Instagram transcript generator

Copy the reel's link (tap the paper plane, then Copy link), paste it above and press Get transcript. A few seconds later you get every word spoken in the reel, with timestamps, beside its caption. Copy it, or download it as a text file or SRT captions.

Yes, public reels and videos up to 2 minutes long; for a carousel, its first video. Instagram can show captions while a reel plays but gives you no way to copy them, so this tool listens to the audio and transcribes it with speech-to-text.

Transcribe it here and switch to Text only: you get the spoken words as clean paragraphs, ready for a doc, a brief, or ChatGPT and Claude to rework into your own script. The Timestamps view shows where each sentence starts, which helps when you shoot or edit to the same beats.

Yes. You get 5 free tries a day without an account. Sign up free for 100 credits, plus a top-up to 25 every day. No card needed. Without an account each transcript uses one free try. With an account a transcript costs 5 credits, or 1 credit if anyone transcribed the same reel in the last 30 days.

Because nobody speaks in them. Reels with only music have no words to write down, and Instagram mutes the whole video when it removes a song for copyright. Photos have no audio, and posts from private accounts can't be read at all.

Yes, 2 minutes. A longer video is turned down before transcription starts, and the message says how long it is. It still uses a free try (or 1 credit), because we had to look the video up.

Most spoken languages. Speech-to-text detects the language and transcribes in it, and the result names the language it heard. It's machine transcription, so names, slang and words over loud music can come out wrong; check anything you quote.

Yes. It's one API request per reel to /v2/instagram/media/transcript with your API key, and it works inside Claude as an MCP connector. List a creator's reels with the User reels endpoint first.