TikTok Transcript Scraper: captions as text, SRT or VTT, with views, likes and author

Get the transcript of any public TikTok video from its link or id: the captions TikTok itself generated (speech-to-text) or machine-translated, as plain text, timestamped segments, SRT or WebVTT, in the language you ask for or in every language available. No account, no cookies, no browser.

Each row also carries the video's views, likes, comments, shares, saves, publish date, duration, caption, hashtags, music and public author data (handle, display name, verified badge, followers), at no extra cost.

Built for AI and RAG pipelines, content repurposing, trend and competitor research, subtitle workflows and social listening on TikTok.

US$ 0.80 per 1,000 transcripts. No start fee, no monthly fee. Videos without captions, deleted or private videos, invalid links and duplicates are free.

At a glance

• Price per 1,000 videos, Free plan: US$ 0.80
• Charged when the video has no captions: No
• Transcript as plain text: Yes
• Timestamped segments, SRT, VTT: All three
• Choose the language / every language: Yes / Yes
• Short links (vt.tiktok.com, vm.tiktok.com) and bare ids: Yes
• Views, likes, comments, shares, saves in the same row: Yes
• Music, hashtags, duration, author: Yes
• Transcribes videos that have no TikTok captions: No (see Limitations)

One real row

From a cloud test run on 2026-09-28 (empty input, which uses a National Geographic video). coverUrl and the long transcript are shortened here:

{
  "id": "7549930445127896333",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@natgeo/video/7549930445127896333",
  "language": "en",
  "languageCode": "eng-US",
  "source": "ASR",
  "isAutoGenerated": true,
  "isMachineTranslated": false,
  "transcript": "Digging a hole to the other side of the world. Let me show you where you'll end up. [...] Where's your antipode? Let us know.",
  "wordCount": 251,
  "requestedLanguageFound": null,
  "availableLanguages": [{"language": "en", "languageCode": "eng-US", "source": "ASR"}],
  "caption": "Ever wondered where you'd end up if you started digging a hole through the Earth? [...]",
  "hashtags": [],
  "createTime": "2025-09-14T13:07:07Z",
  "timestamp": 1757855227,
  "durationSeconds": 74,
  "playCount": 1400000,
  "likeCount": 98900,
  "commentCount": 710,
  "shareCount": 2353,
  "saveCount": 13661,
  "repostCount": 0,
  "textLanguage": "en",
  "locationCreated": "BO",
  "isAd": false,
  "coverUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/...",
  "musicMeta": {"id": "7549930669510609677", "title": "original sound", "author": "National Geographic",
                "album": null, "isOriginalSound": true},
  "authorMeta": {"uniqueId": "natgeo", "nickname": "National Geographic", "verified": true,
                 "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@natgeo", "followers": 9600000, "following": 62,
                 "totalLikes": 54800000, "videoCount": 1516},
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@natgeo/video/7549930445127896333",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T00:16:29Z",
  "error": null,
  "errorCode": null
}

With includeSegments each row adds segments:

[{"start": 0.46, "end": 2.3, "duration": 1.84, "text": "Digging a hole to the other side of the world."}, ...]

Input

Every field is optional. An empty input returns the transcripts of two public videos from the National Geographic and BBC News accounts.

{
  "videos": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@natgeo/video/7549930445127896333",
    "https://vt.tiktok.com/XXXXXXXXX/",
    "7652791912868482326"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "includeSegments": true,
  "subtitleFormats": ["srt"]
}

Price

• US$ 0.80 per 1,000 transcripts (US$ 0.0008 each). One charge per video, whatever the number of languages, segments or files you ask for. No fee per run.
• Never charged: videos without captions, deleted, private or ad-only videos, invalid links, blocked requests and duplicates.
• Examples: 100 videos with captions = US$ 0.08. 10,000 = US$ 8.00.

You can set a maximum cost per run in Apify: the Actor stops when the limit is reached and keeps what it saved.

Errors you may see

Every error is a row with id, url, sourceUrl, error and errorCode, and is never charged:

Good to know

• In our tests 23 of 39 existing videos from brand and news accounts had captions (59%). Talking videos almost always have them; music, dance and silent clips usually do not. You pay only for the ones that do.
• 41 videos took 53 seconds in one cloud run. Each video is one page request plus one small subtitle file.
• The Actor uses Apify's datacenter proxy with a fresh IP per video and, only if TikTok refuses it several times, a residential IP for that request. You pay only the per-transcript price above.
• Public author data only: handle, display name, verified badge, followers, following, total likes and video count. The author's bio, email, phone and links to other networks are never collected, and any email address, phone number or WhatsApp/Telegram link written in a caption or spoken in a transcript is replaced by [contact removed].

Limitations

• Only captions TikTok generated. The Actor returns the captions TikTok itself created (auto-generated speech-to-text and its machine translations). It does not run its own speech recognition, so videos without TikTok captions come back as NO_CAPTIONS (free).
• No search, no profiles, no hashtags. Give it video links or ids; it does not list the videos of a profile, a hashtag or a keyword search.
• Auto-generated captions can misspell names and brands, exactly as they appear in the TikTok app.
• No video download (MP4) and no comments.

FAQ

Do I need a TikTok account or cookies? No. Everything comes from TikTok's public video pages.

Which language will I get? With language empty, the original spoken language. With language set, that language if TikTok has it (often as a machine translation, source: "MT"), otherwise the original. Turn on includeAllLanguages to get all of them in one row.

Can I use it from n8n, Make, Zapier or my own code? Yes, like any Apify Actor: call it through the API with a list of links and read the dataset in JSON, CSV or Excel. Field names follow other TikTok transcript scrapers (videos, postURLs, transcript), so switching is usually a one-line change.

How do I get the transcripts of all videos of a creator? Collect the video links first (for example with a TikTok profile scraper) and pass them in videos.

Something broke or a field is missing? Open an issue on the Actor page. Issues are answered within a day.

Changelog

• 0.1 (28 Sep 2026): first version. Video links, short links and ids; preferred language or all languages; plain text, segments, SRT and VTT; views, likes, comments, shares, saves, date, duration, music, hashtags and public author data in the same row; videos without captions are free.