TikTok Transcript Scraper — TikTok Video to Text
Pricing
from $2.50 / 1,000 videos
Turn TikTok videos into text: transcript with timestamps, on-screen captions and the first-3-second hook. Give it links or a whole profile — no login, no cookies. Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts links work in the same run. Run via API, schedule, or feed an AI workflow.
You can access the TikTok Transcript Scraper — TikTok Video to Text programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "videoUrls": [12 "https://www.tiktok.com/@duolingo/video/7683994892506270989"13 ],14 "compareWithAuthor": true,15 "profiles": [16 "@duolingo"17 ],18 "resultsLimitPerProfile": 10,19 "transcriptionMode": "captions-first",20 "includeOnScreenText": false,21 "quality": "fast",22 "language": "auto",23 "maximumVideoDurationSeconds": 300,24 "ocrFps": "1.5",25 "includeTranscriptSegments": true26};27
28// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish29const run = await client.actor("lergassy/tiktok-transcript-scraper").call(input);30
31// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)32console.log('Results from dataset');33console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);34const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();35items.forEach((item) => {36 console.dir(item);37});38
39// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use TikTok Transcript Scraper — TikTok Video to Text API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: