📝 TikTok Transcript Scraper — Get the Transcript of Any TikTok Video as Text

This TikTok transcript scraper turns the subtitles of public videos on TikTok into text you can search, analyse and reuse. Give it video URLs or share links and it returns each video's TikTok transcript as plain text and as timed segments, with the language, whether the captions were auto-generated or written by the creator, the other languages TikTok offers, and the video's author, publish date, duration and view, like, comment and share counts. People use it to scrape TikTok subtitles for content research, to repurpose videos into blog posts and captions, to monitor what creators and brands say, and to feed spoken content into AI pipelines.

Paste video links, pick a language, and get one dataset item per video, ready to export to JSON, CSV or Excel. No TikTok account, cookies, API key or proxy is needed.

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🚀 Key Features

• 🔎 Any video link — full video URLs, vm.tiktok.com and vt.tiktok.com share links and older m.tiktok.com/v/… links
• 🧾 Transcript as text and segments — the full transcript in one field, plus every caption line with its start and end time in seconds
• 🌍 Languages — the language spoken in the video by default, a language of your choice (for example English translations of Spanish videos), or every track TikTok has
• 🏷️ Caption source — whether the transcript was generated automatically, written by the creator, or machine-translated
• 📈 Video details on every item — author, caption, hashtags, publish time, duration, views, likes, comments, shares and saves
• 📑 One item per video — each URL gives at most one result, so the count you pay for is the number of videos with a transcript
• 🧹 No charge for videos without subtitles — music-only videos, photo posts, removed and private videos are listed in the run's key-value store instead of the dataset
• 🛡️ No login and no proxy — reads only what TikTok shows logged-out visitors
• 📤 Multiple export formats — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML via the Apify dataset
• 🔁 Schedulable runs — run it on a schedule over the videos you track

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👥 Who Is This Actor For?

• 📣 Marketers and social media teams — reading what competitors and creators actually say in their videos, not just their captions
• ✍️ Content creators and agencies — turning TikTok videos into blog posts, newsletters, subtitles and scripts
• 🧠 Researchers and analysts — building datasets of spoken TikTok content in several languages
• 🔍 Brand and compliance monitoring — checking videos that mention a brand or product for what was said
• 🤖 AI builders — feeding video transcripts into summarisation, search, classification or RAG pipelines

💡 Common Use Cases

• Get the transcript of a TikTok video as text
• Scrape TikTok subtitles for a list of videos into a spreadsheet
• Download TikTok captions with timestamps to reuse as subtitles
• Translate TikTok videos to English using TikTok's own translated captions
• Summarise a batch of TikTok videos with an LLM from their transcripts
• Search what creators said about a product across many videos

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🔗 Supported URL Types

URL Type	Example
Video URL	https://www.tiktok.com/@plantyou/video/7463223840278187269
Share link (vm)	https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM…/
Share link (vt)	https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS…/
Old mobile link	https://m.tiktok.com/v/7484309187241987350.html

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
startUrls	Array	TikTok videos to get transcripts for: video URLs or share links. One transcript per video.	Required
language	String	Which subtitle track to return. original returns the language spoken in the video. A language code such as en or es returns that language when TikTok has it (often a machine translation) and falls back to the original otherwise. all returns the original in the main fields plus every track in tracks.	original
includeVtt	Boolean	Also return the raw WebVTT subtitle file in the vtt field.	false
includeVideosWithoutTranscript	Boolean	Also save a result for videos that have no subtitles, with transcript set to null and a note saying why. These are charged like any other result. When off, such videos are only listed in the VIDEOS_WITHOUT_TRANSCRIPT record of the key-value store, free of charge.	false
proxyConfiguration	Object	Proxy settings. TikTok serves video pages without a proxy, so none is used by default. If videos come back blocked, switch to Apify datacenter proxies.	{ "useApifyProxy": false }

Because each URL is one video, there is no maxItems limit: a run returns at most one item per start URL.

Example Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ethan_steele_/video/7484309187241987350" },
    { "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ale.vegana/video/7592801339265060103" }
  ],
  "language": "original"
}

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📤 Output

Each dataset item is one video:

Field	Type	Description
videoId	String	The video's id
url	String	Link to the video
inputUrl	String	The URL or share link you gave
description	String	The video's caption
hashtags	Array	Hashtags in the caption, without #
authorUsername	String	The creator's username
authorNickname	String	The creator's display name
authorId	String	The creator's user id
publishedAt	String	Publish time (ISO 8601, UTC)
durationSeconds	Number	Video length in seconds
playCount	Number	Views
likeCount	Number	Likes
commentCount	Number	Comments
shareCount	Number	Shares
saveCount	Number	Saves (bookmarks)
hasTranscript	Boolean	Whether the item carries a transcript
transcript	String	The transcript as plain text, caption lines joined
transcriptSegments	Array	Caption lines as { start, end, text }, times in seconds
language	String	Language of the returned transcript, e.g. en
languageTag	String	TikTok's language tag, e.g. eng-US
isAutoGenerated	Boolean	true for automatic captions, false for captions written by the creator
isTranslation	Boolean	true when the transcript is a machine translation of the spoken language
originalLanguage	String	The language spoken in the video, as TikTok detected it
availableLanguages	Array	Every subtitle language TikTok offers for the video
subtitleUrl	String	Link to TikTok's subtitle file. It expires about 48 hours after the run
subtitleUrlExpiresAt	String	When subtitleUrl stops working (ISO 8601, UTC)
vtt	String	The raw WebVTT file, only with includeVtt
tracks	Array	With language: "all": every track, each with its own language, isAutoGenerated, isTranslation, transcript, transcriptSegments and subtitleUrl
note	String	Set when the requested language was not available, or the video has no subtitles; otherwise null
scrapedAt	String	When the item was scraped (ISO 8601, UTC)

Videos that return no transcript (no subtitles, photo posts, removed, private or unavailable videos, and links that do not lead to a video) are listed with the reason in the VIDEOS_WITHOUT_TRANSCRIPT record of the run's key-value store, and counted in the run's status message.

Example Output

A real item from a run, with the subtitle URL shortened and the segment list cut to three of its seventeen lines:

{
  "videoId": "7463223840278187269",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@plantyou/video/7463223840278187269",
  "inputUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@plantyou/video/7463223840278187269",
  "description": "Chipotle Freezer Burritos #burritos #mealprep #foodprep #easyrecipe #plantbased ",
  "hashtags": ["burritos", "mealprep", "foodprep", "easyrecipe", "plantbased"],
  "authorUsername": "plantyou",
  "authorNickname": "Carleigh Bodrug - plantyou",
  "authorId": "6623907532170182661",
  "publishedAt": "2025-01-23T21:20:17.000Z",
  "durationSeconds": 37,
  "playCount": 3200000,
  "likeCount": 106800,
  "commentCount": 569,
  "shareCount": 16100,
  "saveCount": 95511,
  "hasTranscript": true,
  "transcript": "Here's how you're gonna fill your freezer with high protein veggie pack Chipotle black bean burritos in under an hour. This is part of my series of low effort recipes to help you eat more plants. First, add diced potatoes, bell peppers, onions and tomatoes to a sheet pan with a little bit of oil, cumin, paprika and salt. Bake that for about 45 minutes. […] Assemble and make sure to press follow if you want to eat healthier with me in 2025.",
  "transcriptSegments": [
    { "start": 0, "end": 2.82, "text": "Here's how you're gonna fill your freezer with high protein veggie" },
    { "start": 2.821, "end": 5.781, "text": "pack Chipotle black bean burritos in under an hour." },
    { "start": 5.782, "end": 8.141, "text": "This is part of my series of low effort recipes" }
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "languageTag": "eng-US",
  "isAutoGenerated": true,
  "isTranslation": false,
  "originalLanguage": "en",
  "availableLanguages": ["en"],
  "subtitleUrl": "https://v16m-webapp.tiktokcdn-us.com/e653862df561a5ad0d5333f74f438cfb/6abe9191/video/tos/useast2a/…",
  "subtitleUrlExpiresAt": "2026-10-01T17:00:01.000Z",
  "note": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T16:59:24.000Z"
}

You can export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML from the Apify Console or via the Apify API.

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💰 Pricing

This Actor is pay per event (you pay per result): each video saved with a transcript costs $0.00299 on the free plan, so 1,000 videos cost $2.99, falling to $0.00255 per video ($2.55 per 1,000) on Gold and higher Apify plans. Each run also has a $0.00005 start fee per GB of memory. Videos without subtitles are not charged unless you turn on includeVideosWithoutTranscript. It runs without a proxy by default, so there is no proxy traffic to pay for. A free Apify account is enough to try it.

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❓ FAQ

What is the TikTok Transcript Scraper?

It is a TikTok transcript scraper that takes public video URLs or share links and returns each video's transcript as text and timed segments, with its language and the video's details. You can run it from the Apify Console, the API, or on a schedule.

Where does the transcript come from?

From the subtitles TikTok itself shows on the video: automatic captions generated from the speech, captions written by the creator, and TikTok's translations of them. The Actor does not transcribe audio, so a video without TikTok subtitles has no transcript.

Which videos have no transcript?

Videos without speech (music only), videos TikTok has not generated captions for, videos whose captions are turned off, and photo posts. These are not charged by default; they are listed with the reason in the VIDEOS_WITHOUT_TRANSCRIPT record of the run's key-value store.

Can I get the transcript in English?

Set language to en. For videos in another language TikTok often has an English machine translation, which the Actor returns with isTranslation: true. When a video has no English track you get the original-language transcript and a note saying so.

Do I need an account, cookies or an API key?

No. The Actor reads only what TikTok shows to visitors who are not logged in.

Do I need a proxy?

No. The default runs without a proxy. If videos come back blocked, switch the proxy setting to Apify datacenter proxies.

How many results can I get per run?

One item per video URL, so a run with 500 URLs returns up to 500 transcripts. There is no maxItems setting because each URL is a single video.

Why does the subtitle URL stop working?

TikTok signs subtitle links for about 48 hours (subtitleUrlExpiresAt). The Actor downloads the file during the run and returns the text, so the transcript itself does not expire. Turn on includeVtt to keep the original WebVTT file.

Can I schedule it or integrate it with my app?

Yes. Every Apify Actor exposes a REST API, webhooks, and integrations with Zapier, Make, Google Sheets and Slack, and can be called from an AI agent via the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to scrape TikTok?

This Actor accesses only publicly available pages. You are responsible for making sure your use complies with TikTok's terms of service and the laws in your jurisdiction.

What if TikTok changes and the Actor breaks?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with a video URL that fails, so the problem can be reproduced.

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🧩 Part of the TikTok Scraper Suite

Goldmine's TikTok Scraper Suite covers search results, posts, comments, transcripts and video files. Also try:

• TikTok Post Scraper — views, likes, shares, hashtags and author for TikTok posts
• TikTok Comments Scraper — comments and reply threads from public TikTok videos
• TikTok Search Scraper — find TikTok videos by keyword, with full stats per result
• TikTok Video Downloader — download TikTok videos as MP4 files
• Scrape TikTok Post Details — likes, plays, comments, cover and video links for TikTok posts

See every Goldmine Actor at apify.com/logical_scrapers.

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📷 Image Credit

Image credit: tiktok.com

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📬 Contact & Support

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