Douyin Video to Text

Turn a Douyin (抖音) link into text an LLM can read: a timecoded transcript, the on-screen text, and the key points.

Official website: linkdigest.dev — powered by LinkDigest, which also offers this as an MCP server and a REST API.

The problem this solves

A Douyin share link serves an app-download shell, not the post. The content is video, so there is no text in the page to scrape at all — it has to be fetched, the audio transcribed, and the frames read.

This Actor returns the post instead — a timecoded transcript, the on-screen text and the key points:

{
  "platform": "douyin",
  "author": "逸蒙的赛博空间",
  "title": "这只丑萌AI竟然月售100万美金！",
  "transcript_source": "asr"
}

Input

Field	Type	Notes
urls	array of strings	Required. v.douyin.com/… or douyin.com/video/… — share links work as-is.
format	json or markdown	json gives separate fields; markdown gives one ready-to-paste document per link.
breakdown	boolean	Optional viral breakdown (爆款拆解), one extra credit per link — see below.
maxItems	integer	Optional ceiling so a long list cannot cost more than expected.

This Actor only reads douyin links. Paste anything else and it says so rather than failing quietly. For every platform in one place — Xiaohongshu, Douyin, TikTok, YouTube, X and ordinary web pages — use apify.com/loongnian714/social-url-to-llm-text.

Viral breakdown (爆款拆解)

Tick breakdown to have each post taken apart the way a content strategist would: the hook in its first seconds (the opening words copied exactly), the structure as timed beats, the title formula, the call to action, who it is for, and a reusable template with placeholders. Every quote is checked word for word against the post and removed if it is not there; likes, comments, saves and hashtags come from the platform, not the model. It adds one credit per link and arrives as a breakdown field (and a section of the Markdown).

Output

One dataset item per link: platform, author, title, posted_at, caption, transcript ({t, text}), ocr_text, images ({description, ocr}), key_points, source_url, transcript_source, degraded, cached, credits, and with breakdown on, breakdown.

A link that cannot be read still produces an item carrying url and error. Nothing is silently dropped — a short dataset is the worst way to find out that three of your fifty links failed.

Pricing

Event	Price
digest-completed	$0.02 per link successfully read
extra-credit	$0.01 per credit beyond the first

Credits track the two things that actually cost money: images to describe and minutes of media to transcribe. One base credit covers a typical post and its first six images; each further six images adds one, each started minute of audio or video adds one, and a viral breakdown adds one.

A link that fails is never charged. Neither is a run that fails because of a problem on our side.

Notes

• Already-digested links return in about a second — anything anyone has run before is cached, and cached links cost one credit, never more.
• The heavy work runs on our servers, not on Apify: reading these platforms takes session cookies, ffmpeg, speech recognition and a vision model.
• Chinese text is returned as-is, not translated.