---
title: "Instagram Transcript API"
method: GET
path: "/v1/instagram/transcript"
tags: ["Instagram"]
---

# Instagram Transcript API

`GET /v1/instagram/transcript`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.captapi.com`
- URL: `https://api.captapi.com/v1/instagram/transcript`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `X-API-Key`

Turn any Instagram Reel's speech into text — the full transcript plus timestamped segments, ready for search, subtitles, or AI pipelines.

Send a Reel URL and the Instagram Transcript API returns everything spoken in the video as clean text: the full transcript, timestamped segments (start time and duration for each line), and word count. Auto-detects the spoken language, or pass an optional language code (like 'tr' or 'en') to pin it — recommended for short clips. A photo or photo carousel is 422 not_a_video (retryable false, 0 credits) with suggestedEndpoint /v1/instagram/details — not a 502. Mixed carousels transcribe a video slide; img_index selects that slide when present. Great for making Reels searchable, generating subtitles, feeding AI tools, or turning video into text. No Instagram login or OAuth required. Pass cache=true to serve from the 24h shared cache (0 credits on hit); default is always fresh.

Docs: https://captapi.com/apis/instagram-transcript

## Query parameters

- `url` string, required
- `language` string
- `cache` boolean

## Response `200`

Success. The data object for this endpoint.

- object
  - `success` unknown, required
  - `data` object, required
    - `platform` string: Platform identifier for this response (matches the endpoint's platform).
    - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
    - `language` string: Detected or requested language code.
    - `text` string: Full transcript — segment texts joined with a single space. Same key as YouTube/Rumble transcript endpoints.
    - `segments` object[]
      - `text` string: Full transcript — segment texts joined with a single space. Same key as YouTube/Rumble transcript endpoints.
      - `startMs` integer: Start ms. Example: 0.
      - `endMs` integer: End ms. Example: 4640.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request: wrong platform URL, unknown endpoint, or an invalid parameter value. Not billed.
- `401`: Missing, invalid or revoked API key. Not billed.
- `402`: Not enough credits for this request. Not billed.
- `404`: The resource does not exist or is not public. Not billed.
- `422`: A required parameter is missing or has the wrong type. Not billed.
- `429`: Rate limit reached. Wait for Retry-After seconds. Not billed.
- `502`: The platform could not be reached or returned nothing usable. Retryable, not billed. 503 and 504 use the same envelope.

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