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TikTok transcripts with the video stats on each row

TikTok already has captions for many talking videos, from its own speech recognition or added by the creator. This Actor reads those caption tracks and saves them as rows. It doesn't log in, doesn't run a browser and doesn't download the video.

Paste video links, short links, bare IDs or @creator profiles. You get one row per video with the transcript in the formats you pick (text, segments, srt, vtt), every caption language TikTok lists, and the post caption, upload date, duration and play, like, comment, share and save counts. Videos that fail come back as free rows with an error code.

$0.001 per video with a transcript · pay per result, no subscription

Price

What you get

• The transcript in text, segments with start and end times in seconds, and srt and vtt subtitle files, in any mix you pick.
• One entry per language in transcripts, and availableLanguages with every caption language TikTok lists for the video.
• Stats at scrape time in playCount, likeCount, commentCount, shareCount and saveCount, at no extra cost.
• Free error rows with a code (NO_CAPTIONS, VIDEO_PRIVATE, BLOCKED, PAGE_CHANGED and more), so one bad link does not stop the run.

Input

Set the run options in the Apify console, or send the same object through the API.

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@tedtoks/video/7704416343474441502"
  ],
  "formats": [
    "text"
  ]
}

One video as plain text. A run takes up to 1,000 video links and 50 profiles. "Max videos per run" defaults to 100, so raise it for bigger lists; videos past it get free SKIPPED rows.

Output

{
  "input": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tedtoks/video/7704416343474441502",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tedtoks/video/7704416343474441502",
  "videoId": "7704416343474441502",
  "status": "ok",
  "errorCode": null,
  "language": "en",
  "text": "We need to talk about democracy better. We're gonna ask people to put democracy over party. ...",
  "transcripts": [
    {
      "language": "en",
      "tiktokLanguage": "eng-US",
      "source": "MT",
      "autoGenerated": false,
      "captionFormat": "webvtt",
      "segmentCount": 18,
      "endSeconds": 59.976,
      "segments": [
        { "start": 0.12, "end": 2.2, "text": "We need to talk about democracy better." }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "availableLanguages": ["en"],
  "createdAt": "2026-11-04T20:30:39.000Z",
  "durationSeconds": 60,
  "authorUsername": "tedtoks",
  "authorName": "TED Talks",
  "authorFollowers": 3300000,
  "playCount": 4356,
  "likeCount": 287,
  "commentCount": 5,
  "shareCount": 3,
  "saveCount": 35,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-05T15:14:32.100Z"
}

One real row from the prefilled run on Apify on 2026-11-05 (text and segments), trimmed. source is TikTok's own label for the track, passed through as sent; ASR means TikTok's speech recognition.

Run it from your own code

The Actor takes the same input as a JSON body. This call starts a run, waits for it and returns the dataset items.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/zovo-one~tiktok-transcripts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"videoUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@tedtoks/video/7704416343474441502"], "formats": ["text"]}'

A sync call waits at most 300 seconds. For longer runs, start a run with POST /v2/acts/zovo-one~tiktok-transcripts/runs, wait for it, then read /v2/datasets/<defaultDatasetId>/items.

Limits

Up to 1,000 video links, 50 profiles and 10 languages per run. Profiles come from TikTok's public embed page, which lists about 10 of a creator's newest videos, so you get at most 10 per profile. The transcript is TikTok's own caption track; if TikTok's speech recognition misheard a word, you see the same mistake, because the Actor doesn't transcribe audio itself. TikTok's language labels aren't always right and are passed through as sent. Photo posts have no spoken audio and return UNSUPPORTED_POST. The residential proxy group isn't supported, and a run that asks for it stops right away.

Questions

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