TikTok Transcript Scraper

Give it TikTok video links or IDs — get back what is said in each video, as clean text with timestamps. The transcript is TikTok's own caption track for the video, with its language and the creator's handle and caption. No login, no cookies, no proxy configuration. Accepts full links (tiktok.com/@name/video/…), share links (vm.tiktok.com/…, tiktok.com/t/…), or bare 19-digit video IDs.

You pay only for transcripts that came back. A video without captions, a photo post, or a deleted or private video produces an explanatory row and costs nothing.

Input	Video URLs, share links, or numeric video IDs — or a CSV / Google Sheet of them
Output	One row per transcript: plain text + timed segments + language, author, caption, duration
Price	$0.003 per transcript — the same on every Apify plan
Not charged	Videos without captions, photo posts, unavailable videos

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What you get

Real output from a run (NASA, 7667244788046892319):

{
  "inputOrder": 1,
  "itemType": "transcript",
  "videoId": "7667244788046892319",
  "requestedAs": "7667244788046892319",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7667244788046892319",
  "authorHandle": "nasa",
  "authorNickname": "NASA",
  "description": "Drop your questions below! 🚀",
  "createdAt": "2026-07-27T16:25:49.000Z",
  "durationSeconds": 13,
  "transcriptLanguage": "eng-US",
  "transcriptType": "auto-generated",
  "transcript": "My name is Jared Isaacman. I'm the administrator of NASA. I don't know anything about TikTok, but my team's got it covered, and they say that you should drop your questions in the chat.",
  "subtitles": [
    {
      "language": "eng-US",
      "type": "auto-generated",
      "text": "My name is Jared Isaacman. I'm the administrator of NASA. I don't know anything about TikTok, but my team's got it covered, and they say that you should drop your questions in the chat.",
      "segments": [
        { "start": 0.02, "end": 1.46, "text": "My name is Jared Isaacman." },
        { "start": 1.461, "end": 3.181, "text": "I'm the administrator of NASA." },
        { "start": 3.182, "end": 5.501, "text": "I don't know anything about TikTok," },
        { "start": 5.502, "end": 6.901, "text": "but my team's got it covered," },
        { "start": 6.902, "end": 9.681, "text": "and they say that you should drop your questions in the chat." }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "subtitlesNote": null
}

• transcript — the spoken-language track as one string.
• subtitles — every caption track TikTok has for the video, each with timed segments; type is auto-generated (TikTok's speech recognition) or machine-translated.
• transcriptLanguage — TikTok's label for the spoken language. It comes from TikTok's own language detection, which is occasionally wrong; check it before relying on it.

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Input

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7695090484124929293",
    "https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMabc123/",
    "7514320905909194030"
  ]
}

Option	Notes
videoUrls	Full links, share links (followed to the final URL), or bare video IDs. De-duplicated
listUrl	A public .csv / .txt, or a Google Sheet shared as "Anyone with the link". With several columns, only TikTok links are read
maxConcurrency	Videos fetched at the same time, 1–10 (default 3)
maxItems	Hard cap on transcripts for the run

Every row carries inputOrder (its position in your list) so results map back to your sheet. Long lists are a normal run: throttled videos are retried slowly at the end, and a migrated or resurrected run skips everything already delivered — never fetched or charged twice.

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Pricing

$0.003 per transcript, on every Apify plan — Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond. Check the Pricing tab: all six columns are identical. No start fee, no per-minute fee.

Charged once per transcript delivered. A video that turns out to have no captions is a free row, so the price you see is the price per transcript you actually get.

What you are not charged for

	What happens here
Videos without captions	One row with chargedForThis: false and the reason. Common for music-only clips and videos without speech.
Photo posts	No audio, nothing to transcribe — free row.
Unavailable videos	Deleted, private, or mistyped links — free row with TikTok's own reason.
The free plan	Same code path, same fields, same price. No demo mode, no row cap.

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What this Actor cannot do

• No speech recognition of our own. The transcript is the caption track TikTok generated for the video. If TikTok has none, you get none — we do not download the audio and transcribe it. In our own sample of 25 videos across eleven accounts, 15 had captions.
• No video lists. You bring the links; for an account's videos, collect the links first.
• For play, like, comment and share counts, use the TikTok Video Stats Scraper (it can include the transcript too, with includeSubtitles).

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How it stays working

The video page is fetched exactly as a browser without cookies would fetch it; TikTok lists the video's caption tracks in the page data, and the caption file is downloaded the same way. There is no login to get banned and no signature to reverse-engineer. Measured from a datacenter address over three rounds: the same 15 of 25 videos had captions every round, and all 48 caption downloads returned text.

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Integrating

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nick.cheng~tiktok-transcript-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"videoUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7695090484124929293"]}'

Official clients exist for JavaScript and Python; results export as JSON, CSV or Excel; and the Actor is available as a tool to AI agents through Apify's MCP server.