# AnyAPI Instagram Reel Transcript

> AnyAPI Instagram Reel Transcript is a paid API for AI agents from api.getanyapi.com, paid per call via x402, $0.025/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Extracts and returns the spoken transcript (captions/subtitles) from an Instagram Reel video by URL or ID.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/instagram.reel_transcript
- Price: $0.025/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/anyapi-instagram-reel-transcript-062464e1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_no8vGbcgjKAfnYP4_eJo6

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability anyapi-instagram-reel-transcript-062464e1 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you grab the full transcript of this Instagram Reel for me? Here's the link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/ABC123xyz/

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to extract the spoken or captioned text content from an Instagram Reel without manually watching it. Ideal for content analysis, sentiment analysis pipelines, accessibility tools, or archiving Instagram video content as text. Prefer this over YouTube transcript endpoints when the source content is specifically on Instagram.

## Known failure modes

- Reel is private or restricted — returns error or empty transcript
- Invalid or malformed Instagram Reel URL/ID — returns validation error
- Reel has no captions or auto-generated subtitles available — returns empty transcript
- Instagram blocks or rate-limits the scraper — returns access denied error
- Reel has been deleted or is unavailable — returns not found error
- Network timeout fetching the Reel — returns timeout error

## How this service works

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## Output

A JSON object containing the extracted transcript text from the specified Instagram Reel, including the spoken words, captions, or subtitles derived from the video's audio track.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

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