TikTok Transcript Scraper API
Extract transcripts, timestamps, and metadata from TikTok videos with a single API request. Built for AI applications, automation workflows, and large-scale data collection.
- Speech-recognized (ASR) & translated captions
- Works with any public TikTok video
- No scraping or browser automation
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See It in Action
Getting started is simple and takes just minutes. Explore the interactive examples below to see exactly how the API works before using it in your own workflow.
Pick a video
Any public TikTok video URL works the same way.
Send the request
Pick the format you'd use in your own stack, then hit Execute.
curl -X GET "https://api.socialkit.dev/tiktok/transcript?access_key=%7B%7Byour_access_key%7D%7D&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40mkbhd%2Fvideo%2F7640154535536774413"
Get the response
Clean JSON with the full transcript, timestamped segments, and subtitle/language info.
Hit Execute above to send the request and see the captured response.
Everything You Need From a TikTok Transcript API
Extract complete transcripts, timestamps, and structured metadata from any TikTok video with a single API request.
Full Transcript
Get the complete spoken text from a TikTok video in a single response, ready for AI processing, search indexing, or content repurposing.
Timestamped Segments
Receive transcript segments with start time, duration, and human-readable MM:SS timestamps for captioning, navigation, and synchronization.
Subtitle & Language Info
See which caption tracks are available and whether each one is ASR (speech recognition) or MT (machine translation).
Structured JSON Output
Get clean, developer-friendly JSON without dealing with XML files, caption formats, or complex parsing.
Transcript Metadata
Access useful metadata including word count, segment count, and source URL for analysis and reporting.
ASR & Translated Captions
Pull both TikTok's speech-recognized audio and machine-translated subtitle tracks whenever they're available.
Simple REST API
Integrate using Python, Node.js, PHP, Go, Java, Zapier, Make.com, n8n, Airtable, or any platform that supports HTTP requests.
No Browser Automation Required
Skip Puppeteer, Selenium, proxy rotation, and ongoing scraper maintenance. Send a URL and get transcript data in JSON.
What developers say
Teams shipping with SocialKit in production.
"It was very easy to set up and get going, and support was superb."
Ziv Erlichson, Founder at Plynn
"Quick, caring and efficient support!"
Thomas Puech, Designer
"Easy to connect - work's smooth and properly!"
Robert Podsiadlo, Founder at PrimeStuff
What Teams Are Building With TikTok Transcript Data
From AI applications and content repurposing to accessibility and research, transcript data powers a wide range of products, workflows, and automation systems.
Content Repurposing
Convert TikToks into blog posts, newsletters, social threads, documentation, and knowledge base articles.
AI & RAG Applications
Power AI agents, chatbots, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems with searchable video content.
Accessibility & Captions
Create captions, subtitles, searchable archives, and accessibility features from transcript data.
Trend & Content Research
Analyze what creators are actually saying across hundreds of videos, not just what the captions claim.
Language Learning
Provide text alongside audio so learners can read and listen at the same time.
Social Listening
Monitor brand mentions and discussion inside the spoken content of videos, not just the comments.
Get Started for Free
Extract transcripts, generate summaries, and analyze engagement from YouTube, TikTok, Shorts, Instagram, and Facebook at scale.
Free
- 20Credits
- Perfect for testing
- 40 requests / minute
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- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
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- Video File APIs
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Starter
- 4,000Credits
- $4.75 per 1k credits
- 80 requests / minute
- Includes All APIs
- YouTube APIs
- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
- Facebook APIs
- Video File APIs
- More Coming Soon
Standard
- 12,000Credits
- $2.42 per 1k credits
- 120 requests / minute
- Includes All APIs
- YouTube APIs
- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
- Facebook APIs
- Video File APIs
- More Coming Soon
Ultimate
- 50,000Credits
- $1.90 per 1k credits
- 360 requests / minute
- Includes All APIs
- YouTube APIs
- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
- Facebook APIs
- Video File APIs
- More Coming Soon
- Higher Rate Limits
- Priority Support
Enterprise
- 500,000Credits
- $1.02 per 1k credits
- 600 requests / minute
- Includes All APIs
- YouTube APIs
- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
- Facebook APIs
- Video File APIs
- More Coming Soon
- Higher Rate Limits
- Priority Support
Free
- 20Credits
- Perfect for testing
- 40 requests / minute
- Includes All APIs
- YouTube APIs
- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
- Facebook APIs
- Video File APIs
- More Coming Soon
Starter
- 4,000Credits
- $4.75 per 1k credits
- 80 requests / minute
- Includes All APIs
- YouTube APIs
- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
- Facebook APIs
- Video File APIs
- More Coming Soon
Standard
- 12,000Credits
- $2.42 per 1k credits
- 120 requests / minute
- Includes All APIs
- YouTube APIs
- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
- Facebook APIs
- Video File APIs
- More Coming Soon
Ultimate
- 50,000Credits
- $1.90 per 1k credits
- 360 requests / minute
- Includes All APIs
- YouTube APIs
- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
- Facebook APIs
- Video File APIs
- More Coming Soon
- Higher Rate Limits
- Priority Support
Enterprise
- 500,000Credits
- $1.02 per 1k credits
- 600 requests / minute
- Includes All APIs
- YouTube APIs
- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
- Facebook APIs
- Video File APIs
- More Coming Soon
- Higher Rate Limits
- Priority Support
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