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TikTok & YouTube Transcript Scraper

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Transcribe TikTok and YouTube videos and Shorts. Uses captions when present, on-device speech recognition when not, plus on-screen text OCR and a hook field. No login. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 video transcripts

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Developer

Mayowa Ogedengbe

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Monthly active users

3 days ago

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Videos

Social media

You can access the TikTok & YouTube Transcript Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "startUrls": [
12        {
13            "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
14        },
15        {
16            "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@cnn/video/7688426985072119054"
17        }
18    ],
19    "maxVideos": 100,
20    "language": "en"
21};
22
23// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
24const run = await client.actor("headply/tiktok-youtube-transcript-scraper").call(input);
25
26// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
27console.log('Results from dataset');
28console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
29const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
30items.forEach((item) => {
31    console.dir(item);
32});
33
34// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

TikTok & YouTube Transcript Scraper - Video to Text API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use TikTok & YouTube Transcript Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

TikTok & YouTube Transcript Scraper API in Python

TikTok & YouTube Transcript Scraper API through CLI

TikTok & YouTube Transcript Scraper OpenAPI definition

TikTok & YouTube Transcript Scraper API

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YouTube Shorts Transcript Scraper - Bulk Shorts to Text

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YouTube, TikTok & Reels Transcript — Video to Text + Hooks

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TikTok Transcript Scraper | AI Speech-to-Text

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Turn any TikTok video into text. Real AI speech recognition (not caption scraping) — works on videos with no captions, in 8 languages including English & Chinese. Full text + timestamped sentences as clean JSON.