# TikTok Bulk Video Downloader (No Watermark) & Subtitles (`automation_studio/tiktok-video-downloader-subtitles`) Actor

High-speed bulk TikTok video downloader. Extracts clean unwatermarked MP4 (HD), MP3 audio tracks, and native closed-caption subtitles in SRT, VTT & text formats.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation_studio/tiktok-video-downloader-subtitles.md
- **Developed by:** [Automation Studio](https://apify.com/automation_studio) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 downloaded video & subtitles

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 🎬 TikTok Bulk Video Downloader (No-Watermark) & Subtitle Extractor

> **High-speed bulk TikTok video downloader with zero watermark, clean MP3 audio tracks, and native closed-caption subtitle extraction (SRT, VTT, & plain text).** Built for social media agencies, video editors, and content repurposers scaling YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels pipelines.

***

### ⚡ Why Use This Downloader?

Repurposing viral short-form content is the highest-ROI strategy for growing YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and podcasts. However, content creators and agencies face two major bottlenecks:

1. **Watermarks ruin algorithmic distribution**: Platforms like Instagram and YouTube actively down-rank videos containing competitor watermarks.
2. **Expensive and slow AI transcription**: Running Whisper or third-party speech-to-text models on hundreds of videos costs money, burns compute, and takes hours.

#### The Native Subtitle Advantage

**TikTok natively generates closed captions on almost every video and embeds the transcript directly inside the video stream metadata.**
This scraper extracts those native subtitles instantly with millisecond-precision timestamps:

- **Zero Whisper / AI transcription latency**: Captions are extracted in sub-2 seconds directly from ByteDance CDNs.
- **100% Exact Timestamps**: Perfectly synchronized `.srt` cues ready to drop into Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, or Final Cut Pro.
- **Clean Plain-Text Transcripts**: Ideal for feeding into LLMs to generate viral hooks, summaries, and newsletter posts.

***

### 🌟 Key Features

| Feature | Description |
| :--- | :--- |
| **🎥 No-Watermark MP4 (HD)** | Clean, high-definition direct ByteDance CDN video streams without any watermark logos. |
| **🎵 MP3 Audio Track** | Isolated high-quality audio stream for sound design, podcast snippets, or background music. |
| **📝 Subtitles in 3 Formats** | Generates standard SubRip (`.srt`) cues, raw WebVTT (`.vtt`), and clean continuous plain text (`subtitles_text`). |
| **⏱️ Timestamps Array** | Structured JSON segments (`start`, `end`, `duration`, `text`) for programmatic video slicing. |
| **📊 Engagement Metrics** | Real-time counts for likes (`digg_count`), comments, shares, views (`play_count`), and saves (`collect_count`). |
| **👤 Creator Profiles** | Author username, nickname, verified status, and high-resolution avatar URL. |
| **🚀 Multi-Source Ingestion** | Ingest direct video links, scrape all recent videos from a creator handle, or search by niche keywords. |
| **⚡ Blazing Fast Concurrency** | Processes 100–500 videos concurrently in parallel batches with minimal memory footprint (512MB RAM). |

***

### 📥 Input Options

#### 1. Direct Video URLs

Paste a list of TikTok video links (desktop, mobile, or shortlinks like `vm.tiktok.com`):

```json
{
  "direct_urls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@callmemax_01/video/7628736643054226706",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@violetlouvv/video/7634735730404773140"
  ],
  "download_subtitles": true,
  "max_videos": 10
}
```

#### 2. Creator Profile Scraping

Download recent videos and transcripts from specific creator handles:

```json
{
  "profiles": [
    "@garyvee",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@hubermanlab"
  ],
  "max_videos": 25
}
```

#### 3. Niche Keyword Discovery

Discover and download viral videos in any industry or niche:

```json
{
  "search_query": "ecommerce marketing tips",
  "max_videos": 50
}
```

***

### 📤 Output Data Format

Every scraped item returns a rich record structured as follows:

```json
{
  "video_id": "7628736643054226706",
  "tiktok_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@callmemax_01/video/7628736643054226706",
  "title": "I know what am doing 😂😂 . . #viral",
  "author_username": "callmemax_01",
  "author_nickname": "YOUNG MAX👑",
  "author_avatar": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/...",
  "author_verified": false,
  "video_url_no_watermark": "https://v16m.tiktokcdn-us.com/video/tos/...",
  "video_url_hd": "https://v16-notes.tiktokcdn-us.com/video/tos/...",
  "audio_url": "https://v16-ies-music.tiktokcdn-us.com/audio/tos/...",
  "cover_url": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/...",
  "duration": 28,
  "subtitles_available": true,
  "subtitles_language": "en",
  "subtitles_text": "Welcome back to the channel everybody. Today we are going to show you three viral products.",
  "subtitles_srt": "1\n00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:03,200\nWelcome back to the channel everybody.\n\n2\n00:00:03,350 --> 00:00:06,800\nToday we are going to show you three viral products.",
  "subtitles_segments": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "start": 0.5,
      "end": 3.2,
      "duration": 2.7,
      "text": "Welcome back to the channel everybody."
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "start": 3.35,
      "end": 6.8,
      "duration": 3.45,
      "text": "Today we are going to show you three viral products."
    }
  ],
  "digg_count": 17400,
  "comment_count": 108,
  "share_count": 104,
  "play_count": 163400,
  "collect_count": 854,
  "music_title": "He Answers Prayers",
  "music_author": "Celebrity DJ StarKeed",
  "created_at": "2026-04-14T17:54:32Z",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-10T14:50:00Z"
}
```

***

### 🛠️ Integration Examples

#### Python (`apify-client`)

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run_input = {
    "direct_urls": [
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@callmemax_01/video/7628736643054226706"
    ],
    "download_subtitles": True,
    "max_videos": 10
}

run = client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/tiktok-video-downloader-subtitles").call(run_input=run_input)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"🎬 {item['title']}")
    print(f"📹 MP4: {item['video_url_no_watermark']}")
    print(f"📝 Subtitles: {item['subtitles_text'][:100]}...\n")
```

#### Node.js (`apify-client`)

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('YOUR_USERNAME/tiktok-video-downloader-subtitles').call({
  direct_urls: ['https://www.tiktok.com/@callmemax_01/video/7628736643054226706'],
  download_subtitles: true,
  max_videos: 10,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
  console.log(`Video: ${item.title}`);
  console.log(`Unwatermarked MP4: ${item.video_url_no_watermark}`);
});
```

***

### 🛡️ Enterprise Scalability & Reliability

- **Zero Ban Rate**: Utilizes automated TLS browser impersonation (`chrome124`) and residential/datacenter proxy pool rotation.
- **Low Resource Usage**: Extremely lightweight asynchronous pipeline requiring only 512MB RAM.
- **Automatic Fallbacks**: Multi-tier extraction guarantees unwatermarked video and audio streams even when target creators update privacy settings.

# Actor input Schema

## `direct_urls` (type: `array`):

List of direct TikTok video URLs (web links or short links) to download and extract subtitles from.

## `profiles` (type: `array`):

TikTok usernames or profile links (e.g. '@garyvee' or 'https://www.tiktok.com/@nike') to download recent videos from.

## `search_query` (type: `string`):

Search keyword or topic (e.g. 'apparel', 'clothing brand', 'ecommerce') to discover and download top viral videos.

## `max_videos` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of videos to download and process. Default is set to 3 for instant trial verification.

## `download_subtitles` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, fetches and parses TikTok closed-caption subtitles into SRT, VTT, clean plain text, and timestamped segments.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Select Apify Proxy to ensure uninterrupted high-speed downloads across global ByteDance CDNs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "direct_urls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@callmemax_01/video/7628736643054226706"
  ],
  "profiles": [],
  "search_query": "clothing brand",
  "max_videos": 3,
  "download_subtitles": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing verified TikTok video download URLs, audio tracks, engagement stats, and subtitle transcripts.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "direct_urls": [
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@callmemax_01/video/7628736643054226706"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("automation_studio/tiktok-video-downloader-subtitles").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "direct_urls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@callmemax_01/video/7628736643054226706"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("automation_studio/tiktok-video-downloader-subtitles").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "direct_urls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@callmemax_01/video/7628736643054226706"
  ]
}' |
apify call automation_studio/tiktok-video-downloader-subtitles --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,automation_studio/tiktok-video-downloader-subtitles"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/3MC6SOazQdXLFqTXa/builds/rqXJLNN6qnQ2ChaOT/openapi.json