curl --request POST \
--url https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"hostVideo": true,
"url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/",
"wordTimestamps": false
}
'import requests
url = "https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript"
payload = {
"hostVideo": True,
"url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/",
"wordTimestamps": False
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
hostVideo: true,
url: 'https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/',
wordTimestamps: false
})
};
fetch('https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'hostVideo' => true,
'url' => 'https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/',
'wordTimestamps' => false
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"hostVideo\": true,\n \"url\": \"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/\",\n \"wordTimestamps\": false\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"hostVideo\": true,\n \"url\": \"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/\",\n \"wordTimestamps\": false\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"hostVideo\": true,\n \"url\": \"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/\",\n \"wordTimestamps\": false\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"costUsd": 123,
"items": 123,
"output": {
"data": {
"items": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"text": "<string>",
"url": "<string>",
"bytes": 123,
"durationSeconds": 123,
"expiresUtc": 123,
"hostedUrl": "<string>",
"language": "<string>",
"likeCount": 123,
"mediaType": "<string>",
"ownerUsername": "<string>",
"segments": [
{
"end": 123,
"speaker": "<string>",
"start": 123,
"text": "<string>",
"words": [
{
"end": 123,
"start": 123,
"text": "<string>"
}
]
}
],
"shortcode": "<string>",
"source": "audio_asr",
"thumbnailUrl": "<string>"
}
]
},
"found": true,
"reason": "not_found"
},
"provider": "<string>",
"replayed": true,
"hint": "<string>",
"jqError": "<string>",
"resultId": "<string>",
"source": {
"artworkKey": "<string>",
"id": "<string>",
"kind": "anonymous",
"name": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}Instagram Reel Transcript
Transcribe any public Instagram reel or video post: the full speech transcript, speaker labels, and word-level timestamps, from a reel, /p/, or /tv/ URL or an Instagram CDN media URL you already hold. A video post is transcribed exactly like a reel. A photo post comes back found with its record and an empty transcript, charged the request price only. Transcription runs on MAI-Transcribe-2, chosen for its accuracy and its speaker labels. Turn on hostVideo to also get the MP4 on a hosted link that plays without an Instagram session. If you only want the text, instagram.media_transcript is the cheaper transcript-only option; if you only want the file, instagram.post is where you go.
Price: billed per audio minute - $1.50 per 1,000 requests base + $6.00 per 1,000 audio minutes, capped at $95.00 per 1,000 requests.
Routing: one lane serves this API today, so a failed attempt has nowhere to fail over to. Payment outcome follows the selected rail’s settlement policy.
Catalog: Instagram Reel Transcript pricing and uptime - live USD price, lane routing, and measured 30-day uptime. Every Instagram endpoint.
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"hostVideo": true,
"url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/",
"wordTimestamps": false
}
'import requests
url = "https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript"
payload = {
"hostVideo": True,
"url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/",
"wordTimestamps": False
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
hostVideo: true,
url: 'https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/',
wordTimestamps: false
})
};
fetch('https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'hostVideo' => true,
'url' => 'https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/',
'wordTimestamps' => false
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"hostVideo\": true,\n \"url\": \"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/\",\n \"wordTimestamps\": false\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"hostVideo\": true,\n \"url\": \"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/\",\n \"wordTimestamps\": false\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"hostVideo\": true,\n \"url\": \"https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfY6jCIgH-P/\",\n \"wordTimestamps\": false\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"costUsd": 123,
"items": 123,
"output": {
"data": {
"items": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"text": "<string>",
"url": "<string>",
"bytes": 123,
"durationSeconds": 123,
"expiresUtc": 123,
"hostedUrl": "<string>",
"language": "<string>",
"likeCount": 123,
"mediaType": "<string>",
"ownerUsername": "<string>",
"segments": [
{
"end": 123,
"speaker": "<string>",
"start": 123,
"text": "<string>",
"words": [
{
"end": 123,
"start": 123,
"text": "<string>"
}
]
}
],
"shortcode": "<string>",
"source": "audio_asr",
"thumbnailUrl": "<string>"
}
]
},
"found": true,
"reason": "not_found"
},
"provider": "<string>",
"replayed": true,
"hint": "<string>",
"jqError": "<string>",
"resultId": "<string>",
"source": {
"artworkKey": "<string>",
"id": "<string>",
"kind": "anonymous",
"name": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}{
"error": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"payment": {
"costUsd": 1,
"rail": "<string>",
"settlementState": "charged_undelivered"
},
"requestId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
}Authorizations
Your AnyAPI key as a Bearer token.
Headers
Optional wallet idempotency key, scoped to this customer for 24 hours. When the gateway honors the key, this synchronous in-process execution can continue after the caller disconnects, bounded by its execution deadline. A completed replayable result charges normally exactly once and can be replayed without another provider run or charge. A pending duplicate returns 409 idempotency_in_progress; reuse with different request semantics returns 409 idempotency_conflict.
1 - 255Query Parameters
Optional. Comma-separated keys (dotted paths like author.name descend into nested objects) to keep on each result item: each row of the API's result list, or the data object itself for an API that returns one record. Keys are matched relative to that item, not against the top-level response envelope, so use jq to reshape the whole envelope. Shrinks the response without changing cost.
Optional. Cap the number of result rows returned; a _truncated note reports how many were withheld so you can page via the API's own limit. An API that returns one record is not trimmed. Does not change cost.
x >= 0Optional. Return only a structural outline (top-level keys, item counts, and per-field byte sizes) instead of the full data. Does not change cost.
Optional. A jq expression applied to the result envelope; its output replaces output (multiple outputs collect into an array). Reshape freely, e.g. jq=.data | {title, description, md: .markdown[:3500]}. Runs sandboxed with a 250ms / 2MB budget; on failure the full result is returned with a jqError. Does not change cost.
Optional. The most you are willing to pay for this one request, in US dollars (for example 0.05). Any route that would charge more than this is not used, so a request only ever runs on something you can afford. If nothing is available at or below your amount, the request is refused before it runs, nothing is charged, and the message tells you the cheapest price per request so you can raise it. Leave it out to accept the normal price.
Body
The URL of a public Instagram reel or video post (e.g. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8yKXdRxKqK/), or an Instagram CDN media URL you already hold.
Optional, default true. When false, only the sources listed in source may serve; the request is refused with no charge if none of them can. When true, the listed sources are tried first and any other source may serve after them, at the normal price.
Set true to also get the reel's MP4 on a hosted link you can play without an Instagram session. Charged as an extra on top of the transcript (e.g. true). A photo post has no file to host, so a request that sets this on one is refused with no charge; send it without hostVideo to get the post record instead.
Optional. Source ids to skip for this request, taken from this endpoint's lanes[].source.id. The cheapest remaining source serves and the price is that of the dearest remaining source. An id that does not serve this endpoint, or that is also in source, is rejected as invalid input with no charge; skipping every source is rejected the same way.
1Optional; omit it and routing is unchanged, with the cheapest source serving. Prefer sources whose typical response time (median over the trailing 30 days, as published on this endpoint's lane health) is under this many milliseconds; among those, the cheapest serves. This can raise your price: when the cheapest source misses the target, a faster and dearer one serves, and you are quoted and charged its price. If no source is that fast the request is still served, by whichever source offers the best speed for its price - it is never refused for being slow. Sources we have not timed are tried last. This is a preference, not a guarantee: the median describes past requests and is not a ceiling on this one, and it excludes any wait this request itself asks for. On a paginated walk it applies to the first page only: later pages stay with the source that page chose, at the price it was quoted.
x >= 1Optional. Source ids to prefer, in order, taken from this endpoint's lanes[].source.id in /catalog or /apis. Omit it and the cheapest source serves, with automatic failover. Listed sources are tried first in the order given, then the others, unless allowFallbacks is false. A single source with allowFallbacks false is served only by that source at its price, quoted and charged exactly, with no failover. The price is that of the dearest source that may serve. An id that does not serve this endpoint is rejected as invalid input with no charge; a listed source that is not serving right now is refused with no charge, so omit source to be served by another. On a paginated walk, later pages must include the source that served page one, or omit source.
1Set true to include a precise timestamp for every word in the transcript (e.g. true).
Response
Normalized result.
USD charged on the original run. On a replay this value is echoed for parity; the replay itself is free.
Number of result rows returned; an API that returns one record counts it as one row. For per-result APIs the per-item cost is charged against this count; for input-priced APIs the charge is per submitted input, independent of this count.
Normalized output, or null when the replay payload was not retained.
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Record for the requested reel (one item), with the full transcript text, timed segments, source video metadata, and the hosted video link when hostVideo was asked for. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
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The reel's numeric Instagram media ID, as a string. Empty when the request supplied a CDN media URL, which carries no post record. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
The full speech transcript. Empty when the reel has no detectable spoken audio, or when the post is a photo with no video to transcribe. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
The reel URL the request asked for, returned as sent. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
Size of the hosted MP4 in bytes. Present only when hostVideo was true.
Video duration in seconds. Absent when there is no transcript, which is what measures it.
UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds. After this moment the hosted MP4 is deleted. Present only when hostVideo was true.
A direct link to the downloaded MP4, hosted by AnyAPI and playable without an Instagram session. Present only when hostVideo was true.
Detected spoken language (ISO 639-1 code, e.g. "en"). Absent when there is no transcript.
Number of likes on the reel. Absent when the lane that served the lookup does not carry a like count.
What kind of media this is, as Instagram labels it (for example a video or an image post). On a photo post this is how you tell that the empty transcript is the answer rather than silence.
Username of the reel's owner, without the @ prefix. Empty when the request supplied a CDN media URL.
Time-aligned transcript segments in playback order, one per sentence, each with its text, speaker label, and start/end offsets in seconds. A segment starts when its first word is spoken and ends when its last one finishes. Empty when the reel has no detectable spoken audio.
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Segment end offset in seconds from the start of the video.
Which speaker said this segment, as a stable label within this transcript (e.g. "0", "1").
Segment start offset in seconds from the start of the video.
The segment's transcribed text.
Every word in the segment with its own timing. Present only when wordTimestamps was true.
The reel's short code, the part of its instagram.com URL after /reel/. Empty when the request supplied a CDN media URL.
Why the transcript reads the way it does. "audio_asr" means the words come from speech recognition over the reel's audio; a reel with only music in it transcribes to an empty text this way, and its audio time is charged. "no_audio" means there was nothing to listen to: the video has no audio track, or the post is a photo with no video. The transcript is empty because that is the answer, and only the request price is charged, with no audio time. "transcript_unavailable" means recognition did not complete for this reel, so the transcript is empty for that reason rather than because the reel has no speech in it; the rest of the record is still what we resolved, and no audio time is charged.
audio_asr, no_audio, transcript_unavailable A link to the reel's cover image on Instagram. This link is signed by Instagram and stops working after a short time.
Whether the post was found. A reel or video post is found and transcribed. A photo post is found too: its record comes back with an empty transcript and is charged the request price only, with no audio minutes. A post that does not exist is not found and is free.
Present only when found is false, and says why there is no result. not_found: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. A found: false answer is a successful call, not an error, and costUsd is what it actually cost.
not_found Always "AnyAPI".
True when this response replays the durable result of an earlier run without billing or upstream execution.
Optional one-line nudge, absent when there is nothing to say. large_result: suggests the fields/max_items/summary/jq controls for a big response. paging_unavailable: means this result came from a source that cannot return a nextCursor, so it may be INCOMPLETE and cannot be continued - re-run with requireFields: ["nextCursor"] to be served only by a source that can page, which may cost more per request. malformed_query: means X read your search query differently than it looks (adjacent bare words are ANDed and OR binds tighter, so a multi-word alternative is not a phrase, and an operator after an unbracketed OR list applies to its last alternative only); the run was served and billed as X read it, and the hint carries the corrected query to send instead. date_adjusted: means a date you sent was outside the range the platform accepts, so the run used the nearest accepted date the hint names.
Present only when a jq expression failed; output then carries the full unshaped result and this explains why the reshape did not apply.
Opaque handle to the full unshaped result, cached ~15 min. Re-shape it for free (fields/max_items/summary/jq) via GET /v1/results/{id}, no re-billing. Absent when the result was too large to cache.
The source that served this run. Pass its id back as source to prefer it again, or as ignoreSources to avoid it. Absent when no source identity applies to the run.
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Key for this source's artwork.
Stable identifier for this source.
anonymous is a stable identity for an unattributed source; brand names the dataset that supplies the data.
anonymous, brand Display name for this source.