	URL	yes	Post, video or reel URL. Accepted hosts: `facebook.com`, `fb.com`, `fb.watch`.
`allow_long_transcription`	boolean	no	Transcribe audio past 2 minutes with AI, at 5 credits per started minute of the whole video. Without it a longer video answers transcript_unavailable, which is free. Default `false`. Also accepted as `allowLongTranscription`.

Every request also accepts:

trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/facebook/post/transcript" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode "url=https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/"

1import os2import requests34params = {5    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/",6}7res = requests.get(8    "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/facebook/post/transcript",9    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},10    params=params,11)12body = res.json()1314if body["ok"]:15    print(body["data"])16else:17    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/facebook/post/transcript");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/"4}).toString();5const res = await fetch(url, {6  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },7});8const body = await res.json();910if (body.ok) {11  console.log(body.data);12} else {13  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);14}

1{2  "nodes": [3    {4      "name": "SocialScrape Facebook video transcript",5      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",6      "typeVersion": 4.2,7      "position": [8        0,9        010      ],11      "parameters": {12        "method": "GET",13        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/facebook/post/transcript",14        "sendQuery": true,15        "queryParameters": {16          "parameters": [17            {18              "name": "url",19              "value": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/"20            }21          ]22        },23        "sendHeaders": true,24        "headerParameters": {25          "parameters": [26            {27              "name": "x-api-key",28              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"29            }30          ]31        }32      }33    }34  ],35  "connections": {}36}

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened. Status 200.

200 OKSample response

1{2  "ok": true,3  "credits_charged": 1,4  "credits_remaining": 4999,5  "cached": false,6  "cached_at": null,7  "request_id": "req_d2d91dc1cdb2346c2edf20f6",8  "data": {9    "object": "transcript",10    "platform": "facebook",11    "video_id": "1803909017420449",12    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/",13    "language": "en-US",14    "source": "auto_captions",15    "duration_seconds": 59.861,16    "text": "But the standard that we should continuously aspire to exceed, which is why we are bringing that intensity, that discipline, that engineering ownership back to NASA, because great nations do not remain great by being caretakers of history,...",17    "segments": [18      {19        "start": 0.033,20        "end": 4.0,21        "text": "But the standard that we should continuously aspire to exceed,"22      },23      {24        "start": 4.0,25        "end": 7.166,26        "text": "which is why we are bringing that intensity, that discipline, that"27      },28      {29        "start": 7.166,30        "end": 11.4,31        "text": "engineering ownership back to NASA, because great nations do not remain great"32      }33    ],34    "available_languages": [35      "en-US"36    ],37    "extra": null38  },39  "cursor": null,40  "has_more": null41}

Response#

A Transcript object in data.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

Code	HTTP	Retry	Meaning
`invalid_params`	400	no	A parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
`unsupported_url`	400	no	The URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).
`not_found`	404	no	The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.
`transcript_unavailable`	404	no	No captions exist and AI transcription is not possible for this media.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

Example error:

1{2  "ok": false,3  "error": {4    "code": "transcript_unavailable",5    "message": "No captions exist and AI transcription is not possible for this media.",6    "retryable": false7  },8  "credits_charged": 0,9  "request_id": "req_efe140022d84117cb256b574"10}

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