# TikTok Transcript Scraper — Subtitles in Every Language (`memo23/tiktok-transcript-scraper`) Actor

Extract full transcripts and subtitles from TikTok videos in every available language — auto-generated (ASR), machine-translated, and creator captions. Get plain text, timestamped segments, and video metadata. No login or cookies. Works with URLs, short links, or IDs. JSON, CSV, Excel.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/memo23/tiktok-transcript-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Muhamed Didovic](https://apify.com/memo23) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 transcripts

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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# README

## TikTok Transcript Scraper

Extract the **full transcript of any public TikTok video — in every language TikTok has**. One video link in, clean text out: auto-generated speech-recognition captions (ASR), TikTok's machine translations (MT), and creator-uploaded subtitles, each as its own row with a plain-text transcript, timestamped segments, and the video's engagement stats. No login, no cookies, no browser.

![How it works](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muhamed-didovic/muhamed-didovic.github.io/main/assets/how-it-works-tiktok-transcript.png)

### Why Use This Scraper?

- **Every language, not just one** — a video with six caption tracks returns six rows: the original ASR plus every translation TikTok generated. Filter to just the languages you need.
- **Timestamped segments included** — each row carries a `segments` array (`start`, `end`, `text`) precise to the millisecond, ready for subtitling, clipping, or search indexing.
- **Know what you're reading** — every row is flagged `ASR`, `MT`, or `creator`, so you can separate spoken-word originals from machine translations.
- **Video metadata for free** — author, caption, publish date, duration, plays, likes, comments, shares, and saves ride along on every row at no extra charge.
- **Raw WebVTT on demand** — switch on `includeVtt` and get the original subtitle file text, ready for any video editor or player.
- **Bulk-friendly and honest** — mix URLs, share links, and bare IDs in one run. Private, deleted, and caption-less videos yield a clear error item instead of a failed run.

### Overview

This Actor takes a list of TikTok videos and returns their subtitle tracks as structured transcripts. One dataset row = one video-language combination. It works with public videos only and requires no TikTok account.

### Supported Inputs

| Input form | Example |
|---|---|
| Full video URL | `https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/723987198712345678` |
| Share link | `https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMabc123/`, `https://vt.tiktok.com/xyz/` |
| Bare video ID | `723987198712345678` |

All three forms can be mixed freely in the `videos` list.

### Use Cases

- **Content repurposing** — turn spoken TikTok videos into blog posts, newsletters, or captions for other platforms.
- **AI & LLM pipelines** — feed clean video text into summarizers, RAG systems, and agents instead of transcribing audio yourself.
- **Trend & competitor research** — analyze what creators in your niche actually *say*, at scale, across languages.
- **Brand safety & compliance** — audit influencer scripts and sponsored-content disclosures in written form.
- **Accessibility & localization** — pull existing translations to bootstrap subtitles for your own edits.
- **Search & discovery** — index transcripts to make a video library searchable by spoken content.

### How It Works

1. **Resolve** — every input is normalized to a numeric video ID. Share links are followed for free before any paid lookup happens.
2. **Extract** — the video's caption tracks are collected: ASR originals, machine translations, and creator uploads, with an optional language filter.
3. **Deliver** — each track's subtitle file is downloaded and parsed into a plain-text transcript plus timestamped segments, and written as one dataset row.

### Input Configuration

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `videos` | array | — (required) | TikTok video URLs, share links, or bare numeric IDs. |
| `languages` | array | all | Optional filter, prefix-matched — `["eng"]` matches `eng-US`. One row per matching language. |
| `includeVtt` | boolean | `false` | Include the raw WebVTT subtitle text in each row (`vtt` field). |

Example input:

```json
{
    "videos": [
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@easyenglishwithfun/video/7607978879944379670",
        "https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMabc123/",
        "7673836093183151363"
    ],
    "languages": ["eng"],
    "includeVtt": false
}
```

### Output Overview

One row per video per language. A 3-language video produces 3 rows, each carrying the full video metadata plus that language's transcript. Videos that cannot be delivered (private, deleted, no captions) produce a single error item with a `message` explaining why — the run itself still succeeds.

### Output Samples

Transcript row (trimmed):

```json
{
    "videoId": "7607978879944379670",
    "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@easyenglishwithfun/video/7607978879944379670",
    "authorUsername": "easyenglishwithfun",
    "authorNickname": "Easy English with fun",
    "authorVerified": false,
    "caption": "Simple English Conversation 💬 | A Friendly Market Dialogue for Beginners 🇺🇸 #LearnEnglish #EnglishConversation …",
    "createdAt": "2026-02-17T23:23:48.000Z",
    "durationSeconds": 72,
    "playCount": 2100000,
    "likeCount": 116800,
    "commentCount": 857,
    "shareCount": 11000,
    "saveCount": 21282,
    "originalLanguage": "eng-US",
    "language": "eng-US",
    "languageId": "2",
    "source": "ASR",
    "isAutoGenerated": true,
    "isOriginalCaption": true,
    "subtitleFormat": "webvtt",
    "subtitleUrl": "https://v16-webapp.tiktokcdn-us.com/…",
    "subtitleUrlExpiresAt": "2026-08-18T14:02:35.000Z",
    "segmentCount": 24,
    "segments": [
        { "start": 0, "end": 4.6, "text": "Are you busy right now? No, I have time." },
        { "start": 4.6, "end": 7.2, "text": "Why? Could you please help me?" },
        { "start": 7.2, "end": 9.8, "text": "Yes, of course. What do you need?" }
    ],
    "transcript": "Are you busy right now? No, I have time. Why? Could you please help me? Yes, of course. What do you need? I'm very thirsty. I need some water. …",
    "transcriptDurationSeconds": 57.819,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-16T14:02:41.000Z"
}
```

Error item (video without captions):

```json
{
    "video": "7582320231775816981",
    "error": "no_captions",
    "message": "No transcript available for video 7582320231775816981 — the video has no caption track…"
}
```

### Key Output Fields

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `language` / `languageId` | BCP-47-style language code (`eng-US`, `hun-HU`) and TikTok's internal ID for this track. |
| `source` | `ASR` = auto speech recognition of the original audio, `MT` = TikTok's machine translation, `creator` = uploaded by the creator. |
| `isOriginalCaption` | `true` on the track in the video's original spoken language. |
| `originalLanguage` | The video's detected original language — even on translated rows. |
| `transcript` | The full plain-text transcript for this language. |
| `segments` | Timestamped cues: `start` / `end` in seconds (millisecond precision) + `text`. |
| `transcriptDurationSeconds` | Seconds of the video actually covered by captions. |
| `subtitleUrl` / `subtitleUrlExpiresAt` | Direct WebVTT file URL and when it expires (typically ~48 h). |
| `playCount` … `saveCount` | The video's engagement stats at scrape time. |

### FAQ

**Do I need to log in or provide cookies?**
No. The Actor never touches your TikTok account and only reads public videos.

**Which videos have transcripts?**
Any video where the creator added captions or TikTok's automatic speech recognition produced them — that covers most spoken-word content. Music-only videos and photo posts have no caption track and return a clear `no_captions` error item.

**Can I get just English?**
Yes — set `"languages": ["eng"]`. The filter is prefix-matched, so `eng` catches `eng-US` and `eng-GB`. Without a filter you get every available language as separate rows.

**Is this transcription AI? How accurate is it?**
The Actor returns TikTok's own caption tracks — the same subtitles viewers see in the app. Original-language tracks (`source: "ASR"` or `"creator"`) are typically very accurate; machine translations (`"MT"`) are TikTok's automatic translations, delivered as-is and flagged so you can tell them apart.

**What happens with a private or deleted video?**
It returns an error item explaining why, and the run continues with your other videos.

**What does it cost?**
Pay per result: one charge per transcript row delivered, plus a small per-run start fee. Error items are the only rows a failed target ever costs you. No subscription.

### Support

Found a bug or need a field added? Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab in Apify Console, or email <muhamed.didovic@gmail.com>.

### Additional Services

Need a custom TikTok or social-media scraper, enrichment pipeline, or a private version of this Actor? Custom builds available — reach out at <muhamed.didovic@gmail.com>.

### Explore More Scrapers

- **[YouTube Transcript Scraper](https://apify.com/memo23/youtube-transcript-scraper)** — the same clean transcripts for YouTube videos, with Whisper AI fallback
- **[Instagram Transcript Scraper](https://apify.com/memo23/instagram-transcript-scraper)** — transcripts for Instagram Reels and videos
- **[Video Transcripts MCP Server](https://apify.com/memo23/transcripts-mcp-server)** — YouTube & TikTok transcripts as an MCP tool for AI agents
- **[TikTok Comments Scraper](https://apify.com/memo23/tiktok-comments-scraper)** — every comment on any video, deduplicated, with commenter profiles
- **[TikTok Followers & Following Scraper](https://apify.com/memo23/tiktok-followers-scraper)** — followers, following, and suggested accounts with per-account stats

Browse the full portfolio: [muhamed-didovic.github.io](https://muhamed-didovic.github.io/)

### 🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

**Purpose:** Return the transcript(s) of public TikTok videos in every available language, with timestamped segments.

**Minimal tested input:**

```json
{ "videos": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@easyenglishwithfun/video/7607978879944379670"], "languages": ["eng"] }
```

**Output:** array of flat objects, one per video-language. Fields: `videoId`, `videoUrl`, `authorUsername`, `authorNickname`, `authorId`, `authorVerified`, `caption`, `createdAt`, `durationSeconds`, `playCount`, `likeCount`, `commentCount`, `shareCount`, `saveCount`, `originalLanguage`, `language`, `languageId`, `source` (`ASR`|`MT`|`creator`), `isAutoGenerated`, `isOriginalCaption`, `subtitleFormat`, `variant`, `subtitleUrl`, `subtitleUrlExpiresAt`, `segmentCount`, `segments[{start,end,text}]`, `transcript`, `transcriptDurationSeconds`, `scrapedAt` (+ `vtt` when `includeVtt: true`).

**Behavior & billing:** Pay-per-event — one charge per transcript row. For LLM context economy, set `"languages"` to one language so each video returns exactly one row, and read the `transcript` field. Private/deleted/caption-less videos and unresolvable links yield one error item each (`error`, `message`) instead of failing the run. No login/cookies required.

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor accesses publicly available data on TikTok for legitimate research, accessibility, market-intelligence, and business-analysis purposes. It does not log in, bypass authentication, or access private content. Use of this Actor must comply with TikTok's Terms of Service and all applicable laws, including data-protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.). The authors are not responsible for any misuse. Users must:

- Respect rate limits and avoid overloading TikTok's infrastructure
- Not use scraped data to violate user privacy or platform terms
- Process any personal data only with a lawful basis and in compliance with their jurisdiction
- Not republish scraped content in violation of copyright

We do not store scraped data; the Actor returns it directly to your Apify dataset for your authorized use. TikTok is a trademark of ByteDance Ltd.; this Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by TikTok or ByteDance.

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# Actor input Schema

## `videos` (type: `array`):

TikTok videos to extract transcripts from. Accepts full video URLs (`https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/123…`), share links (`vm.tiktok.com/…`, `vt.tiktok.com/…`), or bare numeric video IDs — mix them freely.

## `languages` (type: `array`):

Optional language filter. Only return transcripts whose language code starts with one of these values — e.g. `eng` or `eng-US` for English, `spa` for Spanish. Leave empty to get every available language (one dataset row per language).

## `includeVtt` (type: `boolean`):

Also include the raw WebVTT subtitle file text in each row (`vtt` field) — useful if you want to feed subtitles straight into a video editor or player.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "videos": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@easyenglishwithfun/video/7607978879944379670"
  ],
  "languages": [],
  "includeVtt": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `transcripts` (type: `string`):

All transcript rows (one per video per language) in the default dataset.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "videos": [
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@easyenglishwithfun/video/7607978879944379670"
    ],
    "languages": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("memo23/tiktok-transcript-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "videos": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@easyenglishwithfun/video/7607978879944379670"],
    "languages": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("memo23/tiktok-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "videos": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@easyenglishwithfun/video/7607978879944379670"
  ],
  "languages": []
}' |
apify call memo23/tiktok-transcript-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,memo23/tiktok-transcript-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/PPLMthmrIBHT5C5Il/builds/2B2Bagq6wKGhjtnfA/openapi.json