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from $1.70 / 1,000 transcript from native captions

Short Video Transcriber - TikTok, Reels & Shorts to Text, SRT

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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Videos

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You can access the Short Video Transcriber - TikTok, Reels & Shorts to Text, SRT 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "videoUrls": [
9        "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BDf5mOfSkkw",
10        "https://www.tiktok.com/@happydoggoniall/video/7673926170710199572",
11    ] }
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("sauliusautomatesit/short-video-transcriber").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

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

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Short Video Transcriber - TikTok, Reels & Shorts to Text, SRT API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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