Social platforms

Get the transcript of an Instagram video · Instagram API

GET/instagram/posts/{shortcode}/transcript

$min $0.003

Returns the spoken-word transcript of an Instagram video post or Reel by shortcode, for videos up to a few minutes long. Returns `not_found` when the post does not exist.

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Request

curl https://api.unifapi.com/instagram/posts/{shortcode}/transcript \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"

Parameters

shortcodepathrequired: Post shortcode (URL slug).

Overview

This operation is part of the Instagram API in the social platforms category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.

Use it when a workflow needs Instagram public data alongside other social networks, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.

Common agent workflows

Fetch canonical public Instagram content for summarization, ranking, monitoring, or enrichment.
Attach engagement, author, media, and source metadata to an agent workflow.
Give an AI agent a stable Instagram data source without building a per-platform integration.
Normalize Instagram responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.

Response shape

Unified envelope, platform-native fields

Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
A not-found or invalid-input condition uses the unified UnifAPI error shape, so callers do not need special handling for each source platform.

Response status codes

200400401402404429500502503

Billing

This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 3 credits ($0.003) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.

Errors and retries

Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.

Response fields

Fields on each record in data

A successful Get the transcript of an Instagram video call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields.

startnumber | null: Start, in seconds.
endnumber | null: End, in seconds.
textstring | null: Spoken text.

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Agents & Skills built on Instagram

You rarely call Get the transcript of an Instagram video by hand. These prebuilt agents and skills already read Instagram data inside Claude or Codex — start from one of them, or call this endpoint yourself.