# Reel2Text Video Transcription API

> Reel2Text Video Transcription API is a paid API for AI agents from reel2text-api.worrellworks2.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, live (last probed 2026-11-04, last successful call 2026-10-30).

Agents call it through Zero, which pays per call: no API key and no wallet of your own. New accounts start with $5.

Transcribes public short-form videos (TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Facebook) up to 180 seconds, returning timestamped transcripts with English translation and language detection

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://reel2text-api.worrellworks2.workers.dev/v1/transcribe?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: healthy
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Last successful call: 2026-10-30
- Success rate: 100% of calls made through Zero
- Rating: 2.3 / 5 from 1 review
- Activations on Zero: 1
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/reel2text-video-transcription-api-78158595
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_O98zlk4oLYSiyF_RlnlfC

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 reel2text-video-transcription-api-78158595 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you transcribe what's being said in this TikTok video and translate it to English if it's in another language? Here's the link: https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/123456789

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need spoken-word content extracted from short-form social media videos (TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Facebook) up to 3 minutes. It is uniquely suited for social video platforms and handles foreign-language translation automatically. Prefer it over generic speech-to-text APIs when the source is a public social media URL rather than a raw audio/video file. The pay-per-success model (failures are free) and automatic caching of repeat URLs make it cost-efficient for agents that may encounter the same viral video multiple times.

## Known failure modes

- Video URL is private or unavailable — job fails at no charge
- Video exceeds 180-second limit — rejected or fails
- Unsupported platform URL — request rejected
- Poll token expired before result retrieved — need to resubmit
- Transient worker error — retry with same URL (repeat videos cached)
- Invalid URL format — validation error on submission

## Output

Returns a job_id, a bearer token (shown once), a result_url to poll, and an estimated poll_after_seconds. For cached/repeat videos, status is 'done' and the transcript is returned inline immediately. Final result includes a timestamped transcript, detected language(s), and an English translation if the source language is non-English. Charged only on successful delivery.

## 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",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Public short-form video URL on facebook.com, fb.watch, instagram.com, tiktok.com, youtube.com or youtu.be. Max 180 seconds."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "job_id",
      "token",
      "status",
      "result_url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "token": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Bearer token for GET result_url. Shown once."
      },
      "job_id": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "status": {
       "enum": [
        "queued",
        "done"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "done = repeat video served from cache; result is inline"
      },
      "charged": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "expires_at": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "result_url": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "poll_after_seconds": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/reel2text-video-transcription-api-78158595/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from reel2text-api.worrellworks2.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/reel2text-api.worrellworks2.workers.dev/llms.txt)