# Instagram Media Transcript

> Instagram Media Transcript is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status healthy (last checked 2026-10-30, last successful call 2026-10-30).

Fetches the transcript (spoken text) from an Instagram post or reel URL

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.orthogonal.com/scrapecreators/v2/instagram/media/transcript?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: healthy
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Last successful call: 2026-10-30
- Success rate: 100% of calls made through Zero
- Rating: 5.0 / 5 from 1 review
- Activations on Zero: 1
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/instagram-media-transcript-3082cbad
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_a7lT0Pb8GH3bZmf3D-sYN

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 instagram-media-transcript-3082cbad
```

Example prompt: Can you get me the transcript of what's being said in this Instagram reel? Here's the link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/ABC123xyz/

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need the spoken text content of an Instagram reel or post and don't want to manually watch or transcribe video. Ideal for content research, brand monitoring, influencer analysis, or repurposing video content into written formats. Prefer this over general web scraping tools when the target is specifically Instagram media transcripts.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or inaccessible Instagram URL returns an error
- Private or restricted Instagram posts cannot be scraped
- Reels with no spoken audio return empty or null transcript
- URL parameter missing or malformed causes request failure
- Rate limiting or Instagram anti-scraping measures may block retrieval

## How this service works

Transcript

## Output

Returns the spoken transcript text extracted from the specified Instagram post or reel, enabling text-based analysis, summarization, or repurposing of video audio content.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Instagram post or reel URL"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/instagram-media-transcript-3082cbad/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)