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Short Video Transcriber - TikTok + YouTube Shorts

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Transcribe TikTok videos and YouTube Shorts to text, timestamped segments, SRT and VTT. Uses each platform's native captions when they exist and falls back to Whisper speech-to-text when they don't. No API key, no cookies.

Pricing

from $1.70 / 1,000 transcript from native captions

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Developer

Saulius Saulenas

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Monthly active users

20 days ago

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You can access the Short Video Transcriber - TikTok + YouTube Shorts programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "videoUrls": [
12        "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BDf5mOfSkkw",
13        "https://www.tiktok.com/@happydoggoniall/video/7673926170710199572"
14    ]
15};
16
17// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18const run = await client.actor("sauliusautomatesit/short-video-transcriber").call(input);
19
20// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
21console.log('Results from dataset');
22console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
23const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
24items.forEach((item) => {
25    console.dir(item);
26});
27
28// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Short Video Transcriber - TikTok & YouTube Shorts to Text API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Short Video Transcriber - TikTok + YouTube Shorts API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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$npm install apify-client

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