Stop Copy-Pasting Instagram Captions — They're Wrong Anyway

You're manually transcribing Instagram reels in 2026? Bold move. Here's the thing — Instagram's auto-captions are garbage. They drop words, mangle names, and miss context. If you're copy-pasting those into your content pipeline, you're building on a broken foundation. And if you're manually transcribing? You're burning hours on something a machine handles in 30 seconds. What a real transcription pipeline needs Most people get this wrong. They grab captions from the UI, paste them into a doc, and call it a day. That's not a pipeline — that's a chore. Here's what you actually need: 99.4% accuracy — not Instagram's auto-generated guesses Word-level timestamps — precise timing for every single word (subtitles, video editing, content analysis) Bulk extraction — feed it a channel username, get back every transcript. Not one URL at a time Sound familiar? I've been there. Tried Whisper locally, tried paid APIs, tried sketchy browser extensions. All half-baked. The 6-line solution So we stopped