TikTok AI Transcript Extractor

Extract caption transcripts and useful metadata from public TikTok video URLs. Each successful result contains non-empty transcript text from a caption track exposed by TikTok—never a placeholder URL/title row.

What it returns

• Caption transcript text and language
• TikTok video ID, creator username, description, and duration
• Public caption-track and playable-media URLs discovered from the video page
• JSON, CSV, Excel, API, webhook, and MCP-compatible dataset output

Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@creator/video/1234567890123456789" }
  ],
  "preferredLanguage": "en",
  "maxItems": 1
}

startUrls accepts direct public tiktok.com/@creator/video/{id} links and TikTok's vm.tiktok.com or vt.tiktok.com short links. Profiles, search pages, and non-TikTok URLs are rejected before fetching. preferredLanguage selects a matching caption track when available; otherwise the first available track is used.

Output

{
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@creator/video/1234567890123456789",
  "videoId": "1234567890123456789",
  "authorUsername": "creator",
  "description": "Video description",
  "durationSeconds": 28,
  "language": "en",
  "transcript": "The complete caption transcript appears here.",
  "captionUrl": "https://...",
  "videoUrl": "https://...",
  "captionSource": "auto"
}

Field	Meaning
url	Canonical public TikTok video URL after redirects
videoId	TikTok video identifier
authorUsername	Public creator username, when exposed
description	Video post description, when exposed
durationSeconds	Video duration, when exposed
language	Selected caption-track language
transcript	Non-empty normalized caption text
captionUrl	Source caption-track URL
videoUrl	Discovered playable-media URL
captionSource	TikTok's caption source label, when exposed

A public video must expose a caption track. If the video has no captions, is private, removed, or region restricted, the Actor reports a clear error and does not charge or save a misleading transcript item. It does not generate a speech-to-text transcript when TikTok provides no captions.

Ready-to-run examples

• TikTok transcript and metadata dataset
• TikTok social listening caption archive
• TikTok content repurposing transcripts
• TikTok captions and subtitles export
• TikTok news video transcript scraper
• TikTok single video transcript extractor

API usage

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('fetch_cat/best-tiktok-ai-transcript-extractor').call({
  startUrls: [{ url: 'https://www.tiktok.com/@creator/video/1234567890123456789' }],
  preferredLanguage: 'en',
  maxItems: 1,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0].transcript);

MCP endpoint: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fetch_cat/best-tiktok-ai-transcript-extractor

Pricing

The Actor charges the configured start event once per run and one result event only for each transcript row actually saved. Use maxItems to bound a run.

Responsible use and limits

Process only public videos you are allowed to use. The Actor does not bypass login walls, private-video controls, or geographic restrictions. TikTok can change its public page and caption formats; include the run ID and one reproducible public video URL in support reports.