TikTok Transcript Scraper

Get the transcript of TikTok videos as clean data: plain text ready for ChatGPT, Claude or your content pipeline, timestamped segments, and SRT subtitles on request. Choose the spoken language or one of the translations TikTok provides. Each row also carries the author, description, date, duration and views. Videos without captions are free. No login, no cookies.

• Accurate text from TikTok itself: the captions TikTok generates from the video's audio, plus the creator's own captions when there are any.
• Translations included: many videos come with TikTok's translations (often English); ask for en, es, fr... and get the spoken language when that one is missing.
• AI-ready: one text field per video, wordCount, segments with start times, srt for subtitles.
• Fast: a few seconds per batch of videos.
• $3 per 1,000 transcripts. You only pay for transcripts delivered.

Sample output

Real rows from one run, transcripts requested in English:

Author	Video	Transcript language	Words
@theeconomist	Is university worth the time and money?	English (creator captions)	262
@scientificamerican	2016? Nah. 2026 is the new 1926	English	626
@bettoauge	Roteiro para vídeo curto de receitas!	English, translated from Portuguese	261
@nikitadumptruck	economics is shopping and boys	English	256
@scout2015	Scramble up ur name & I'll try to guess it	no speech: free error row	—

Quick start

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@theeconomist/video/7278364993064537377",
    "https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMxxxxxxx/"
  ],
  "language": "en"
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
urls	array	required	TikTok video URLs, vm.tiktok.com short links or video IDs.
language	string	empty	Transcript language code (en, es, fr, pt...). Empty = the spoken language.
languageFallback	boolean	true	No captions in your language: return the spoken-language transcript instead of an error.
includeTimestamps	boolean	true	Add segments: {start, duration, text} in seconds.
includeSrt	boolean	false	Add the transcript as SRT subtitles.

Output

One row per video:

{
  "videoId": "7191572989635267846",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@bettoauge/video/7191572989635267846",
  "authorUsername": "bettoauge",
  "authorName": "Betto Auge",
  "description": "Roteiro para vídeo curto de receitas!  #aprendanotiktok  #EuTeEnsino  #tutorial  #videodereceita ",
  "createdAt": "2023-01-22T20:16:12+00:00",
  "durationSeconds": 80,
  "viewCount": 239700,
  "likeCount": 15800,
  "commentCount": 316,
  "shareCount": 1939,
  "language": "en",
  "isTranslation": true,
  "isAutoGenerated": true,
  "requestedLanguage": "en",
  "usedFallbackLanguage": false,
  "spokenLanguage": "pt",
  "availableLanguages": [
    "en",
    "pt"
  ],
  "text": "Now I'm going to teach you a basic ham to use in your food videos the first secret of a basic ham you need to start your video with an appetizing impa...",
  "wordCount": 261,
  "segments": [
    {
      "start": 0.0,
      "duration": 4.459,
      "text": "Now I'm going to teach you a basic ham to use in your food videos the first"
    },
    {
      "start": 4.459,
      "duration": 4.694,
      "text": "secret of a basic ham you need to start your video with an appetizing impactful"
    }
  ],
  "srt": null,
  "source": "https://www.tiktok.com/@bettoauge/video/7191572989635267846",
  "error": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T00:35:00+00:00"
}

spokenLanguage is the language of the audio; isTranslation is true when the transcript is TikTok's translation of it; isAutoGenerated is false for captions the creator wrote. Videos without captions (no speech, music only, or captions turned off by the creator), removed or private videos get a row with error and are not charged.

Pricing

$3 per 1,000 transcripts (one transcript event per video with a transcript), plus a tiny actor-start fee. Rows with an error are free. Store discounts apply on higher Apify plans.

Use cases

• Content research: hooks, scripts and talking points of trending videos, searchable as text
• AI pipelines: summarize, classify or translate TikTok content with an LLM
• Brand and trend monitoring: what creators actually say about a product
• Repurposing and accessibility: subtitles and text versions of videos

Integrations

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("cycha/tiktok-transcript-scraper").call(run_input={
    "urls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@theeconomist/video/7278364993064537377"],
    "language": "en",
})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row["authorUsername"], row["wordCount"], row["text"])

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FAQ

Can I give a profile or a hashtag? Not in this actor: TikTok does not show logged-out visitors a profile's list of videos. Collect video URLs first (for example with your own export), then paste them here.

Why does a video have no transcript? TikTok only has captions for videos with speech it could recognize, and creators can turn captions off. Those rows are free.

Instagram Reels? Not offered: Instagram no longer shows video data to logged-out visitors, and we don't use logged-in accounts.

Is it legal? The actor reads publicly available captions. You are responsible for how you use them and for respecting copyright and TikTok's terms.

Feedback

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