Facebook Video Transcript API. Send a video link or ID.
Timed transcript of a video or reel. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes.
Facebook Video Transcript API at a glance
Returns the timed transcript of a public Facebook video or reel from its link or ID, from its captions or, when it has none, its audio. Captions are the uploaded track first, then Facebook's auto-generated one, and a video without either is transcribed with speech-to-text. Each segment has its start and end time, and text holds the whole transcript.
GET /v1/facebook/transcript
- 1 credit per request, up to 122 credits, $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000 requests
- 10 typed fields null when unknown
urlis all it needs, e.g.https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449- 100 credits free when you sign up, no card, so you can build before you spend
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$ npm install socialtapurl = https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449const params = new URLSearchParams({
url: "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/transcript?${params}`, {
headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);import os
import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/transcript",
params={"url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/"},
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"]},
)
body = res.json()
if not res.ok:
raise RuntimeError(f"{body['error']['code']}: {body['error']['message']}")
data, meta = body["data"], body["meta"]
print(data, meta["credits_charged"])require "json"
require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/transcript")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('url' => 'https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = ENV.fetch("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") { |http| http.request(req) }
body = JSON.parse(res.body)
raise "#{body["error"]["code"]}: #{body["error"]["message"]}" unless res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
pp body["data"]
puts body["meta"]["credits_charged"]<?php
$query = http_build_query([
'url' => 'https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/transcript?' . $query);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['x-api-key: ' . getenv('SOCIALTAP_API_KEY')],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
if (curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE) >= 400) {
throw new RuntimeException($body['error']['code'] . ': ' . $body['error']['message']);
}
print_r($body['data']);
echo $body['meta']['credits_charged'], PHP_EOL;package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"os"
)
func main() {
q := url.Values{}
q.Set("url", "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/")
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/transcript?"+q.Encode(), nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer res.Body.Close()
var body struct {
Data json.RawMessage `json:"data"`
Meta map[string]any `json:"meta"`
Error *struct {
Code string `json:"code"`
Message string `json:"message"`
} `json:"error"`
}
if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
if body.Error != nil {
log.Fatalf("%s: %s", body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message)
}
fmt.Println(string(body.Data), body.Meta["credits_charged"])
}curl -G 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/transcript' \
--data-urlencode 'url=https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/' \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"{
"data": {
"available_languages": [
"en-US"
],
"duration_ms": 59861,
"id": "1803909017420449",
"is_auto_generated": false,
"language": "en-US",
"platform": "facebook",
"platform_specific": {},
"segments": [
{
"end_ms": 4000,
"start_ms": 33,
"text": "But the standard that we should continuously aspire to exceed,"
},
{
"end_ms": 7166,
"start_ms": 4000,
"text": "which is why we are bringing that intensity, that discipline, that"
},
{
"end_ms": 11400,
"start_ms": 7166,
"text": "engineering ownership back to NASA, because great nations do not remain great"
}
],
"source": "captions",
"text": "But the standard that we should continuously aspire to exceed, which is why we are bringing that intensity, that discipline, that engineering ownership back to NASA, because great nations do not remain great by being caretakers of history, but by continuously making history. We h…",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/"
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
"platform": "facebook",
"source": "captions",
"is_cached": false,
"credits_charged": 1,
"latency_ms": 713,
"fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
"input": {
"kind": "video",
"id": "1803909017420449",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/"
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"client_request_id": null,
"warnings": []
}
}import { SocialTap } from "socialtap";
const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY
const res = await client.facebook.transcript.get({ url: "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/" });
console.log(res.data);
console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id);import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String query = "url=" + encode("https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/");
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/transcript?" + query))
.header("x-api-key", System.getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
.GET()
.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
// An error is {"error": {"code", "message", ...}}; success is {data, meta}, meta.credits_charged its price.
if (response.statusCode() >= 400) throw new RuntimeException(response.body());
System.out.println(response.body());
}
static String encode(String value) {
return URLEncoder.encode(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
}
}using System.Text.Json;
using var http = new HttpClient();
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"));
var query = string.Join("&",
"url=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/"));
var res = await http.GetAsync("https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/transcript?" + query);
using var body = JsonDocument.Parse(await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
if (!res.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var error = body.RootElement.GetProperty("error");
throw new Exception($"{error.GetProperty("code")}: {error.GetProperty("message")}");
}
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("data"));
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("meta").GetProperty("credits_charged"));// Cargo.toml: reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["blocking", "json"] }, serde_json = "1"
use std::env;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let res = reqwest::blocking::Client::new()
.get("https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/transcript")
.query(&[("url", "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1803909017420449/")])
.header("x-api-key", env::var("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")?)
.send()?;
let ok = res.status().is_success();
let body: serde_json::Value = res.json()?;
if !ok {
return Err(format!("{}: {}", body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"]).into());
}
println!("{} {}", body["data"], body["meta"]["credits_charged"]);
Ok(())
}200 OK · GET https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/transcriptLong arrays and strings are shortened here. Real responses are complete.Docs One schema on 9 platforms.
The response reference lists every field, its type and when it is null. See the full schema.
Null means unknown
A field Facebook doesn't show is null, never zero or an empty string, so a real zero always means zero.
What it accepts
Facebook video URL (reel, watch, page video, video.php, m./mbasic./web. hosts, fb.watch and share/v|r links) or a numeric video ID.
Write one parser
Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and 6 more platforms answer in these fields, so the code that reads one reads them all.
platformstring- Platform the media is hosted on.
idstring- Platform-native ID of the post (equals post.id); of an ad library entry, its library ID (equals ad.id).
urlstring- Canonical URL of the post (of an ad library entry, its library page).
languagestring- BCP-47 language of the returned transcript; null when unknown.
sourcestring- captions = platform caption track; asr = speech-to-text on the audio. New values may be added.
is_auto_generatedboolean- True when the track was machine-generated (platform auto-captions or ASR).
available_languagesstring[]- BCP-47 caption languages the platform offers for this post; [] if none or not listed.
duration_msinteger- Media duration in milliseconds; null when unknown.
Live data from 33 platforms.
What teams build with the Facebook Video Transcript API.
Summarize or search Facebook videos with AI
Repurpose reels into posts and articles
Build a searchable archive of a Page's videos
Good to know before you build.
- Uploaded captions win over auto-generated ones, and is_auto_generated tells you which you got.
- Speech-to-text runs only for a video with no captions, or with only auto-translated ones, up to a length limit: a longer video returns invalid_input.
- A broadcast that is still live returns invalid_input when it has no captions to read.
- Private, group-only, deleted and login-only videos return private_or_unavailable, because Facebook answers them all alike logged out.
- Post, photo and profile links return invalid_input: send the video's or reel's link.
From 1 credit per request. Failed requests are free.
Buy credits once and spend them on any endpoint, on any platform.
| Source | Price per successful request | Per 1,000 requests |
|---|---|---|
Captions captions | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 |
Speech-to-text asr | 2 credits + 2 per started minute of media up to 122 credits (60 started minutes of media) | $1.50–$3.93 + $1.50–$3.93 per started minute of media |
- Cache hits are free.
- Credits from packs and top-ups never expire.
- A monthly plan's credits are spent first, and what is left of them ends at each renewal.
- Prices exclude tax: sales tax is added at checkout where it applies.
- Outside the US, plans and packs are sold to businesses: checkout asks for your VAT, GST or other business tax ID.
Questions about the Facebook Video Transcript API.
More in the API reference.
Does it work on videos without captions?
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