TikTok Transcript Scraper: Captions and Speech to Text

How to use it: 3 steps

1. Make a free Apify accountApify is the cloud platform where our tools run. The free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. You pay Apify, not us.
2. Paste your input and press StartNo code needed: you fill in a form (the input). It already has a working example. For example: https://www.tiktok.com/@apifytech/video/7398101551744552225 in TikTok video links. Each start is one run.
3. Download the resultsWhen the run ends, the results are in a table (the dataset). Open Output, press Export and pick Excel or CSV. JSON and the API are there too.

This tool is an Apify Actor: a small program that runs on Apify. You can also run it on a schedule, for example every Monday. New to it? Read how it works, step by step and the 8 words you need first.

What it does

Get the transcript of any public TikTok video: timestamped text from TikTok captions, or speech-to-text when a video has no captions. No TikTok login, no cookies.

• the full transcript as plain text;
• segments with start and end times in seconds;
• chunks of about 1,000 characters with times, ready for AI tools;
• metadata: author, description, hashtags, date, duration, views, likes, comments, shares, saves and sound;
• a clear status and reason when a video has no text (photo post, library sound only, silence, deleted video and more).

Who uses it

Price

Pay per event: you pay for each result the tool saves, plus a small start fee for each run. The price includes Apify platform costs. Apify bills you, not us. Prices below are for the Apify free plan.

Examples

• One result: about $0.0034.
• 1,000 results: about $0.90.
• Every day 100 results, for 30 days: about $2.77 a month.

Free to try: the Apify free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. That is enough for about 5,500 results.

Prices checked on 8 November 2026. See the current price on Apify.

Questions

Details

For developers

Sample result

One result from a real test run, in JSON. Real values change from run to run. In Excel or CSV each field is a column.

{
  "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@apifytech/video/7698373675267001622",
  "videoId": "7698373675267001622",
  "status": "complete",
  "source": "captions",
  "captionType": "tiktok-asr",
  "confidence": 0.85,
  "language": "en",
  "transcript": "If I just makes it super easy to unlock that, because going to try and get a Google Maps API …",
  "segments": [
    {"start": 0.1, "end": 2.78, "text": "If I just makes it super easy to unlock that,"},
    {"start": 2.781, "end": 3.581, "text": "because"}
  ],
  "wordCount": 155,
  "noTranscriptReason": null,
  "errorCode": null,
  "hashtags": ["apify", "aiagents", "vibecoding", "mcp"],
  "createTimeISO": "2026-10-21T14:00:00Z",
  "durationSeconds": 57,
  "author": {"username": "apifytech", "nickname": "Apify", "verified": false, "followerCount": 3589},
  "stats": {"playCount": 783, "diggCount": 5, "commentCount": 0, "shareCount": 1, "collectCount": 4},
  "music": {"title": "original sound - Apify", "author": "Apify", "isOriginal": true},
  "files": null,
  "speechSecondsCharged": 0
}

Use it from code

Actor ID: cliqtomedia/tiktok-transcript. You need your Apify API token from Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("cliqtomedia/tiktok-transcript").call(run_input={
    "videoUrls": [
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@apifytech/video/7398101551744552225"
    ],
    "maxVideosPerProfile": 10
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cliqtomedia~tiktok-transcript/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"videoUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@apifytech/video/7398101551744552225"], "maxVideosPerProfile": 10}'

# pip install langchain-apify
# set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment
from langchain_apify import ApifyActorsTool

tool = ApifyActorsTool("cliqtomedia/tiktok-transcript")
result = tool.invoke({"run_input": {"videoUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@apifytech/video/7398101551744552225"], "maxVideosPerProfile": 10}})
print(result)

The cURL call waits for the results, up to 300 seconds. For longer runs, start a run (/runs) and get the results with a webhook or by checking the run. Apify API docs. LlamaIndex, MCP for AI agents and the JavaScript client: AI agents & MCP.

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