- Cost
- 1 creditAI transcription is billed by the started minute after 2
- Cached repeats
- 0 creditssend max_age_days, results kept 30 days
- Failed requests
- 0 credits
The post's video file is read from its public embed page and transcribed on the shared speech boxes at the transcript price (1 credit up to 2 minutes, then 5 per started minute of the whole video). Photos and carousels without a video answer transcript_unavailable, which is free.
You send one of url or id.
Part of the Instagram Scraper API: 16 Instagram endpoints on one key.
Request
Send your key in the x-api-key header.
1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/instagram/post/transcript" \2 -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3 --data-urlencode 'url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8rKmYvsrck/'1import os2import requests34params = {5 "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8rKmYvsrck/",6}7res = requests.get(8 "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/instagram/post/transcript",9 headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},10 params=params,11 timeout=60,12)13body = res.json()1415if body["ok"]:16 print(body["data"])17else:18 print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/instagram/post/transcript");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3 url: "https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8rKmYvsrck/",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 Instagram reel 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/instagram/post/transcript",14 "sendQuery": true,15 "queryParameters": {16 "parameters": [17 {18 "name": "url",19 "value": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8rKmYvsrck/"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}Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
url | url | one of | Post or reel URL (/p/..., /reel/..., /tv/...). |
id | string | one of | Shortcode or numeric media id. Also accepted as shortcode, media_id. |
allow_long_transcription | boolean | 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. Also accepted as allowLongTranscription. |
Every request also accepts trim, raw and max_age_days.
Response
Sample from a recorded response, shortened. Values are examples, not your data.
1{2 "ok": true,3 "credits_charged": 1,4 "credits_remaining": 4999,5 "cached": false,6 "cached_at": null,7 "request_id": "req_1abb44311f35f490431f9a6e",8 "data": {9 "object": "transcript",10 "platform": "instagram",11 "video_id": "C8rKmYvsrck",12 "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8rKmYvsrck/",13 "language": "en",14 "source": "ai",15 "duration_seconds": 20,16 "text": "This is a canned transcript for the fixture.",17 "segments": [18 {19 "start": 0,20 "end": 3.2,21 "text": "This is a canned transcript for the fixture."22 }23 ],24 "available_languages": null,25 "extra": null26 },27 "cursor": null,28 "has_more": null29}Fields
One Transcript in data.
A field the platform does not give is null, never made up. Extra platform details are in extra.
| Field | Type | Always | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
object | "transcript" | ||
platform | Platform | yes | |
video_id | string or null | ||
url | string or null | ||
language | string or null | BCP 47, "en" | |
source | "captions" or "auto_captions" or "ai" | yes | |
duration_seconds | number or null | ||
text | string | yes | |
segments | TranscriptSegment[] or null | ||
available_languages | string[] or null | ||
extra | object or null |
Full field list in the reference for this endpoint and the data models. Errors are listed under Errors.
Questions
Which errors can it return?
invalid_params (do not retry), unsupported_url (do not retry), not_found (do not retry), transcript_unavailable (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.
Is there an SDK call for it?
The Python client has client.instagram.post_transcript(...) and the TypeScript client client.instagram.postTranscript(). Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. Install them from PyPI (socialscrape-sdk) or npm (socialscrape); plain HTTP works in any language.
Can an AI agent call it?
Yes. The MCP server, which you run on your own machine, reaches every built endpoint, with the same prices.