TikTok

TikTok Transcript Scraper

Get the transcript of public TikTok videos as plain text and timed segments, with its language, whether it is auto-generated, the other subtitle languages, the author and view, like, comment and share counts.

Run on Apify

What it extracts

Every field below comes from the Actor’s published dataset schema.

Field	Description	Type
`url`	Video	link
`authorUsername`	Author	text
`description`	Caption	text
`transcript`	Transcript	text
`language`	Language	text
`isAutoGenerated`	Auto-generated	boolean
`isTranslation`	Translation	boolean
`availableLanguages`	Available languages	array
`durationSeconds`	Duration (s)	number
`publishedAt`	Published	date
`playCount`	Views	number
`note`	Note	text

Input parameters

Generated from the Actor’s input schema — the same fields the Apify console shows.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`startUrls`	array	Required	TikTok videos to get transcripts for: video URLs such as https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/1234567890, or share links such as https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM.../ and https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS.../. One transcript per video.
`language`	string	Optional	Which subtitle track to return. "original" returns the language spoken in the video. A language code such as "en" or "es" returns that language when TikTok has it (often a machine translation) and falls back to the original otherwise. "all" returns the original in the main fields plus every track in "tracks".
`includeVtt`	boolean	Optional	Also return the raw WebVTT subtitle file in the "vtt" field.
`includeVideosWithoutTranscript`	boolean	Optional	Also save a result for videos that have no subtitles, with "transcript" set to null and a "note" saying why. These are charged like any other result. When off, such videos are only listed in the VIDEOS_WITHOUT_TRANSCRIPT record of the key-value store, free of charge.
`proxyConfiguration`	object	Optional	Proxy settings. TikTok serves video pages without a proxy, so none is used by default. If videos come back blocked, switch to Apify datacenter proxies.

API access

Run this Actor from your own code over the Apify API.

Inputjson

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ethan_steele_/video/7484309187241987350"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ale.vegana/video/7592801339265060103"
    }
  ]
}

REST — run and get resultsbash

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/logical_scrapers~tiktok-transcript-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.tiktok.com/@ethan_steele_/video/7484309187241987350"},{"url":"https://www.tiktok.com/@ale.vegana/video/7592801339265060103"}]}'

JavaScript — apify-clientjavascript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' })

const run = await client.actor('logical_scrapers~tiktok-transcript-scraper').call({
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ethan_steele_/video/7484309187241987350"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ale.vegana/video/7592801339265060103"
    }
  ]
})

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems()
console.log(items)

Python — apify-clientpython

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("logical_scrapers~tiktok-transcript-scraper").call(run_input={
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ethan_steele_/video/7484309187241987350",
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ale.vegana/video/7592801339265060103",
        },
    ],
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Runs are executed on Apify. Create an API token in your Apify account, then call the Actor over REST or with the official client for your language. The same input object works in the Apify console, so you can test interactively before automating.

Pricing

Pay per event — you are charged for each successfully scraped result item.

Current rates are published on the Apify listing and can change, so they are not duplicated here. See pricing on Apify

Reliability

99.4% run success rate

Measured across all public Goldmine Actors on Apify, 2026-08-24. This is an account-level figure, not a per-Actor benchmark — per-Actor speed and completeness benchmarks are not yet published. Source.