# Instagram Transcript Scraper — Reels, Posts & IGTV to Text

An ai tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/memo23/instagram-transcript-scraper

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `startUrls` (array): Instagram video URLs or creators
- `handles` (array): Creator handles
- `videoUrls` (array): Direct video URLs
- `maxReelsPerHandle` (integer): Max reels per creator (e.g. 12)
- `datasetId` (string): Dataset ID (chain a scraper run)
- `datasetItems` (array): Dataset items (paste rows)

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=Instagram%20Transcript%20Scraper%20%E2%80%94%20Reels%2C%20Posts%20%26%20IGTV%20to%20Text with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "Instagram Transcript Scraper — Reels, Posts & IGTV to Text"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md