TikTok Transcript Scraper

Get the TikTok transcript of any video or photo post as clean text for AI, plus all the data and ready-made metrics a marketer needs: timestamps, SRT/VTT subtitles, engagement rate, hook, views per day, TikTok's own categories and search keywords, author stats, and the text written on carousel photos.

You only pay for what you receive. Broken links, blocked requests and failed transcriptions are free.

Use cases

• Repurpose videos: turn TikTok videos into blog posts, newsletters, captions or scripts.
• Feed AI tools: give ChatGPT, Claude or your own agent the exact words of a video, not a guess from the title.
• Study competitors: read what the best videos in your niche say in the first seconds (hook) and how they ask for action.
• Subtitles: download ready SRT or VTT files for editing or translation.
• Research and monitoring: collect what creators say about a brand, a product or a topic, with views and engagement next to each quote.
• Carousels: get the text written on TikTok photo posts, which other tools skip.

What you get for each video

Group	Fields
Transcript	transcript (clean text), segments (text with start/end seconds), srt, vtt, language, transcriptSource
Video data	views, likes, comments, shares, saves, durationSec, createdAt, description, hashtags, mentions (comma-separated), musicTitle, musicAuthor, musicIsOriginal, musicIsCopyrighted
Author	authorFollowers, authorVerified, authorBio, authorAvatar, authorVideoCount, authorTotalLikes, authorIsSeller (TikTok Shop)
TikTok signals	tiktokCategories (TikTok's own topic labels), tiktokSearchKeywords (search terms TikTok suggests for the video), isAd, isAiGenerated, language, locationCreated, anchors (attached links)
Ready-made metrics	engagementRate, commentRate, shareRate, likeToCommentRatio, viewsPerFollower, viewsPerDay, postHour and postWeekday (in your timezone), hook (opening line), wordsPerMinute, talkRatio, callToAction
Photo posts (carousels)	isSlideshow, slideshowImages, slideshowHeadlines (the big text on each photo), slideshowText (cleaned), slideshowTextRaw (everything read)
Optional files	thumbnailFile (cover that does not expire), videoFile
Result	status and a plain-English error when something went wrong

Metrics are computed with fixed, documented formulas (no AI guessing), so they are consistent across runs. Every row has the same flat keys, so CSV and Excel exports stay clean: lists are joined into one cell, and only segments (the transcript with timestamps) stays a list for JSON users. In a spreadsheet, use srt or vtt instead.

How to transcribe a TikTok video

1. Paste one or more TikTok links in TikTok links. Lists and text copied from a CSV or JSON file work too: every TikTok link found is used and duplicates are removed. Short links from the app (vm.tiktok.com/...) and photo links (/photo/...) are fixed automatically.
2. Optionally set Your timezone (e.g. Europe/Rome) to get posting hour and weekday in your local time.
3. Run. Each video becomes one row in the dataset: export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your tools.

Example input

{
  "links": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7686893699099413773",
    "https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMexample/"
  ],
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "transcribeMusic": false,
  "downloadThumbnail": false
}

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price	When
Transcribed video	$0.025	video listened to and transcribed, first minute included; videos with no speech pay this too (no extra minutes)
Extra minute	$0.01	each minute after the first, rounded to the nearest (1:29 = 1 minute, 1:30 = 2)
Photo text	$0.005	per carousel photo read
Saved video file	$0.003	optional
Run start	$0.005 per GB of memory	once per run: $0.01 with the default 2 GB (Apify counts the start per GB)
Invalid link, unavailable video, blocked by TikTok, transcription failed, spending limit reached, saved thumbnail	free

Free Apify plan: demo mode, up to 5 runs a month with 3 videos each, up to 3 minutes long, enough to try it. Any paid Apify plan removes the limit.

Prices shown are for the Apify Free plan: transcribed videos and extra minutes get cheaper on paid Apify plans (down to $0.011 per video). Example: 100 one-minute videos cost about $2.50.

The run respects your spending limit: when it is reached, remaining videos are returned as limit_reached and not charged.

Example output

{
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@MS4wLjABAAAAU9BRVzC8oCaegVnia8IbqWhPb_-dbU7s00Y3wS1_Nx8g5RUaYvyXrpejgjdxTwd6/video/7686893699099413773",
  "videoId": "7686893699099413773",
  "author": "nasa",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-18T16:00:00Z",
  "durationSec": 92,
  "views": 186700,
  "likes": 12200,
  "comments": 412,
  "shares": 462,
  "saves": 975,
  "description": "Another big week in the sky and beyond at NASA 🚀   🔭 Roman gets a major mission-life boost 🏈 NASA takes to the skies over Pittsburgh 🌕 Artemis III booster stacking nears completion   Here’s what’s new in your NASA Minute!",
  "hashtags": "",
  "musicTitle": "original sound - NASA",
  "musicAuthor": "NASA",
  "musicIsOriginal": false,
  "musicIsCopyrighted": false,
  "authorFollowers": 1800000,
  "authorVerified": true,
  "isAd": false,
  "isAiGenerated": false,
  "locationCreated": "US",
  "tiktokCategories": "Science, Education, Culture & Education & Technology",
  "tiktokSearchKeywords": "nasa space, nasa rocket, artemis, sky",
  "language": "en",
  "transcript": "From the skies over Pittsburgh to the path back to the moon, NASA's mission kept moving forward this week.  Here's what's new in your NASA Minute. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is off to an excellent start. Th…",
  "segments": [
    {
      "start": 0.18,
      "end": 6.96,
      "text": "From the skies over Pittsburgh to the path back to the moon, NASA's mission kept moving forward this week.  Here's what's new in your NASA Minute."
    },
    {
      "start": 7.2,
      "end": 11.32,
      "text": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is off to an excellent start."
    }
  ],
  "transcriptSource": "ai",
  "engagementRate": 0.07,
  "commentRate": 0.00221,
  "shareRate": 0.00247,
  "likeToCommentRatio": 29.6,
  "viewsPerFollower": 0.104,
  "viewsPerDay": 26749,
  "postHour": 18,
  "postWeekday": "Friday",
  "hashtagCount": 0,
  "hook": "From the skies over Pittsburgh to the path back to the moon, NASA's mission kept moving forward this week.",
  "wordsPerMinute": 179,
  "talkRatio": 0.8,
  "callToAction": "",
  "status": "ok",
  "error": ""
}

Result statuses and errors

Status	Meaning	Charged	What to do
ok	transcript and data returned	yes
silent	no speech (music or silence); data and metrics returned	yes, as a transcribed video (first minute only)	turn on Transcribe songs too if you want lyrics
unavailable	the video was removed, is private or region-locked	no	check the link in a browser
invalid_link	not a TikTok video or photo link	no	paste the full video link
blocked	TikTok refused the request after 3 attempts from different addresses	no	run again later
transcription_failed	the speech-to-text service failed and TikTok had no captions	no	run the same link again
limit_reached	your spending limit was reached	no	raise the limit in the run options
free_plan_limit	free Apify plan: demo limit reached (runs, videos or video length)	no	subscribe to any paid Apify plan

Use with AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor)

AI assistants can run this scraper through the Apify MCP server, the bridge that lets them use Apify Store tools. Add it to your assistant with this address:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=apinator/tiktok-transcript-scraper

Then paste a prompt like this one:

Use the TikTok Transcript Scraper (apinator/tiktok-transcript-scraper) on these links:
<your TikTok links>
For each video give me the transcript, the hook, views and engagement rate,
then summarize the 3 main ideas and list the calls to action.

The output is plain JSON with stable field names, so agents can read it without extra parsing.

Agents can also pay per run on their own with x402 or Skyfire, without an Apify account.

Use with n8n, Make and Zapier

• n8n: use the Apify node, choose Run an Actor and get dataset, pick apinator/tiktok-transcript-scraper and pass the links as JSON input.
• Make and Zapier: use the Apify app, action Run an Actor, then Get dataset items.
• API: start a run with a POST request to the Actor endpoint and read the dataset; every Apify client (Python, JavaScript) works the same way.

A typical flow: a new link in a Google Sheet → run the scraper → write transcript and metrics back to the sheet.

FAQ

How accurate is the transcript?

Speech is transcribed by AI, with timestamps for each sentence. If the AI step fails and TikTok has its own captions, those are used instead: transcriptSource tells you which one you got (ai or tiktok_captions).

What about songs?

Videos with only a song are marked silent by default: the song title and artist are in musicTitle and musicAuthor. Turn on Transcribe songs too to get the lyrics.

What if there is music behind the speech?

Background music is ignored: in our tests the speaker was transcribed correctly even with a sung song at the same volume.

Which languages work?

Speech is detected automatically in most languages; you can force one with Force language. Text on photos is read best in Latin-script languages and Chinese.

How is photo text cleaned?

Design elements (like buttons, counters and usernames in screenshots) are filtered out of slideshowText with fixed rules. If you need everything, use slideshowTextRaw.

Why do thumbnail links stop working?

thumbnail and slideshowImages are TikTok links that stop working after hours or days. Turn on Save thumbnail for a permanent copy. Saved files are kept for Apify's default storage period.

How many videos can I run?

One or thousands: links are processed in parallel. Set a spending limit if you want a hard cap.

Is it legal to scrape TikTok?

This scraper reads only public videos, the same ones anyone can watch without logging in. It does not collect private data such as emails or phone numbers. Transcripts may contain personal data spoken in the video: if you store or publish them, follow the privacy rules that apply to you (for example GDPR in the EU). When in doubt, ask a lawyer.

This is an unofficial tool: it is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by TikTok or ByteDance. To keep the scraper reliable, each run sends us anonymous counts only (videos processed, videos blocked); never your input, links or results.

Whole profiles

To get every video of a creator, with a profile report (engagement, views per follower, best time to post) and a daily "only new videos" feed, use TikTok Profile Scraper.

Support and feedback

Something missing or not working? Open an issue on the Issues tab: we read every one. Feature requests are welcome too.