# Social Video Transcript Scraper - TikTok, Instagram & X (`seemuapps/social-video-transcript-scraper`) Actor

Extract accurate speech transcripts with timestamps from TikTok videos, Instagram Reels, and X videos - just paste the video URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/social-video-transcript-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Seemu Scraping](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $40.00 / 1,000 video transcripts

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Social Video Transcript Scraper - TikTok, Instagram & X

Turn any TikTok video, Instagram Reel, or X (Twitter) video into an accurate, timestamped text transcript — no login, no cookies, no browser extension. Paste the video URLs, run, and export clean transcripts ready for AI pipelines, content research, or subtitles.

### What you get

- **Full transcript** of the spoken audio as a single clean string
- **Timestamped segments** (`MM:SS` + text) for subtitles, quotes, and clipping
- **Automatic language detection** (or pass a language hint) — works across dozens of languages
- **Video metadata**: platform, video ID, author username, caption, and duration
- Mix TikTok, Instagram, and X URLs in a single run
- Export to JSON, CSV, or Google Sheets directly from the Apify console

### Use cases

- **AI & LLM pipelines** — feed spoken video content into RAG systems, summarizers, and agents
- **Content research** — analyze what top creators say, not just their captions
- **Competitor monitoring** — track messaging and claims made in video ads and organic posts
- **Repurposing** — turn viral videos into blog posts, newsletters, and social copy
- **Accessibility & subtitles** — generate caption files for videos that have none

### How to use

1. Paste one or more video URLs into **Video URLs** — TikTok videos, Instagram posts/reels, or X tweet links, in any mix
2. (Optional) Set **Spoken language** if you know it (e.g. `en`, `es`); leave on `auto` otherwise
3. Run the actor — one record per video appears in the **Dataset** tab

Supported URL formats:

- `https://www.tiktok.com/@username/video/1234567890`
- `https://www.instagram.com/reel/ABC123/` (also `/p/` and `/tv/` links)
- `https://x.com/username/status/1234567890`

### Output format

Each dataset record:

```json
{
  "inputUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@creator/video/7636592948813122847",
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "videoId": "7636592948813122847",
  "authorUsername": "creator",
  "caption": "Story time! #fyp",
  "durationSeconds": 71,
  "language": "en",
  "transcript": "Story time, how I called my teacher out in front of the whole class...",
  "segments": [
    { "start": "00:00", "text": "Story time, how I called my teacher out" },
    { "start": "00:04", "text": "in front of the whole class." }
  ]
}
```

Videos with no speech return an empty transcript. Videos longer than 30 minutes are skipped.

### Notes

- Only public videos can be transcribed.
- Billing scales with video length: a small base fee per video plus a per-minute transcription fee (rounded up to the next minute).
- Failed URLs (deleted videos, photo posts, tweets without video) produce an error record and are not charged.

# Actor input Schema

## `videoUrls` (type: `array`):

TikTok video, Instagram post/reel, or X (Twitter) tweet URLs to transcribe. You can mix platforms in one run. Maximum 50 URLs per run.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Optional ISO 639-1 language hint (e.g. 'en', 'es', 'de'). Leave as 'auto' to detect the language automatically.

## `includeSegments` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, each transcript also includes an array of timestamped segments (MM:SS + text) alongside the full transcript string.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktokcreators/video/7630922277026090254"
  ],
  "language": "auto",
  "includeSegments": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One record per video with fields: inputUrl, platform, videoId, authorUsername, caption, durationSeconds, language, transcript, segments.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "videoUrls": [
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktokcreators/video/7630922277026090254"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/social-video-transcript-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "videoUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktokcreators/video/7630922277026090254"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/social-video-transcript-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktokcreators/video/7630922277026090254"
  ]
}' |
apify call seemuapps/social-video-transcript-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/social-video-transcript-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/prVbzk4GWaRBjORus/builds/EE2BjFibQhJCMTnFv/openapi.json