TikTok Transcript Scraper

Transcripts from TikTok videos: the full spoken text, timestamped segments and an SRT file in your preferred language, plus the video's caption, creator, posting date, duration and view, like, comment and share counts. Paste video links or short links, or name profiles to get their latest videos. Pay only for transcripts found: videos without speech, private or removed videos cost nothing. No login, no browser, no API key.

Other TikTok transcript actors charge for every video whether or not it had captions, or stop working when TikTok changes its page. This one reads TikTok's own caption tracks, bills only rows with text, and ends every run with a plain status line that says what came back and why.

What you get

One row per video:

Field	Example
video_id, url	7691463425599261955, the video link
author, author_name, author_url	bbcnews, BBC News, profile link
description, hashtags	the video caption and its tags
created_at, duration_seconds	2026-09-30T23:05:00Z, 64
view_count, like_count, comment_count, share_count	33200, 1414, 30, 29
status, message	ok, or why there is no transcript
language, caption_type, available_languages	eng-US, auto (or manual, or translated for a machine translation), ["eng-US (auto)"]
message	why a row is free, or that a track is a machine translation of another language
text, word_count, segment_count	the transcript as one paragraph
segments	[{start, duration, text}, ...] (on by default)
srt	subtitle file (optional)
charged	true only for rows with text

Use cases

• Content research: read what the top creators in a niche say, without watching 200 videos.
• Repurposing: turn a creator's latest videos into blog posts, newsletters or captions.
• Brand and PR monitoring: search transcripts for a product or company name.
• Ad intelligence: what hooks and claims competitors use in their videos.
• Accessibility and archiving: SRT files for every video in a campaign.
• Datasets: spoken text plus engagement counts for analysis.

How to use it

1. Paste video links (or short links) one per line, or name profiles such as @bbcnews.
2. Pick your preferred languages (default English).
3. Start the run. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read the dataset through the API.

What TikTok lets us read

Input	What you get
Video link or short link	that video, with captions when TikTok generated them
Profile	the latest 10 to 13 videos TikTok shows without a login

Caption coverage depends on the content: talking-head creators, news and education are high; music, sport and visual gags often have no speech track and come back as no_transcript for free. In a 122-video test, 69% had an English track; for talking creators it was 85 to 100%.

Cost

Transcripts	Cost
100	about $0.30
1,000	about $3.00
10,000	about $30

A small fee per run plus a fee per transcript (the table assumes $0.003). Videos with no captions, private or removed videos, and videos TikTok refused are never charged.

Scheduling and API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/oski~tiktok-transcript-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"profiles": ["@hubermanlab", "@garyvee"], "languages": ["en"], "includeSrt": true}'

Schedule it in the Apify console to keep a running transcript archive of the accounts you follow.

If something looks wrong

Status line says	What it means	What to do
Input problem: Add at least one TikTok video link	Nothing usable in the inputs	Paste a video link or a profile such as @bbcnews
Skipped '...': not a TikTok video link, short link or profile	A line was not TikTok	Remove it, or put a bare creator name under Profiles
N videos had no captions; they were not charged	TikTok generated no speech track for them	Nothing to do; music and visual videos have none
TikTok shows only the latest 13 videos of @x without a login	Profile listing is limited by TikTok	Paste links for older videos
N videos were refused by TikTok	Both proxy tiers were refused	Run again later
No en captions; this is the video's deu-DE track	The video speaks another language	Add that language to Preferred languages, or keep it

Frequently asked questions

Does it use speech recognition? No. It reads the caption tracks TikTok already generated (TikTok's own ASR, or the creator's manual captions). That is why videos without a track come back empty and free.

Can I get all videos of a profile? Not without a login: TikTok lists the latest 10 to 13. Paste video links for the rest.

Which languages? Whatever tracks TikTok has for the video: usually its own automatic captions, sometimes machine translations. Codes such as en, es, pt, de, ja and zh are matched to TikTok's eng-US, spa-ES, por-PT, deu-DE, jpn-JP and cmn-Hans-CN. A translated track always says so in caption_type and message. available_languages lists what exists per row.

Does it download videos? Never. It reads the page and the caption file only.

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