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    "title": "Instagram Transcript Scraper – Reels & Video to Text, AI",
    "description": "Instagram transcript API: turn Instagram Reels, videos and audio into text. Paste reel links or @usernames and get the spoken transcript, opening hook, timestamps or SRT plus plays, likes and caption. Whisper AI transcription, no login. $0.006 per reel, music-only and failed reels are free.",
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            "description": "Mix freely, one per line: reel links (instagram.com/reel/…, /p/…), share links (instagram.com/share/…), profile links (instagram.com/natgeo or …/natgeo/reels/) or @usernames. For a profile, its latest public reels are transcribed.",
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            "title": "Skip pinned reels",
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            "description": "Also read the text shown in the video (captions, titles, text stickers) with an AI vision model. Works on music-only reels too. Slower; billed as an extra 'on-screen-text' event only for reels where text was found.",
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          },
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            "title": "Include raw segments",
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          },
          "chunkWords": {
            "title": "RAG chunk size (words)",
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            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Set e.g. 300 to add a 'chunks' array: transcript split into ~N-word blocks with start/end timestamps. 0 = off.",
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            "description": "How many reels to process in parallel.",
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