Instagram Reels Transcript API

Instagram has no API for what is said in a Reel. Transkrio downloads the public Reel's audio and transcribes it, so you get the words as text with one request.

curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api.transkrio.com/v1/transcript?url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/XXXXXXXXXXX/&format=text"

Details

• Price: 1 credit per started minute of audio. A typical Reel costs 1 credit.
• Languages: the audio is transcribed in the language it is spoken. Pass lang= to force one.
• Output: timestamped segments, full text, SRT or VTT.
• Metadata: /v1/metadata returns the caption, author, duration and counts.
• No token: no Instagram Graph API app, review or business account needed.

Use cases

Agencies use Reel transcripts to repurpose a client's video into captions, carousels and blog posts, to add subtitles, and to keep a searchable library of everything a brand has said on video. Researchers and social listening tools use them to analyze spoken content at scale. See repurposing videos into posts.

Try one Reel in the free Instagram Reel transcript tool, or automate it with the n8n node. Same key works for TikTok, YouTube and podcasts.