Instagram Transcript: Reels, Posts & Live Replays

Paste any public Instagram video link — a Reel, video post, saved Live broadcast, or Story with audio — and get a verbatim transcript in the spoken language, a summary and key points in your chat language, and a downloadable file.

The format adapts to how you ask: plain text by default, timestamped Markdown when you mention timestamps, and SRT subtitles when you mention captions. No settings menu, no format toggles, and no copy-pasting from Instagram’s auto-captions.

What it does

Turns any public Instagram video link into a downloadable transcript document with three parts:

• Summary — 2–4 sentences capturing what the video covers, in your chat language
• Key Points — 5–7 bullets pulling out the hooks, claims, named entities, and conclusions, in your chat language
• Transcript — the full verbatim spoken text, paragraphed for readability and kept in the spoken language so quotes, hooks, and on-record statements remain exact

For short clips, the full transcript appears directly in the chat reply. For longer videos, such as saved Live replays or longer video posts, the chat shows the Summary and Key Points with a file pointer, so a 30-minute video does not dump a wall of text into the conversation.

Who it’s for

• Content creators repurposing Reels for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn, or X — pull the spoken script out as ready-to-paste text in seconds.
• Social media managers localizing Instagram campaigns across markets — verbatim transcripts in the source language preserve exactly what was said, ready for human or AI translation downstream.
• Marketers and competitive researchers studying viral Reels and video posts — read the talking points and capture the hooks without rewatching dozens of videos at 1x speed.
• Recipe collectors, students, and learners turning cooking Reels, lectures, and educational videos into searchable, scannable notes — read the words once instead of replaying the same clip four times.
• Researchers, journalists, and accessibility teams quoting Reels in articles, generating SRT captions for hearing-impaired audiences, or fact-checking viral content — the transcript is verbatim, never paraphrased.
• Anyone watching with sound off — at the office, on transit, or at midnight next to a sleeping partner.

What’s different about this skill

Two-language output by default. The transcript stays verbatim in whatever language the creator was speaking, so every quote remains intact word for word. The summary and key points come back in the language you used for your prompt. A Spanish Reel transcribed by an English-speaking user gets a Spanish transcript and an English summary; a Japanese video post transcribed by a Mandarin-speaking user gets a Japanese transcript and a Mandarin summary. No toggle to flip and no language argument to remember — dual-language output is the default because that is what creators, marketers, and researchers actually need.

Output format from your sentence, not a settings page. Say "give me subtitles" and you get an SRT file ready for Premiere, CapCut, DaVinci, or YouTube Studio. Say "with timestamps so I can find the quote" and you get timestamped Markdown with [mm:ss] paragraph markers. Say nothing format-specific and you get clean plain text. The keyword scan works in English and across Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and other supported languages — "字幕", "タイムスタンプ", and "자막" route the same way as their English counterparts.

Built for public Instagram video formats. Reels are the most common case, but the skill also handles video posts in the feed, saved Live broadcast replays, and Stories with audio that are still within their 24-hour window. One link box covers every supported format.

Verbatim, not paraphrased. The transcript is produced by speech recognition and never rewritten. Filler words, repetitions, and hesitations stay as spoken. This matters when you are quoting for journalism, research, or any context where exact wording is the evidence. Paraphrased transcripts can silently change what was said and make downstream quotes unreliable.

Fast on long content. Longer video posts and saved Live replays can run for an hour or more. The skill produces the summary and key points without waiting for the full transcript to finish assembling, so long videos return a clean summary and file pointer quickly while the full verbatim transcript is saved to the downloadable file.

Supported Instagram content

How it works

1. Paste any public Instagram link — a Reel, video post, saved Live replay, or Story with audio. The skill automatically detects the format and spoken language.
2. Tell it what you need if the default is not right — "with timestamps", "give me subtitles", or a specific question such as "what did they say about pricing?". By default, it returns plain text with a summary and key points; format keywords route to the matching output.
3. Get a transcript document — the summary and key points appear inline in your chat language, while the full verbatim transcript is saved to a downloadable file in the spoken language. Short Reels also include the full transcript directly in chat for quick scanning.

No setup, no account, and no API key. Paste the link and get text you can quote, search, translate, or reuse.

Output formats

Language handling

The transcript stays verbatim in the spoken language; the summary and key points appear in your chat language. The transcription engine handles English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, and most major business and content languages.

The source language is detected automatically from URL signals, the creator’s account handle, and audio cues, so you do not need to specify it. If detection misses, the skill retries automatically before asking you to confirm. Mentioning the language in your prompt, such as "this Spanish Reel", skips detection.

Mixed-language Reels, where a creator alternates between two languages, use the dominant language as the base while preserving both languages exactly as spoken in the verbatim transcript.

Accuracy

Accuracy is high with clear speech in supported languages. Heavy background music, overlapping voices, strong regional accents, and severely compressed audio can reduce accuracy — no transcription system can fully recover unintelligible audio. If a section comes back garbled, the source audio is usually difficult to hear.

The skill processes only the public video link. It does not log in to Instagram or access private content.

Out of scope

• Local video files — .mp4 exports, screen recordings, and files stored on your computer require a separate audio-to-text workflow.
• Active Live broadcasts — only finished and saved recordings work; ongoing Lives cannot be transcribed until the broadcast ends and a replay is available.
• Image-only posts and silent videos — no audio means there is nothing to transcribe.
• Private accounts — the link must be publicly accessible.
• Translation of the transcript itself — the transcript intentionally stays in the source language to preserve exact quotes. Ask for a translation as a follow-up after receiving the verbatim transcript.