TikTok Transcript API
Turn TikTok videos into text from your code, a spreadsheet or an automation. One request per video, or 50 at once with batch.
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \ "https://api.transkrio.com/v1/transcript?url=https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/7300000000000000000"
How it works
If TikTok has captions for the video, you get them, for 1 credit. If it doesn't, Transkrio downloads the audio and transcribes it with Whisper, for 1 credit per started minute. Most TikToks are under a minute, so most cost 1 credit either way. The response tells you which one you got in source (captions or speech_to_text).
You get timestamped segments plus the full text, or ask for format=srt to get a subtitle file you can edit and re-upload.
What people build with it
- Trend and hook research: transcribe the top videos of a niche and find the hooks and phrases that repeat.
- Content repurposing: turn a creator's TikToks into blog posts, threads and newsletters. See repurposing videos into posts.
- Brand and ad monitoring: check what is said about a product, not only what is written in the caption.
- Datasets: build searchable archives or training data from short-form video.
From n8n, Make or an AI agent
The Transkrio n8n node takes a TikTok link and outputs the text, and the MCP server lets Claude or Cursor transcribe TikToks you paste in the chat. For one video, try the free TikTok transcript generator.
Also available for YouTube, Instagram Reels and podcasts, with the same key and credits.