# Instagram AI Transcript Extractor (`sian.agency/instagram-ai-transcript-extractor`)

AI transcripts + 30+ data points from Instagram reels & posts. The ONLY tool extracting actual spoken content + complete engagement metrics.

- **URL**: https://beta-securitybyobscurity.apify.com/sian.agency/instagram-ai-transcript-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [SIÁN OÜ](https://beta-securitybyobscurity.apify.com/sian.agency) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos, Automation
- **Stats:** 98 total users, 96 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 8 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

# README

## 🚀 Instagram Reel Transcription & Data Extractor

### The ONLY tool you need for complete Instagram content analysis

#### ⚡ **Get AI transcripts + 30+ data fields in ONE click**

*While others give you basic scraping, we deliver the complete package: perfect transcripts, viral metrics, and creator insights that actually matter.*

***

### 🎯 **Why Choose Our Extractor?**

✅ **ONLY tool with AI transcription** - Get perfect video-to-text conversion\
✅ **30+ premium data points** - Engagement, creator stats, technical metadata\
✅ **Lightning fast processing** - Results in under 2 minutes\
✅ **99% accuracy rate** - Professional-grade data extraction\
✅ **Export ready** - Clean CSV/JSON for immediate use

**🔥 What makes us different:** Every competitor forces you to use 2-3 separate tools. We do it all in one.

***

### 💼 **How It Works** (3 Simple Steps)

#### 1️⃣ **Paste Instagram URL**

Copy any Instagram reel or post URL

#### 2️⃣ **Click RUN**

Our AI engine processes everything automatically

#### 3️⃣ **Download Results**

Get transcript + complete data in seconds

***

### 📋 **What You Get** (Complete Value Package)

#### 🎯 **Core Value** - What sets us apart

**🏆 AI Transcript** - Perfect video-to-text conversion (our secret sauce)\
**📊 Viral Metrics** - Likes, views, plays, comments that matter\
**👤 Creator Intel** - Username, full name, verified status\
**🎬 Media Assets** - Direct video URLs, thumbnails, dimensions

#### 💰 **Business Intelligence** - Make data-driven decisions

**📈 Engagement Rates** - Real performance metrics\
**🎵 Audio Insights** - Original vs trending audio\
**📍 Location Data** - Geographic targeting info\
**🏷️ Social Tags** - Hashtags and mentions extracted

#### 🔍 **Complete Dataset** - 30+ Fields Include:

- **Content Analysis**: Caption, transcript, duration, type
- **Performance Metrics**: All engagement numbers that matter
- **Creator Profiles**: Complete influencer data
- **Technical Specs**: Video resolution, audio details
- **Social Intelligence**: Hashtags, mentions, location tags
- **Timing Data**: Post timestamps, processing status

***

### 💎 **Perfect For:**

#### 📊 **Content Marketers**

- Analyze viral content patterns and engagement
- Track competitor performance instantly
- Extract winning formulas from top creators

#### 🎯 **Agency Owners**

- Deliver premium client reports
- Scale content research effortlessly
- Justify higher pricing with better data

#### 🤖 **AI/ML Engineers**

- Build content classification systems
- Train models on real engagement data
- Create automated content moderation

#### 📈 **Growth Hackers**

- Identify trending audio and formats
- Track hashtag performance
- Monitor audience sentiment

***

### 🏆 **Competitive Advantages**

| Feature | Our Tool | Competitors |
|---------|----------|-------------|
| **AI Transcription** | ✅ Included | ❌ Not available |
| **Data Fields** | ✅ 30+ premium | ⚠️ 5-10 basic |
| **Processing Speed** | ✅ Under 2 min | ❌ 5-15 minutes |
| **Export Quality** | ✅ Clean, structured | ⚠️ Raw, messy |
| **Pricing** | ✅ All-in-one price | ❌ Multiple tools needed |

***

### 🚀 **Getting Started**

#### **Input**: Just paste your Instagram URL

```
https://www.instagram.com/reel/your-reel-code/
```

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

#### **Output**: Professional dataset with transcript prioritized

```json
{
  "transcript": "Hey everyone, in this video I'll show you...",
  "engagement": {"likes": 4795, "views": 21282, "comments": 910},
  "creator": {"username": "creator", "verified": true},
  "content": {"duration": 88.5, "caption": "Viral tips..."},
  // + 26 more valuable fields
}
```

***

### ⚡ **Ready to dominate Instagram analysis?**

**Start extracting premium data in 60 seconds →**

*Join 1000+ marketers who switched to our all-in-one solution*

# Actor input Schema

## `instagramUrl` (type: `string`):

🎬 **VIDEO CONTENT ONLY:** This actor extracts transcripts from spoken audio in videos.

📱 **How to get the URL:**

1. Open Instagram **video** reel or **video** post (with speaking/audio)
2. Click the **share** button (↗️)
3. Select **"Copy Link"**
4. Paste the link here

❌ **NOT supported:**
• Image carousels/slideshows (multiple photos)
• Music-only videos without speech
• Silent videos without audio

✅ **SUPPORTED:**
• Video reels (/reel/) with speech/talking
• Single video posts (/p/) with spoken audio

🤖 **Auto-correction:** URLs are automatically fixed if needed (e.g., /reels/ → /reel/)

⚠️ **Requirements:**
• Only **public profiles** can be processed
• URL must contain **VIDEO with spoken audio** for transcription

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "instagramUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG06PnPT9aT/"
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sian.agency/instagram-ai-transcript-extractor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sian.agency/instagram-ai-transcript-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call sian.agency/instagram-ai-transcript-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=sian.agency/instagram-ai-transcript-extractor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Instagram AI Transcript Extractor",
        "description": "AI transcripts + 30+ data points from Instagram reels & posts. The ONLY tool extracting actual spoken content + complete engagement metrics.",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "GvDwmuwI8QiDRz794"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-sian.agency-instagram-ai-transcript-extractor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/sian.agency~instagram-ai-transcript-extractor/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-sian.agency-instagram-ai-transcript-extractor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/sian.agency~instagram-ai-transcript-extractor/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-sian.agency-instagram-ai-transcript-extractor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "instagramUrl"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "instagramUrl": {
                        "title": "Instagram URL",
                        "pattern": "^https://(www\\.)?instagram\\.com/(reels?|p)/[A-Za-z0-9_-]+/?.*$",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "🎬 **VIDEO CONTENT ONLY:** This actor extracts transcripts from spoken audio in videos.\n\n📱 **How to get the URL:**\n1. Open Instagram **video** reel or **video** post (with speaking/audio)\n2. Click the **share** button (↗️)\n3. Select **\"Copy Link\"**\n4. Paste the link here\n\n❌ **NOT supported:** \n• Image carousels/slideshows (multiple photos)\n• Music-only videos without speech\n• Silent videos without audio\n\n✅ **SUPPORTED:** \n• Video reels (/reel/) with speech/talking\n• Single video posts (/p/) with spoken audio\n\n🤖 **Auto-correction:** URLs are automatically fixed if needed (e.g., /reels/ → /reel/)\n\n⚠️ **Requirements:** \n• Only **public profiles** can be processed\n• URL must contain **VIDEO with spoken audio** for transcription",
                        "default": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG06PnPT9aT/"
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
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                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
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                                "type": "string"
                            },
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                            },
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                                "type": "string"
                            },
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                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
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                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
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                                    }
                                }
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                            "options": {
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                                        "type": "string",
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                                "type": "string"
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                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
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}
```
