Video Transcript & Translation: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook

Paste video links, get the transcript, timestamped segments, SRT / VTT subtitles and an optional translation — for YouTube videos and Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook videos and Reels, X (Twitter), Vimeo and 1,000+ other sites.

What makes it different

1. Translation into Ukrainian and 20 other languages in the same run. You get the translated transcript and ready-to-use SRT/VTT subtitles for it, not only for the original. Of the transcript Actors we found in the Apify Store (October 2026), only one other offers translation, at $0.045 / $0.013 per video. Here it costs from $0.007 per minute. Languages: English, Ukrainian, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Czech, Romanian, Swedish, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean.
2. All platforms in one Actor. One input list takes YouTube videos and Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook videos and Reels, X (Twitter), Vimeo and 1,000+ other sites. Most alternatives cover one platform per Actor.
3. Works when there are no captions. Captions are used first: fast, any length, one flat price. Without them the speech is recognised with Whisper large-v3, so TikToks, Reels and YouTube videos without captions still get a transcript. Many YouTube transcript tools return nothing in that case.
4. Failed videos are free. Private, deleted, blocked or too-long videos get an error field and are not charged. You pay only for the transcripts you receive.
5. No API key of your own. You don't need an OpenAI or any other account: you pay per video through Apify.

Also included: timestamped segments, SRT and VTT subtitle files with download links, and the video's title, author, upload date, duration and views next to the text. Speech recognition covers 99 spoken languages, including Ukrainian. Recognition in Ukrainian is common; what is rare is translation into Ukrainian and the other languages.

Input

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLgYJh6OFbY",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7698805564884733198"
  ],
  "translateTo": "es",
  "useCaptions": true,
  "maxDurationMinutes": 60
}

Field	Meaning
videoUrls	Links to single videos. Profile, playlist and search pages are not supported.
translateTo	Optional language code (en, es, de, uk…) to also translate the transcript and subtitles
language	Spoken language code, or empty to detect it automatically
useCaptions	Use the video's captions when available (default). Off: always recognise the speech with Whisper
maxDurationMinutes	Videos without captions longer than this are skipped (free). Captions work for any length
quality	accurate (Whisper large-v3, default) or fast (large-v3-turbo) — same price
subtitles	Save SRT and VTT files (free)
includeSegments	Include timestamped segments, not only the full text

Output

{
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7698805564884733198",
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "title": "…",
  "author": "nasa",
  "uploadDate": "20261020",
  "durationSeconds": 45,
  "language": "en",
  "transcriptSource": "speech-recognition",
  "text": "…",
  "segments": [{ "start": 0.0, "end": 3.2, "text": "…" }],
  "srtUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/0001-7698805564884733198.srt?signature=...",
  "vttUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/0001-7698805564884733198.vtt?signature=...",
  "translation": { "language": "es", "text": "…", "segments": [], "srtUrl": "…", "vttUrl": "…" }
}

transcriptSource is uploaded-captions, automatic-captions or speech-recognition.

Pricing

You pay per result. On any paid Apify plan you get the lower price.

Event	Free plan	Paid plans	What counts
video	$15 / 1,000	$10 / 1,000 videos	one transcript, from captions (any length) or up to 3 minutes of recognised speech
audio-minute	$5 / 1,000	$4 / 1,000 minutes	speech recognition only (TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X…): each started minute after the first 3
youtube-audio-minute	$12 / 1,000	$10 / 1,000 minutes	YouTube videos without captions: each started minute, charged instead of video
translated-minute	$10 / 1,000	$7 / 1,000 minutes	only with translateTo: each started minute of translated video (text and subtitles)

Examples on a paid plan:

• a YouTube video with captions: $0.01, whatever its length;
• a 1-minute TikTok: $0.01;
• the same TikTok translated into Ukrainian: $0.017;
• a 10-minute YouTube video without captions: $0.10.

Each run also carries Apify's standard start fee of $0.05 per 1,000 runs. Subtitles are free. If a run reaches your maximum charge, the remaining videos are skipped.

Privacy

Audio is sent to Groq's speech-to-text API (Whisper) only when a video has no captions; transcripts are sent to Groq's language model API only when you ask for a translation. See Groq's privacy policy. Results stay in your own Apify run storage. Transcribe only videos you are allowed to use.

Related Actors

• Audio & Video Transcriber — your own audio and video files to text and subtitles
• Text to Speech · Video Frame Extractor

Use with AI agents and code

• MCP (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, any MCP client): add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=ai_admin/social-video-transcript as an MCP server — the agent gets one tool with this Actor's input schema and pays per use through your Apify account.
• One HTTP call that returns the results:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/ai_admin~social-video-transcript/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"videoUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7698805564884733198"], "translateTo": "es"}'

Limits

• Private videos, videos that need a login and live streams are not supported.
• Instagram often blocks downloads from servers; such Reels get an error and are free.
• Speaker labels (diarization) are not included.